June 2, 2009
Lluc, Anoiapithecus brevirostris, A New Hominoid Species from Abocador de Can Mata, Spain
By way of Afarensis is news of a new Middle Miocene hominoid species found from the Abocador de Can Mata site in Spain. It is classified as a great ape with many afropithecid and several kenyapithecine features which I’ll give an overview of in a bit. Furthermore, the specimen, IPS43000, is 11.9 million years old, [...]
May 29, 2009
A New Malaria Pathogen Found In Chimpanzees From Gabon
Plasmodium falciparum is the protozoan parasite that causes malaria in humans and ultimately the death of 2-3 million people a year. If you didn’t know, malaria is one of the most common infectious diseases and an enormous public health problem. Only one other malaria causing protozoan, a sister species of the P. falciparum parasite, P. [...]
April 26, 2009
Introducing A New Guest Blogger, Raymond Ho
As you may have noticed, it has been rather silent here for the last 5 months. I’m happy to break the silence with most excellent news of a new guest blogger to Anthropology.net & Primatology.net, Raymond Ho, of The Prancing Papio. I’ve been an avid reader of Raymond’s blog ever since he started it earlier [...]
November 19, 2008
Introducing Ruben Blijdorp, A New Editor To Primatology.net
As you may have noticed, the last book review posted on Primatology.net the other day, was not authored by me. In fact, it was authored by Ruben Blijdorp, a primatologist from Holland. He contacted me the other week expressing interest in helping out with this site. He has studied under Jan van Hooff and Liesbeth [...]
November 10, 2008
Attend The Gorilla Foundation’s Art Benefit & Silent Auction On Tues. Nov. 18th, 2008
I wanted to ask all Primatology.net readers that live in or around the San Francisco Bay Area, or will be visiting to please consider attending a fun-filled evening of art, music and delicious food in support of the Gorilla Foundation. It will be held on Tuesday, November 18, 2008 at the 111 Minna Street Gallery [...]
November 8, 2008
Check Out VBS.TV’s “Gorillas In The Midst”
VBS.TV producers were so concerned with the mass gorilla slayings that happened a year ago in Virunga, that they went to Bwindi, in southern Uganda, and made a three part documentary on mountain gorillas. It is titled, “Gorillas in the Midst.” They’ve put up their show for everyone to watch online. If you don’t know [...]
November 6, 2008
MonkeySNP: A Database of Non-Human Primate Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms
Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) are 1 base pair differences in the genetic code when compared to same sequence from another individual. Many population geneticists who study human genetics compare and contrast SNPs between different populations to understand ancestry and genaology. A new database of non-human primate SNPs, MonkeySNP, has been recently released, and was announced [...]
October 17, 2008
Photos Of San Diego Zoo’s Newborn Gorilla
San Diego Zoo welcomed the birth of a new baby gorilla last month. I just found the photos on ZooBorn, a blog that you maybe interested in if you’re into newborn animals. The details of the birth are documented on the ZooBorn post, so jump on over there to read up. Otherwise, enjoy these photos [...]
October 15, 2008
Right-Handed Bias & The Origins Of Communication
I spent a couple years studying non-verbal communication in gorillas, so to read news that there’s some breakthroughs in our understandings handedness and communication in apes made me extremely excited. The news originates from Gillian Sebestyen-Forrester‘s latest paper in the journal Animal Behaviour, “A multidimensional approach to investigations of behaviour: revealing structure in animal communication [...]
