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Although this is not the first time when a species of monkeys are spotted fishing in rivers, the discovery of a silver-haired primate in Indonesia which exhibits similar behavior is definitely a first. In the last eight years alone on at least four occasions researchers have observed long-tailed macaques capturing fi... |
11 June 2008
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Researchers from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine said in an interview yesterday that, with the help of brainwaves alone, monkeys are able to control robotic arms in order to grab onto and put food in their mouth. The technology behind the experiment could lead to the development of prosthetics powered... |
29 May 2008
09:21 GMT |
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Huntington's disease is an abnormal hereditary genetic mutation, currently incurable, which determines an increasingly fast deterioration of certain nerve cells in the brain. The disease itself is not lethal, although the complications are. The symptoms usually appear around middle age and manifest themselves th... |
19 May 2008
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Before World War II, researchers were puzzled by the eritroblastosis fetalis, a severe disease that affected newborn children and manifested through the decomposition of red blood cells. However, the disease affected certain families and only the first child (but not always) was born healthy. Researches found that th... |
5 May 2008
10:19 GMT |
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Of course, when Hollywood stars or politicians have extramarital affairs, the whole world rumbles. But if we peek into human biology, anthropology and sociology, the monogamous human appears as a very weird notion. We are mammals, and if we look to the mammalian world, just 3 to 5% of the about 5,000 species of mamma... |
12 April 2008
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Social stress induced by lower rank may be the factor that leads humans to drug consumption. At least, this is the case in monkeys, as revealed by a new research made at Wake Forest University School of Medicine and presented at Experimental Biology 2008 in San Diego. Dominant monkeys facing the same stress amount ha... |
7 April 2008
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Monkeys have a very pervert sexuality. And one of the kinkiest species is the Barbary macaques (Macaca sylvanus). A new research published in "Animal Behavior" shows that males spy around in search of other pairs having sex so that they get a chance to copulate. The same team lead by Dana Pfefferle of the German Prim... |
3 April 2008
14:06 GMT |
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These are the world's smallest monkeys. The marmosets (22 species are found in Brazil and few in adjacent tropical countries) live in both dry and wet forests. Most of them have a body 25 cm (10 in) long, with a 35 cm (14 in) long tail, while the weight is around 250 grams (0.55 pounds). The long tail, used for ... |
1 April 2008
10:10 GMT |
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The complex human speech is one of the most important traits that differentiate us from animals. It relies on our large brains, however it is not a question of size but of brain wiring, as showed by a new research published in "Nature Neuroscience." Since the 19th century, the Broca nucleus in the frontal cortex and ... |
27 March 2008
06:14 GMT |
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Today, North America is a land of prairies and oak or coniferous forests. But once, it was a tropical paradise and like any tropical environment, monkeys were present. Now, a research published in "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences" describes the earliest-known primate to inhabit North America. The 55.... |
17 March 2008
04:40 GMT |
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In the end, the first ape to walk on two feet was not the human, nor the Australopithecus, but a primate that lived 10 Ma ago. And not in Africa! Oreopithecus bamboli lived during the Miocene in an island on the current territories of Sardinia and Tuscany (Italy). Oreopithecus is believed to have evolved from Dryopit... |
21 February 2008
08:47 GMT |
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The human brain has a nucleus that differentiates human speech from background sounds. A new research published in "Nature Neuroscience" shows that monkeys too have such a nucleus that reacts selectively to the voices of other monkeys. This is a step further on understanding the neural basis of voice recognition and ... |
13 February 2008
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In the 21th century, when we thought that all that is larger than a mouse has already been described by zoologists, the surprises keep coming. A new species of uakari monkey has been described in the International Journal of Primatology. Its discoverer is the New Zealand primatologist Jean-Phillipe Boubli of the Univ... |
6 February 2008
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If you do not have a proof of our evolutionary past, here comes this tea estate Indian worker: Chandre Oram, from Alipurduar of Jalpaiguri district in West Bengal has a 13 inch (32.5 cm) long and one inch (2.5 cm) thick tail. Far from being frightening, this tail attracts thousands of poor people worshiping him as a... |
1 February 2008
14:06 GMT |
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1.These are monkeys before turning into real monkeys. 50 million years ago, the lemurs, our remote ancestors, were widespread, but clime changed and the emergence of the monkeys brought them to extinction. Some were saved in the island of Madagascar, which was just splitting from Africa. There were few mammals on the... |
19 January 2008
03:43 GMT |
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Old World monkeys refer to the family of monkeys encountered in Africa and Asia. They are closer to apes (thus humans) than the monkeys of the Americas. 1.The main characteristic of the monkeys is their ability to process complex information and make subtle comparisons, taking decisions that help them adapt to the en... |
7 January 2008
17:41 GMT |
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We regard prostitution as extremely immoral and as degrading the human beings. But it seems this is much older than we would believe. In our evolutionary history, we could trace this to more than 15 million years ago. A new research reported in New Scientists reveals that even in monkeys males pay for sex. Only that,... |
3 January 2008
14:06 GMT |
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Now we know why your female partner plays her musical score while having sex: it boosts your fertility. Judging on a lower rank on the evolutionary scale, female monkeys could shout while having sex to help their male partners ejaculate! This is the results of a research carried by a team at the German Primate Center... |
19 December 2007
