We ain’t monkeyin’ around here.
Klaus Zuberbühler and team published his report of blue monkey vocalizations in the Royal Society's journal Biology Letters. The paper is titled, "Male blue monkeys alarm call in response to danger experienced by others." I don't have access to the journal, nor am I willing to pay $50 for the privileged to read it. If... Continue Reading →
This year marks the 60th anniversary of the founding of primatology in Japan, thanks to the works of Kinji Imanishi. Current Biology hosts an essay by Tetsuro Matsuzawa and William McGrew, which reviews Imanishi's contributions to the field. The essay can be found at this link, "Kinji Imanishi and 60 years of Japanese primatology." I'm... Continue Reading →
Charlie Rose interviewed Emmanuel de Merode of WildLifeDirect, Brent Stirton and Godefroid Wambale four days ago -- three men who know about the massacre of gorillas that happened last year in Virunga National Park. Their interview covers their account of the day where six gorillas were killed. I'm very pleased with this interview, and even... Continue Reading →
John Flynn, André Wyss, John Finarelli, and Karen Sears have been studying the brains of the ancestors of modern Neotropical primates and their early Old World fossil simian counterparts. They were able to determine that the brains of platyrrhines of the Americas were as small as those of the catarrhines of Africa and Eurasia, which... Continue Reading →
I used to work at the Gorilla Foundation, and am still on their organizational mailing list. This weekend they sent me an email announcing a fundraiser they setup for the Mefou Sanctuary in Cameroon on Wednesday, July 9th, 2008. Specifically the event is setup to raise money for their infant gorilla nursery. The event will... Continue Reading →
Anthropology.net blogger German Dziebel sent me this link about the dim future of orangutans in Indonesia, Brunei, and Malaysia. Afarensis has also covered this news. The results of a new survey of orangutan populations have been published in the journal Oryx. I don't have access to the early advance view of the paper, but one... Continue Reading →
