• This website, from the National Primate Research Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, provides site visitors with not only the latest primate news, but also a lot of educational, research, and career resources related to primates and working with primates. (genengnews.com)
  • An academic video from the University of Wisconsin: "Ricki Colman, PhD, reviews the long-term health benefits of caloric restriction (CR) using data from a 20 year study in non-human primates at the Wisconsin National Primate Research Center . (fightaging.org)
  • The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) Division of Global Migration Health (DGMH) administers regulations governing the importation of nonhuman primates (NHPs) into the United States. (cdc.gov)
  • While it is true that the heading "primates in the news" is appropriate to just about all news headlines, on the Primate Info Net this phrase specifically refers to nonhuman primates. (genengnews.com)
  • Inspection of the four major holding facilities in the Philippines, including the facility that had supplied the monkeys in Virginia, did not identify unusual illness compatible with Ebola virus disease in either workers or nonhuman primates. (cdc.gov)
  • Nonetheless, CDC has developed the following interim guidelines that update and modify the procedures used in the transportation and quarantine of nonhuman primates. (cdc.gov)
  • Single-dose VSV-based vaccine protects against Kyasanur Forest disease in nonhuman primates. (bvsalud.org)
  • Editorial Note: The episodes documented in Virginia and Pennsylvania are the first known instances of Ebola-related filovirus infection in imported primates in the United States. (cdc.gov)
  • Primates are placental mammals that include gorillas, monkeys and chimpanzees, as well as humans. (howstuffworks.com)
  • Lemurs, gibbons, chimpanzees, and other primates have roughly the same proportion of brain tissue devoted to the frontal cortex as people do, say Eliot C. Bush and John M. Allman of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. (sciencenews.org)
  • The New Iberia Research Center, part of the University of Louisiana, houses more than 6,000 primates and one of the largest captive populations of chimpanzees in the world. (go.com)
  • Shu Shu got her name from a veterinarian at the now defunct Laboratory for Experimental Medicine and Surgery in Primates (LEMSIP), which housed some 300 chimpanzees and nearly 300 monkeys. (primarilyprimates.org)
  • Shumaker considers himself lucky that his mother shared his interest in great apes - a class of primates consisting of bonobos, chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans - and encouraged him to pursue his dream of working with them. (businessrecord.com)
  • The research facilities at Lund University Primate Research Station Furuvik are part of the normal housing of the orangutans and chimpanzees and allow flexible ways of studying them through dedicated solutions that have research conditions in mind. (lu.se)
  • 2018 saw Space Primates release their debut record as artists, "My Life" which has seen over three million streams across all platforms. (wikipedia.org)
  • Are humans and other primates big-brained because of social pressures and the need to think about and track our social relationships, as some have argued? (thehindu.com)
  • Ebola diseases (EBOD) are rare, but severe and often fatal viral diseases that affects humans and other primates. (who.int)
  • The Archbishop of Canterbury is asking people to pray for the primates of the Anglican Communion , who will meet in Canterbury on January 11-16. (livingchurch.org)
  • Archbishop Welby says: "As we approach the Primates' Meeting we need to recognize that we're going to be dealing with some very, very difficult issues within the life of the Anglican Communion, but also hugely difficult issues that are affecting the whole Church of Christ and our whole world. (livingchurch.org)
  • Graham Kings, Mission Theologian in the Anglican Communion, considers seven interweaving themes of the Primates' Meeting. (fulcrum-anglican.org.uk)
  • Primarily Primates' landscape is settled on 77 acres surrounded by tall, lush trees. (primarilyprimates.org)
  • The model also suggested female masturbation existed prior to the split from tarsiers - a small species of primate that has barely changed in the last 45 million years. (livescience.com)
  • Scientists announced the discovery of a new species of primate, the skywalker hoolock gibbon ( Hoolock tianxing ), in the American Journal of Primatology on Tuesday . (nationalgeographic.com)
