How scratching monkeys can help us understand emotions and consciousness
Self-scratching among non-human primates is known to indicate social tension and anxiety. The two researchers from Kyoto ...
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Why humans struggle with childbirth, but snow monkeys don’t
Interestingly, recent research led by the University of Vienna in Austria has shown that, unlike humans, Japanese macaques ...
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For These Monkeys, It’s a Fight for Survival
Monkeys also get caught in traps set for pigs ... Selamatkan Yaki and the education arms of Tasikoki and the Macaca Nigra Project cooperate to try to change hearts and minds about macaques.
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The Use of Artificial Turf as a Foraging Substrate for Individually Housed Rhesus Monkeys (Macaca Mulatta)
Eight adult male rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta) were individually housed, although they had social housing experience prior to coming to the facility. They ranged in age from 7 to 10 years. Due to ...
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What's your diagnosis?: Sudden Death in an Anorectic Cynomolgus Macaque
When a biotechnology company sold the property upon which its primary animal facility was found, it moved its crab-eating macaques (Macaca fascicularis ... not only for the monkeys but also ...
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Diving and Underwater Swimming as Enrichment Activities for Captive Rhesus Macaques (Macaca Mulatta)
Anderson J R, Peignot P and Adelbrecht C 1992 Task-directed and recreational underwater swimming in captive rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta). Laboratory Primate Newsletter 31 (4): 14 Anderson J R and ...
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Ebola-infected monkeys cured with a pill, raising hopes for humans: study
All Rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) infected with Ebola for a pharaceutical study were cured when treated with a daily antiviral pill, Obeldesivir. Photo: AFP Monkeys infected with Ebola can be cured ...