14:06 GMT |
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A boisterous band of baboons carry out a daring zoo escape. It's ape anarchy and it's like up to you to stop the chimps before they make chumps out of the human race! The game takes full advantage of the DUAL SHOCK analog controller! Use both analog sticks - rotate, sling and push them down for unequal an r... |
6 December 2007
09:46 GMT |
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Homosexuality is regarded as being unnatural, but that's a paradox: nature abounds in examples of homosexual behavior in animals. Various explanations have attempted to explain homosexuality in both humans and animals. Some researches point that genes conferring homosexuality in men could deliver more fertile fe... |
17 November 2007
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The 2004 South Korean claim regarding human cloning proved false. Meanwhile, a team at the Oregon National Primate Research Center in Portland could have achieved the cloning of monkey embryos and the extraction of stem cells from them, a huge step towards human cloning. The research could be published soon in the sc... |
14 November 2007
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Scientists were taken by surprise when they found out about the existence of a new population of De Brazza's monkeys, a threatened species in eastern Africa, in Kenya, far away from the wet forests of central Africa, good news for those hoping to save the world's primates.A recent report signaled that habit... |
6 November 2007
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Cutting and burning forests are a menace to our living relatives: apes and monkeys. The last refuge of the primates is attacked, but they can also be victims of pouching and illegal wildlife trade. Constructions of roads inside the forests exposes the primates to human exploitation even more. "Primates in Peril: The ... |
29 October 2007
08:12 GMT |
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Race to victory with the DK Crew! Donkey Kong and friends have located high-powered barrel rockets, and now the battle for the king of the jungle is on. Donkey Kong is Back! One of Nintendo's most popular characters, Donkey Kong, is back with all of his friends … and a few enemies as well. Diddy Kong, Dixie Kong... |
26 October 2007
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This tamarin monkey species is called Saguinus oedipus; but despite its name (from Oedip in the Greek mythology), the sons do not kill their father, nor do they mate with their mothers. These South American little monkeys, weighing just 450 g (one pound) and being 30 cm (1 ft) long, can live up to 11 years, having a ... |
8 October 2007
15:46 GMT |
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If you thought that only some human freaks can reach orgasm through urine (a sexual deviation called urolagnia, urophilia or undinism), you'd better find out that our evolutionary relatives are 'better' than us: in capuchin monkeys, this is so for the entire species! These monkeys splash their feet and... |
24 September 2007
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This is clear, men and women are different species. And the difference is more than just physical: it goes in all inner organs, including the brain, explaining behavioral differences but also opposite desires, sensitivities, preferences...The brain is masculinized from the womb by testosterone (its lack determines th... |
4 September 2007
15:11 GMT |
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Humans, like animals, experience a fierce competition for sex. And this competition does not stop with mating, as a woman can be promiscuous. That's how sperm competition emerges. A new research has tried to see how sperm speed connects to the species' sexual behavior, while placing us amongst other primate... |
25 July 2007
14:36 GMT |
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The world "culture" has been used for centuries to differentiate people from animals. That's why many anthropologists, psychologists and philosophers refuse to apply this concept for the monkeys living in the cool mountains of Japan. Still, many researchers show behavioral and learning patterns to name these ani... |
19 July 2007
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It is known that monkeys infected us with HIV. But a new research at the University of Arizona in Tucson revealed that they did this much more recently than previously believed. The monkey HIV strain, called simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV), was found by a new genetic analysis on African green monkeys, to have fi... |
17 July 2007
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You may believe that monkeys are capable of only cheap tricks and imitation, but a new research on rhesus monkeys revealed they can handle statistics...Many students cannot...The monkeys could accurately determine which of two behaviors is more likely to reward them by summing together a series of probabilistic facto... |
4 June 2007
06:24 GMT |
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Red is hot, but you should know that most mammals do not perceive it. That's why it is a privilege that people and primates can detect it, a gift of the evolution. And soon after getting the ability to perceive red, primates evolved red and orange skin and hair, as shown by a team at Ohio University.Humans, apes... |
25 May 2007
03:05 GMT |
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What best characterizes a monkey or an ape?It's the big brain.But when researchers got a new fossil of a common ancestor of monkeys and apes (humans included), they found out that the 29 million-year-old creature has not such a big brain as expected. "The finding indicated that primate brain enlargement evolved ... |
15 May 2007
03:42 GMT |
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Monkeys do not have an articulated language, thus they do not speak. But they do possess an unarticulated simple language, are able to learn human sign languages and to make the difference between two different human languages.New investigations at Columbia's Primate Cognition Laboratory have revealed, for the ... |
24 April 2007
08:51 GMT |
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Some anthropologists name the human species "the beautiful ape" or "the beautiful monkey". Looking at some of our counterparts, I seriously doubt this, but what I really do not doubt is that we are a type of monkey. And the first monkey whose genome has been sequenced, the rhesus macaque, confirms it: we share 93 % o... |
13 April 2007
06:27 GMT |
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Today, US looks mostly like a place of prairies and oak/pine forests. But once, here was a tropical paradise and like any tropical environment, monkeys did not miss. A team of anthropologists from Lamar University investigating South Texas fossil deposits discovered, based mainly on ancient teeth, that this zone har... |
3 April 2007
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