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The White Monkey and the Pelejo Monkey: Primates in the Social and Cultural Configurations of the Shawi People of Northwestern Peru
The Shawi (or Chayahuita) people of the upper Peruvian Amazon have cosmological constructions of their worldview as observed on the narratives of the...
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Targeted viral adaptation generates a simian-tropic hepatitis B virus that infects marmoset cells
Hepatitis B virus (HBV) only infects humans and chimpanzees, posing major challenges for modeling HBV infection and chronic viral hepatitis. The...
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Lethal Aggression in Captive Monkeys
AbstractEstabishing the features of lethal aggression and patterns of aggressive behavior in monkeys, as well as assessing the age and sex structure...
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Use of animals in the health management of elephants in medieval period of Assam, India
There was a tradition of catching, taming and training elephants in medieval Assam for warfare, transportation, carrying loads etc. Many manuscripts...
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Analyzing Creativity in Children’s Picture Books
The purpose of this study was to examine creativity in children’s books in terms of problem solving, divergent thinking, curiosity, and growth...
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Distinction-Distinguishing
Living beings are distinctions and the most fundamental activity they engage in is distinguishing. This is what makes them unique and how inquiry...
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Functionality of two canopy bridge designs: successful trials for the endangered black lion tamarin and other arboreal species
Canopy bridges are crossing structures specific to mitigate the impact of roads on arboreal animals. Long-term monitoring of such infrastructures...
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Recent molecular evolution of hepatitis B virus genotype F in Latin America
The evolution of hepatitis B virus genotype F (HBV-F) in Latin America is not completely understood. The aim of this study was to evaluate the...
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Empirical Evidence for ב
Three bodies of empirical evidence provide support for ב. First, a recently proposed scenario for biogenesis through emergent probability in volcanic...
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Sarcoptic Mange in Wild and Domestic Animals
Sarcoptic mange is recognized as a common skin disease caused by Sarcoptes scabiei in a wide range of mammalian species. To date, the infection has...
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Phylogenetic comparative analysis of the cerebello-cerebral system in 34 species highlights primate-general expansion of cerebellar crura I-II
The reciprocal connections between the cerebellum and the cerebrum have been suggested to simultaneously play a role in brain size increase and to...
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What determines the scale of landscape effect on tropical arboreal mammals?
ContextBiodiversity patterns depend on landscape structure, but the spatial scale at which such dependence is strongest (scale of effect, SoE)...
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Environmental Effects on Nocturnal Encounters of Two Sympatric Bushbabies, Galago moholi and Otolemur crassicaudatus, in a High-Altitude South African Northern Mistbelt Montane Habitat
Temperate living primates cope with a variety of environmental stressors, which may vary by body mass. We studied two sympatric galagos, the...
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The Primate Cultural Significance Index: applications with Popoluca Indigenous people at Los Tuxtlas Biosphere Reserve
BackgroundThe study of the cultural significance (CS) of biodiversity provides key information to develop conservation strategies consistent with...
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Consistent Prevalence of Spondyloarthropathy Over 2300 Years: Ancient Egyptians and the Synchronic Baboon Catacomb
This review identifies the character of inflammatory arthritis in the Baboon Catacomb mummies, notes change in prevalence of the disease over the...
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Memories, Monkeys, and the Mapoyo People: Rethinking Ethnoprimatology in Eco-Historical Contexts of the Middle Orinoco, Venezuela
This chapter explores the uses, perceptions of, and interactions with monkeys by the Mapoyo, an indigenous society of Carib linguistic affiliation of...
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Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy: From Its Beginnings to Daniel Carleton Gajdusek
Scrapie was the original member of what has become a family of both animal and human spongiform encephalopathies. Described clearly in the eighteenth...
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Ophthalmology of Primatomorpha: Lemurs, Tarsiers, Monkeys, Apes, and Relatives
Nonhuman primates (NHP) exhibit incredible diversity in their vision with eyes uniquely adapted to their ecological niche (Plate 47.1). Eye size...
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Frugivorous Monkeys Feeding in a Tropical Rainforest: Barí Ethnobotanical Ethnoprimatology in Venezuela
The Barí, an Amerindian society in the Sierra de Perijá between Venezuela and Colombia, have a mixed subsistence economy that integrates horticulture...