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Amazing Amazonian Monkeys [PDF]
Humans have long been fascinated with their evolutionary cousins in the primate world, monkeys. Anthony Di Fiore combines observational methods and modern technology to study the behavior and ecology of spider monkeys and woolly monkeys in the Amazon ...
Di Fiore, Anthony
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Social learning in mother-reared and "enculturated" capuchin monkeys [PDF]
This thesis explores social learning in mother-reared and “enculturated” capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella). At the outset a framework for understanding the social influence on learning is discussed, followed by a review of the social and cognitive ...
Fredman, Tamar
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Blindsight, the visually evoked voluntary responses of patients with striate cortical destruction that are demonstrated despite a phenomenal blindness, has attracted attention from neuroscientists and philosophers interested in problems of perceptual consciousness and its neuronal basis.
Cowey, A, Stoerig, P
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Anti-predator behaviour of Guereza colobus monkeys (Colobus guereza) [PDF]
Black-and-white colobus monkeys are renowned for their impressive vocal behaviour, but up to date there have been only very few systematic efforts to study this.
Schel, Anne Marijke
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The recent discovery of a rare ceiling painting in the way of the « décor de singeries » has enriched our knowledge of the ornemental Parisian art dating of the end of the Louis XIV’s reign.
Christelle Inizan
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Mutual medication in capuchin monkeys - Social anointing improves coverage of topically applied anti-parasite medicines [PDF]
This research was made possible through Wellcome Trust grants WT094440MA and WT098133A to A. Whiten. The study was begun while NC was supported by a Research Fellowship from the Fyssen Foundation and later by a John Templeton Foundation grant to AW.Wild ...
Bowler, Mark Timothy +7 more
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Are monkeys intuitive Aristotelians? Associations between target size and vertical target position in long-tailed macaques [PDF]
Different hypotheses have been put forward to explain the interaction between size perception and spatial position. To explore the evolutionary roots of these phenomena, we tested long-tailed macaques' performance in a two-choice discrimination task on a
Stefanie Keupp +3 more
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What do Diana monkeys know about the focus of attention of a conspecific? [PDF]
Converging experimental and observational evidence suggests that some non-human primates are able to co-orient with shifts in visual attention, both of conspecifics and humans. However, the underlying cognitive mechanisms involved are unclear.
Scerif, G +10 more
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The monkey's perspective [PDF]
The sequencing of the genome of a female rhesus macaque (Macaca mulatta) of Indian origin will provide us with biomedical and evolutionary insights into both humans and Old World monkeys.
Disotell, Todd R, Tosi, Anthony J
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Hôtel de Nointel. Watteau-Audran : sous le signe de Momus
House of Polytechnicians – ancient Hotel of Nointel – currently serves as a prestigous reception venue in Paris. Although these decorations of the eighteenth century were quite transformed or pastiched in the nineteenth century, the building still has an
Christelle Inizan
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