Drawing on the latest advances in spatial analysis tools, this book offers practical guidance on applying geographic information systems (GIS) to central questions in primatology. An initial ...

Primatology is an area of science with one of the highest proportions of women to men Caitlin Starowicz, Producer, She Walks with Apes When it came to choosing three people whom he’d send to ...

I recommend it highly. The volume is unique in addressing both the ‘how to” and “why’ issues in field primatology, and covers topics from ethics in field research to how to set up a field site, from ...

One of the most fascinating periods in the evolution of the human lineage is the appearance of the first ancestors capable of bipedalism. Knowing the type of locomotion used by many fossil species ...

All but four of the rhesus macaque monkeys who escaped from a South Carolina lab have been recovered as of Monday.

Now, a paper published in the American Journal of Primatology provides new insights into how and when bipedal locomotion appeared during human evolution. Professor Josep M. Potau, from the Human ...

Scientists now know how many bonobos live in one of the largest pristine tropical forests, a place believed to be the world's ...

We are an interdisciplinary lab group, with shared interest in how human-caused environmental change is influencing animals, especially nonhuman primates. Our primate-focused research is mostly based ...

Some monkeys housed in research facilities develop abnormal behavior ranging from stereotypic to the more serious condition of self-injurious behavior (SIB). We initially sought to understand how and ...