• About
  • Archives
  • Contact
  • Links

Primatology.net

~ We ain’t monkeyin’ around here.

Primatology.net

Tag Archives: monkey

Video

Brazilian Capuchin Stone Tool Use

July 12, 2016

Researchers from Oxford University, working in Brazil, found new archaeological evidence suggests that Brazilian capuchins have been using stone tools …

Continue reading →

The Semantics of Vervet Monkey Alarm Calls: Part I

March 9, 2011

Anti-predatory alarm calls are important  for social animals to alert others of approaching predators. Without the presence of “language”, some …

Continue reading →

Habitat Fragmentation’s Effect on an Endangered Indian Primate, the Lion-tailed Macaque

February 11, 2011

By: Kristin Abt The Lion-tailed Macaque (Macaca silenus) is an endangered cercopithecine primate native to the Western Ghats region of …

Continue reading →

Spotlight on the Urban Ecology of Long-tailed Macaques

January 27, 2011

The study of conservation biology, and its oft-times competitor – urbanization, is increasingly relevant to the study of primatology. As …

Continue reading →

Wild Spider Monkeys use Tools to Scratch Their Body

August 4, 2009

A Geoffroy’s Spider Monkey hanging on the branch. Photo from Primate Info Net. Wild Geoffroy’s Spider Monkeys (Ateles geoffroyi) or …

Continue reading →

Conchita, the three-week-old white-naped mangabey monkey

May 2, 2008

Pictured in this post is Conchita, a three-week-old white-naped mangabey monkey who is being hand-reared at London Zoo. Her mother …

Continue reading →

Recent Posts

  • Chimpanzees Console A Bereaving Mother
  • Population of Total Number of Mountain Gorillas Rises Above 1,000
  • On Fongoli Chimpanzee Survival Strategies & Implications of Early Human Evolution
  • Orangutans Observed Treating Pain
  • The Newly Discovered And Nearly Extinct Tapanuli Orangutan Species

Recent Comments

Total Number of Moun… on Population of Total Number of…
Elizabeth Vander Mee… on Brazilian Capuchin Stone Tool…
uberanatomynut on Do Chimpanzees Understand…
Do Chimpanzees Under… on The Possibility Of Full Protec…
Paletleme Amirliği… on Orangutan from Borneo photogra…

Top Posts

  • Orangutan from Borneo photographed using a spear tool to fish
  • The Semantics of Vervet Monkey Alarm Calls: Part I
  • Are slow lorises really venomous?
  • Philippine tarsiers: Not world's smallest primates, not marsupials

RSS Anthropology.net

  • 80,000 Year Old Le Rozel footprints in Normandy Represent Neanderthal Social Structure
  • The Discovery of a 3.8 Million Year Old Australopithecus anamensis
  • Apidima 1 – A New Look At Old Skull
  • Seven Million Years of Human Evolution
  • How did the Eastern Island Maoi Get 13-Ton Hats

Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Join 2,308 other followers

Blog Stats

  • 2,584,077 hits

A WordPress.com Website.

Cancel