  • A primate is a country's highest-ranking Roman Catholic churchman. (csmonitor.com)
  • CAO BANG CITY, Vietnam - Vietnam is home to some of the world's most endangered primates, many of which live in the country's mountainous, heavily forested far-northern provinces. (mongabay.com)
  • Meanwhile, Lam believes raising awareness among local communities remains a key factor in preserving the country's rare primates. (mongabay.com)
  • Certainly, evidence for tactical deception is difficult to document in wild primates where experimental manipulations can be challenging. (nature.com)
  • Consequently, the question arises as to whether this constitutes an absence-of-evidence or rather evidence-of-absence for tactical deception in wild primates. (nature.com)
  • However, these theories can't explain why wild primates masturbate, or why primates masturbate when willing partners are around, the study authors wrote. (livescience.com)
  • The oldest known primate fossils were dated to just after the extinction event 66 million years ago-suggesting some primate ancestors lived even longer ago. (nationalgeographic.com)
  • Masturbation occurs in a wide variety of animals, from rodents to reptiles, but is especially common among primates, and even more so in primates in captivity. (livescience.com)
  • The only previous documentation of transmission of this family of virus from primates to humans occurred in 1967, when African monkeys infected with Marburg virus were imported into Europe (4). (cdc.gov)
  • The primate center at OHSU should just shut down and spare monkeys and taxpayers any further pain. (peta.org)
  • Researchers reconstructed the evolutionary origins of primate masturbation and found it was an ancestral trait that goes back to the ancestor of all monkeys and apes. (livescience.com)
  • Masturbation in primates is deeply rooted in evolution, with the behavior likely going back at least 40 million years, to the ancestor of all monkeys and apes, new research suggests. (livescience.com)
  • We know that amongst the primates, the ancestor of all monkeys and apes after the split from tarsiers probably masturbated, meaning it was present around 40 million years ago," Brindle told Live Science in an email. (livescience.com)
  • In November 1989, infections caused by a filovirus closely related to Ebola virus were detected in cynomolgus (Macaca fascicularis) monkeys imported from the Philippines and held in a primate quarantine facility in Virginia (1). (cdc.gov)
  • Extensive investigation at transit points in Amsterdam and New York did not implicate cross-infection of the monkeys by African primates. (cdc.gov)
  • In December, a telephone survey of 40 other U.S. primate importers identified another shipment of cynomolgus monkeys that had arrived in Pennsylvania from the Philippines on November 28 and in which a number of unexplained deaths had occurred shortly after arrival. (cdc.gov)
  • When and why did masturbation evolve in primates? (sciencenews.org)
  • The study researchers found that masturbation is an ancient trait in primates and speculated that it may drive reproductive success. (livescience.com)
  • As a result, scientists in the past have assumed masturbation in primates was an aberrant activity produced by the stress of captivity, or simply a byproduct of a high libido, the researchers wrote in the study. (livescience.com)
  • To understand why primates engage in such "autosexuality," Matilda Brindle , an anthropologist at University College London, and colleagues created a huge dataset of primate masturbation using hundreds of publications, 150 questionnaires and observations from zoo keepers and primatologists. (livescience.com)
  • Researchers now want to gather more evidence to better understand primate masturbation - particularly among females. (livescience.com)
  • Popsicles, frozen water bottles, juice cubes and blocks, and frozen fruit are a huge hit among all primates at the sanctuary. (primarilyprimates.org)
  • This fall, Robert Shumaker joined the Iowa Primate Learning Sanctuary as head of orangutan research, the latest step in a career he dreamed of as a child. (businessrecord.com)
  • He left the Smithsonian National Zoo to join the Iowa Primate Learning Sanctuary. (businessrecord.com)
  • The intense periods of darkness of the Arctic Circle may have triggered both of these species to evolve a surprising trait compared to their other primate relatives: more robust teeth and jaws. (popsci.com)
  • The team believes that some of the adaptations that Arctic near-primate species took during another period of global warming demonstrates how some animals could evolve new traits-lessons that animals could be undergoing due to climate change today. (popsci.com)
