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Scientific Reports, 2022 Robust capuchin monkeys (Sapajus) are known for processing mechanically challenging foods, having morphological adaptations to do so. However, several populations go beyond body limitations by using stone tools to expand their food range.
Tiago Falótico +3 more
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Proximate causes of the red face of the bald uakari monkey (Cacajao calvus) [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2015 In social species, such as primates, facial appearances transmit a variety of social signals. Although it is suggested that the intense red colour of the face of the bald uakari monkey might be an indicator of health, this hypothesis still has not been ...
P. Mayor +5 more
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Pesquisa Veterinária Brasileira, 2022 : Trypanosoma spp. infection is a problem in many tropical countries, infecting several animal species, including humans. The aim of the present study was to identify the Trypanosoma species in Neotropical primates from Rio de Janeiro state and compare ...
Andresa Guimarães +10 more
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Rates of agonism among female primates: a cross-taxon perspective [PDF]
, 2013 Agonism is common in group-living animals, shaping dominance relationships and ultimately impacting individual tness. Rates of agonism vary considerably among taxa, however, and explaining this variation has been central in ecological models of female ...
Koenig, Andreas +3 more
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International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife, 2022 Toxoplasma gondii was isolated in mice from different tissues of a captive black-and-gold howler monkey (Alouatta caraya) kept in a colony at the Primatology Center of Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil, and it was genotypically characterized based on using ...
MRR Amendoeira +12 more
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Chromosome Evolution in New World Monkeys (Platyrrhini) [PDF]
, 2012 During the last decades, New World monkey (NWM, Platyrrhini, Anthropoideae) comparative cytogenetics has shed light on many fundamental aspects of genome organisation and evolution in this fascinating, but also highly endangered group of neotropical ...
Müller, Stefan +2 more
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Veterinaria Italiana, 2021 The Spix’s Saddleback Tamarin, Leontocebus fuscicollis is widely distributed across the Amazon region, but is endangered. This species is serving an important role in biomedical research in captivity.
Taianara Tocantins Gomes Almeida +6 more
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Vector-borne transmission of Trypanosoma cruzi among captive Neotropical primates in a Brazilian zoo. [PDF]
Parasit Vectors, 2016 Background: Neotropical primates are important sylvatic hosts of Trypanosoma cruzi, the etiological agent of Chagas disease. Infection is often subclinical, but severe disease has been described in both free-ranging and captive primates.
Minuzzi-Souza TT +7 more
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Neotropical primate evolution and phylogenetic reconstruction using chromosomal data
The European Zoological Journal, 2017 Platyrrhini are a group of Neotropical primates living in central and south America, and have been extensively studied through morphological and molecular data in order to shed light on their phylogeny and evolution.
F. Dumas, S. Mazzoleni
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Community ecology of the Middle Miocene primates of La Venta, Colombia: the relationship between ecological diversity, divergence time, and phylogenetic richness [PDF]
, 2010 It has been suggested that the degree of ecological diversity that characterizes a primate community correlates positively with both its phylogenetic richness and the time since the members of that community diverged (Fleagle and Reed in Primate ...
Wheeler, Brandon C., Brandon C. Wheeler
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