Viral baby monkey’s new behavior sparks questions about imitation.
In mammals, social behavior and social status can substantially influence the survival, reproductive performance, and health of individuals. However, it is not yet fully understood how the translation ...
Nonhuman primates are our closest living relatives, and no other group of mammals can remind us of ourselves the way nonhuman primates do. We will start this course by examining the phylogeny, ...
"Primate mothers are some of the best mothers you will find in the animal kingdom," one expert said. So what happened with ...
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The Savage Side of Primates
When people think of primates, they often picture playful monkeys, intelligent apes, or even cuddly zoo animals. Pop culture paints them as adorable, clever, and harmless. However, this oversimplified ...
Crying is one of the most recognizable human emotional signals. Tears appear when people experience grief, relief, joy, or ...
"This reader reprises 20 years of articles, originally published in Natural history magazine"--Preface. Monkey moves / Dawn Starin -- Gorilla society / Peter Veit -- Mother baboon / Joan Luft and ...
A recent study into same-sex behavior in primates finds that social organization and ecological factors, including climatic conditions, influence this behavior. In gorilla groups, same-sex relations ...
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Biologists reveal how same-sex sexual behavior may have given some primates an evolutionary advantage
Humans aren’t the only creatures engaging in same-sex sexual activities. To date, scientists have documented around 1,500 species, including whales, birds and fish, engaging in such behavior. Now, an ...
The graduate program in biological anthropology at CU Boulder offers training in several areas, including primatology, human biology, and paleoanthropology. We share an interest in human ecology, the ...
Adaptation and behavior in the primate fossil record / Callum F. Ross ... [et al.] -- Functional morphology and in vivo bone strain patterns in the craniofacial region of primates: beware of ...
A recent article in the New York Times caught my eye concerning the strong role of genes in determining the social behavior of nonhuman primates. A team of researchers at the University of Oxford ...
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