  • How did ancient primates evolve resistance to venom? (cosmosmagazine.com)
  • Appropriate guidelines for management of newly imported primates have been sent to all U.S. primate importation and quarantine facilities, and surveillance for hemorrhagic disease in staff members and in recently imported primates is being instituted. (cdc.gov)
  • DIVISIONS in the worldwide Church are an "obscenity", the Archbishop of Canterbury told Primates on Monday, at the start of high-stakes gathering in Canterbury. (churchtimes.co.uk)
  • Archbishop Welby put his remarks to the Primates in Canterbury in the context of the "darkness, lostness, and suffering" in the world. (churchtimes.co.uk)
  • Embark on an exciting adventure as you get to go trekking with chimpanzee in Kibale National Park, housing the greatest variety and concentration of primates found anywhere in East Africa including 12 species of primates such as the rare red colobus monkey, grey-cheeked mangabey, olive baboon and red-tailed monkey. (andbeyond.com)
  • During quarantine in a primate facility in Virginia, numerous macaques died, some with findings consistent with simian hemorrhagic fever (SHF). (cdc.gov)
  • An artist's reconstruction of the newly proposed common ancestor of primates shows a mother and her clinging baby. (sciencenews.org)
  • Using a new statistical model of primate evolution, the scientists conclude that the oldest common ancestor of today's primates lived approximately 81.5 million years ago. (sciencenews.org)
  • Large brain sizes in primates may have been a result of their diverse diet, which included fruits and vegetables, rather than living complex social lives, scientists have found. (thehindu.com)
  • Scientists have found new specimens that are the oldest near-primate remains that have been found north of the Arctic Circle to date. (popsci.com)
  • Primates have been masturbating for around 40 million years, scientists say. (livescience.com)
  • Perhaps scientists hoped that bestowing a pop cultural name on these primates would help them to draw conservation attention. (nationalgeographic.com)
  • In a presentation on April 23 at the 2023 Association for Research and Vision Ophthalmology Annual Meeting, scientists at regenerative medicine biotech Life Biosciences and Harvard Medical School revealed data showing that the company's gene therapy platform could restore vision loss in primate models of NAION. (fiercebiotech.com)
  • The people who live in association with the forests which support these primate populations are generally exceedingly poor and often ethnic minorities, so they're socially and economically marginalized," Benjamin Rawson, conservation and program development director at the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) Vietnam, told Mongabay. (mongabay.com)
  • Previous descriptive work on deciduous dentition of primates has focused disproportionately on great apes and humans. (cdc.gov)
  • Paleontologists generally think that the first primates appeared about 65 million years ago, whereas genetic analyses of the DNA from living primates yield an estimate of 90 million years. (sciencenews.org)
  • This project focuses on a very distinctive fossil primate known to paleontologists since the 1960s," said lead author Kathleen Rust, a doctoral candidate in paleontology at KU's Biodiversity Institute and Natural History Museum. (eurekalert.org)
  • The findings reinforce the notion that human and primate brain evolution may be driven by differences in feeding rather than in socialisation. (thehindu.com)
  • Here we use single-nucleus RNA sequencing to profile RNA expression in 188,776 individual interneurons across homologous brain regions from three primates (human, macaque and marmoset), a rodent (mouse) and a weasel (ferret). (nature.com)
  • LCN2 also bound to hypothalamus tissue samples taken from both primate and human brains. (nih.gov)
  • Dunbar became convinced that there was a ratio between brain sizes and group sizes through his studies of non-human primates. (bbc.com)
  • When all four Yamanaka factors are expressed together, have been shown to fully reprogram differentiated human , mouse and primate cells back into pluripotent stem cells, erasing their cell identity and resetting DNA methylation to an embryonic state. (fiercebiotech.com)
  • To understand which aspects of human cognition are shared with other primates and which are uniquely human, we must understand cognition and its ontogeny in non-human primates. (mpg.de)
