April 2012
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Sorry about the slow posting recently.
I’m in the process of moving house, and up until a couple of days ago, I had about 100 Uni deadlines, too. Lots of stress, lots to do, too many animals in my house, and not enough time. I’ll try to post some more after Sunday, when I move. However, the internet where I am going is shocking. Don’t give up on me, I’m still here and still Primatin’.
I’m also...
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Orangutans Are Skilful Nest Builders Whose...
The sophisticated nest building skills of Orangutans exhibit a degree of technical knowledge to match those of the most talented birds, say scientists.
The great apes construct large, oval nests in tree canopies where each evening they will curl up and sleep but little is known about their mechanical design.
A year-long study of over a dozen nests on the Indonesian island of Sumatra has now...
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Dr. Derek Wildman Completes Genome Sequence Of...
A Wayne State University School of Medicine researcher is one step closer to understanding the genetic basis that enable bonobos, one of humankind’s sibling species, to learn language, play music and use rudimentary tools.
Derek Wildman, Ph.D., led a team that isolated the DNA and sequenced the genome, or whole inherited genetic make-up, of Kanzi, a bonobo based at the Bonobo Hope Great Ape...
Here is a news report on primate pets in the UK,... →
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Baboons Learn To Recognize The Difference Between...
I bet you can raed waht tihs syas, eevn tohguh smoe wrods are sracbmled. In his PhD thesis, Graham Rawlinson of the University of Nottingham showed that if one jumbles a word’s interior letters, but preserves the positions of its boundary letters, people can still read the word with more ease than one might expect. Language standardizes the position of letters in words—what linguists call...
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Ahhhh guys
I just applied for a Zoo Keeper Apprenticeship and only 2 people get it and it is quite close to where I live so I wouldn’t have to move and you gain a qualification and training in a recognised institution and I get paid for it too and omg omg if I have 1000 fingers they would all be crossed right now but I only have 8 fingers so they’ll have to do.
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Just found a group on Facebook where people are selling lemurs, macaques, marmosets and capuchins as pets. All are only a few weeks old (literally - the macaque I saw was probably only about a month old). It actually made me feel sick.
And all the comments on the pictures where like, “OMG!!1!!! SO COOTE! I WANT 1!”
Those ‘pet’ monkeys have been ripped from their mothers...
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Orangutans use Charade-Like Communication →
galdikas:
“Orangutans, of their own volition, act out incredibly detailed scenarios with their bodies, using the pantomime to communicate with humans and other apes, according to a new study.
The study, published in the latest Royal Society Biology Letters, adds to the growing body of evidence that orangutan mini charade-like displays feature characteristics of language and reveal just how...
How exactly
teenysidhe:
does one take a picture at a ZOO and not know what animal they’re photographing? It’s on a big placard, at the exhibit, where you’re standing with your camera.
I am really baffled at how often this happens. “Here are some marmosets I photographed at the zoo!” Sorry, those are capuchins. Just sayin’.
Look at this Gorilla I saw at the zoo yesterday! ….that’s an...
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Loris Trade Not So Slow
Despite global efforts to halt the growing demand for slow lorises as exotic pets, the primates continue to be offered for sale, with 50 individuals found in Jakarta’s animal markets over the past fortnight. Although totally protected under Indonesian law, slow lorises were also observed for sale in shopping malls and at a flora and fauna exhibition, designed to raise awareness of Indonesia’s...
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Prof. Finlay Examines Primate Visual System...
Deep in the Brazilian rainforests, Prof. Barbara Finlay, psychology, observes the behavior of various species of primates in order to understand the evolution and development of the how primates see. Finlay takes an “evo-devo” approach to understanding and analyzing the visual system, building from the basic concept that all evolution comes from development. Her work with primates explores the...
