Fruit scent and observer colour vision shape food-selection strategies in wild capuchin monkeys [PDF]
, 2019 The senses play critical roles in helping animals evaluate foods, including fruits that can change both in colour and scent during ripening to attract frugivores.
Endo, Mizuki +9 more
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ESTUDO ANATÔMICO DAS ARTÉRIAS DO OMBRO DE Cebus libidinosus (RYLANDS, 2000; PRIMATES – CEBIDAE)
Ciência Animal Brasileira, 2007 As pesquisas nos Cebus libidinosus têm sido incremAs pesquisas nos Cebus libidinosus têm sido in¬crementadas, em razão do pouco conhecimento de sua morfofisiologia e por terem expressivo desenvolvimento psicomotor comparável ao dos primatas do Velho ...
Tales Alexandre Aversi-Ferreira +4 more
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Abstract knowledge in the broken-string problem : evidence from nonhuman primates and pre-schoolers [PDF]
, 2014 There was funding from the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851.There is still large controversy about whether abstract knowledge of physical problems is uniquely human.
Albiach-Serrano, Anna +5 more
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Cyto-, myelo- and chemoarchitecture of the prefrontal cortex of the
BMC Neuroscience, 2011 Background According to several lines of evidence, the great expansion observed in the primate prefrontal cortex (PfC) was accompanied by the emergence of new cortical areas during phylogenetic development.
Casatti Claudio A +4 more
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Preliminary study to investigate the Delboeuf illusion in ring-tailed lemurs (Lemur catta): Methodological challenges [PDF]
, 2017 Visual illusions are commonly used in animal cognition studies to compare visual perception among vertebrates. To date, researchers have focused their attention mainly on birds and mammals, especially apes and monkeys, but no study has investigated ...
Agrillo, Christian +4 more
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PLoS ONE, 2012 A fundamental challenge of morphology is to identify the underlying evolutionary and developmental mechanisms leading to correlated phenotypic characters.
Jana Makedonska +2 more
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Variation in grouping patterns, mating systems and social structure: what socio-ecological models attempt to explain [PDF]
, 2013 Socio-ecological models aim to predict the variation in social systems based on a limited number of ecological parameters. Since the 1960s, the original model has taken two paths: one relating to grouping patterns and mating systems and one relating to ...
Andreas Koenig +19 more
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Acta Scientiarum: Biological Sciences, 2008 Este trabalho utilizou 8 espécimes adultos de Cebus apella para caracterização anatômica de músculos do antebraço. Os animais foram doados pelo Instituto Brasileiro de Meio Ambiente e Recursos Naturais Renováveis (Ibama), de Sete Lagoas, Estado de Minas ...
Tales Alexandre Aversi-Ferreira +4 more
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Visible spatial contiguity of social information and reward affects social learning in brown capuchins (Sapajus apella) and children (Homo sapiens) [PDF]
, 2017 Animal social learning is typically studied experimentally by the presentation of artificial foraging tasks. Although productive, results are often variable even for the same species. We present and test the hypothesis that one cause of variation is that
Whiten, Andrew, Wood, Lara A.
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Journal of Venomous Animals and Toxins including Tropical Diseases, 2009 Leishmania sp. infection was investigated in wild animals from the Ingá Park, in the municipality of Maringá, Paraná state, Brazil, where American cutaneous leishmaniasis (ACL) is an endemic disease.
EM Voltarelli +5 more
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