  • To investigate the effects of phylogeny, ecology and sociality on short-term memory ability, we tested 421 non-human primates across 41 species in a pre-registered, experimental delayed-response task. (lu.se)
  • Some 44,000 fatal emerging infectious disease common in man and non-human children travelled to towns and commuted freely back and forth primates. (who.int)
  • 70% and intermediate hosts including, non-human primates. (who.int)
  • Ebolaviruses are transmitted to people from wild animals such as fruit bats, porcupines and non-human primates. (who.int)
  • [ 2 ] An additional meta-analysis involving PEP in non-human primates demonstrated a significant association between earlier timing of PEP and reduced seroconversion rates. (medscape.com)
  • The dataset corresponding to the study is freely accessible and constitutes an important resource for studying the evolution of primate cognition. (lu.se)
  • The team then used a computer model to estimate how long the behavior had been a part of the primate repertoire. (livescience.com)
  • Where can you find CWU Primate Behavior students? (cwu.edu)
  • These results call into question "the social brain hypothesis," which has posited that humans and primates are big-brained due to factors pertaining to social living. (thehindu.com)
  • However, if the question is: 'Which factor, diet or sociality, is more important when it comes to determining the brain size of primate species? (thehindu.com)
  • Researchers, including Scott Williams, assistant professor of anthropology at NYU, examined more than 140 primate species - or more than three times as many as previous studies - and incorporated more recent evolutionary trees, or phylogenies. (thehindu.com)
  • The evolutionary roots of primates, the group of mammals that gave rise to humans, are murky. (sciencenews.org)
  • When we were working there, we had absolutely no idea that we would find an animal that was closely related to this bizarre primate from North America, but literally as soon as I picked up the jaw and saw it, I thought, 'Wow, this is it,'" Beard said. (eurekalert.org)
  • If this singular case is removed from the roster of evidence for primate tactical deception, the evidence supporting such behaviour is reduced to anecdotes from the wild and reports from captive studies (with one possible exception of 'functional' deception in the context of food competition 21 ). (nature.com)
  • Their findings, published June 7 in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B , showed that within captive primates, 74% of females and 87% masturbated. (livescience.com)
  • This ratio was mapped out using neuroimaging and observation of time spent on grooming, an important social behaviour of primates. (bbc.com)
  • Usually, the expression primate refers to the first hierarch of an autocephalous or autonomous Orthodox church. (wiktionary.org)
  • The Arctic primate relatives likely had to eat tougher harder material like nuts and seeds, as opposed to softer snacks like fruit, which could have impacted their unique dentistry. (popsci.com)
  • So named due to the belief that primates are the "highest" order of mammals/animals. (wiktionary.org)
  • The researchers found that visual function was restored nearly back to baseline in the treated primates' eyes, while it remained unchanged in untreated animals. (fiercebiotech.com)
  • For our primates and animals that enjoy splashing in water, we set up misters and sprinklers as enrichments. (primarilyprimates.org)
  • Their findings showed primates have likely been masturbating for tens of millions of years. (livescience.com)
  • Armed with their findings, they set out to see if the platform could also work for NAION in primates too. (fiercebiotech.com)
  • Complex foraging strategies, social structures, and cognitive abilities, are likely to have co-evolved throughout primate evolution," said Alex DeCasien, an NYU doctoral candidate. (thehindu.com)
  • Short-term memory is implicated in a range of cognitive abilities and is critical for understanding primate cognitive evolution. (lu.se)
  • The mangabey genus Cercocebus is genetically linked to mandrills and includes the Sanje mangabey, one of the 25 most endangered primates in the world, found in the same mountains as the newly discovered highland mangabey. (nsf.gov)
  • But the timing and appearance of this primate in the North American fossil record are quite unusual. (eurekalert.org)
  • It appears suddenly in the fossil record of the Great Plains more than 4 million years after the extinction of all other North American primates, which occurred around 34 million years ago. (eurekalert.org)
