From this news release, is this Science paper, “The Perception of Rational, Goal-Directed Action in Nonhuman Primates” where Justin Wood of Harvard’s Psychology department and colleagues., figure out that primates expect one another to act rationally. How?
Well Wood and crew setup two sets of experiments that tested the behavioral response of over 120 primates, including [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Tamarin’
September 7, 2007
Nonhuman Primates Expect Rational Behavior
February 28, 2007
Cotton-top Tamarin twins born in Hampshire Zoo
If you’ve never seen a cotton-top tamarin, it doesn’t take much imagination to visualize what they look like. These little monkeys, are native to Colombia, and have a tale-tell head full of white fluffy hair. The general outlook on cotton-top tamarin survival has been pretty low because,
“a combination of deforestation and exports for biomedical [...]