  • In the course of the work, Rust was able to draw conclusions about how Ekgmowechashala came to be discovered in Nebraska, millions of years after its fellow primates died out in the continent's fossil record. (eurekalert.org)
  • In the primate neocortex, dozens of genes showed spatial expression gradients among interneurons of the same type, which suggests that regional variation in cortical contexts shapes the RNA expression patterns of adult neocortical interneurons. (nature.com)
  • This dearth of evidence, particularly among primates, limits our understanding of the evolution of deception and punishment. (nature.com)
  • Hoolock gibbons are about 32 inches tall, have no tail, and, depending on the sex, weigh an average of 13 pounds (female) or 15 pounds (male), according to the Wisconsin Primate Research Center Library . (nationalgeographic.com)
  • Educating local communities about forest conservation and its impact on protecting rare primates is widely seen as a key measure for preservation and species recovery. (mongabay.com)
  • The KU researchers said their discovery is not only exciting in terms of discovering a new primate species from late Eocene China - but also in settling the origin story of Ekgmowechashala. (eurekalert.org)
  • At one, two, three and five weeks after inducing the NAION-like injury, the researchers assessed the primates' vision using a method called a pattern electroretinogram, or pERG, and compared it to pre-laser baseline readings. (fiercebiotech.com)
  • Though the researchers plan to assess whether their platform works on glaucoma in primates as well, they wanted to use a disease with a very precise timeline. (fiercebiotech.com)
  • The truly gluttonous should also revisit Wednesday's Weblog, " Where Else to Go for News and Analysis of the Anglican Primates' Meeting . (christianitytoday.com)
  • In an attempt to address conservative Primates' criticism of the Church of England's "drift from the biblical faith" ( News, 17 April ), he set out the case for its orthodoxy. (churchtimes.co.uk)
  • Fig. 3: Cortical LHX6 + LAMP5 + interneurons are much more numerous in primates and are molecularly similar to conserved hippocampal interneurons. (nature.com)
  • That presents major challenges for species conservation, including for the rare primates that live there. (mongabay.com)
  • The rugged terrain of Cao Bằng Province provides a habitat for rare primates, but also creates challenges for conservation. (mongabay.com)
  • Yet poverty remains a major concern, presenting opportunities for conservation and livelihood development efforts to work together to improve the outlook for both primates and people. (mongabay.com)
  • In a very Church of England manner the primates meeting in Newry, Northern Ireland, yesterday tried to put an emollient gloss on their decision to ask the offending Episcopal Church in the US and the Church of Canada to withdraw their representatives from the governing body of the worldwide church, saying that the withdrawal was only "temporary" to give them time to reconsider their position. (thinkinganglicans.org.uk)
  • For the majority of the primates called together for this meeting, however, there can be no temporising with the traditional interpretation of the scriptures. (thinkinganglicans.org.uk)
  • No primate relative has ever been found at such extreme latitudes," study co-author Kristen Miller, a doctoral student with the University of Kansas' Biodiversity Institute and Natural History Museum, said in a statement . (popsci.com)
  • Moreover, at least one study on a wild primate reports a lack of tactical deception in a context (that is, sneak copulations), where it would presumably benefit a subordinate male 22 . (nature.com)
  • Other than humans, primates are found mostly in Central and South America, Africa, and South Asia. (howstuffworks.com)
  • We also found a notable subcortical innovation: an abundant striatal interneuron type in primates that had no molecularly homologous counterpart in mice or ferrets. (nature.com)
  • The closest relatives of these species were likely a group of primates called plesiadapiforms , which were found further to the south during this time period. (popsci.com)
  • This is the main challenge to [the primates]. (mongabay.com)
  • Fig. 4: A primate striatal interneuron type not observed in mouse or ferret. (nature.com)
  • Humans, one type of primate, have more than 600 muscles, accounting for approximately 40 percent of the average male's weight. (microscopyu.com)
  • The primates combine these calls into long vocal sequences which allow them to convey messages about social cohesion or various dangers, including predation. (sciencedaily.com)