Spotlighting zoonotic strongyloidiasis: a semi-systematic review of threadworms within baboons highlights opportunities for human infections [PDF]
Infectious Diseases of PovertyBackground Both humans and non-human primates are susceptible to Strongyloides fuelleborni, a grossly underappreciated parasitic zoonotic threadworm across the world, in addition to the more widely reported Strongyloides stercoralis. This semi-systematic
Ruth Cowlishaw +4 more
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Palmaris Longus in the Anubis Baboon (Papio anubis): A Conservative Single-Tendon Pattern with Rare Distal Bifurcation [PDF]
BiologyThe palmaris longus (PL) remains insufficiently quantified in cercopithecoids (Cercopithecoidea), despite growing comparative data across primates. We examined adult archival material of the Anubis baboon (Papio anubis) to document PL presence, tendon ...
Ingrid C. Landfald +6 more
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No Evidence of Reactive Avoidance of Baboons (Papio ursinus and Papio anubis) to the Presence of Predators [PDF]
Ecology and EvolutionPredators exert strong selective pressure on prey species, shaping their behavioral adaptations. Prey species use proactive responses, such as site selection and the adjustment of daily activity patterns to anticipate and avoid predation exposure.
N. vanRooyen +5 more
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Testing semantic compositionality in baboons (Papio papio) through relearning and generalization. [PDF]
PLoS ONEThis study investigates whether baboons are capable of semantic compositionality, specifically, whether they can apply compositional rules to new situations (generalization).
Anne Reboul +3 more
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Baboon thanatology: responses of filial and non-filial group members to infants' corpses [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2020 What do animals know of death? What can animals' responses to death tell us about the evolution of species’ minds, and the origins of humans' awareness of death and dying?
Alecia J. Carter +3 more
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Gastrointestinal parasites of baboons (Papio papio) in Niokolo-Koba National Park, Senegal [PDF]
Open Veterinary Journal, 2022 Background: Primates can harbour parasites that could be pathogenic or not for humans and primates themselves. It is necessary to know the parasitological situation of the primates that are under surveillance in the park. Aim: The purpose of this study
Kacou Martial N’da +5 more
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The «Decameron Web», twenty years later: an assessment and new prospectives
Griseldaonline, 2021 The ongoing pandemic has brought Boccaccio’s masterpiece back into the limelight on account of its portrayal of the «deadly plague [...] that began somewhere in the Orient» and its descriptions of the isolation suffered by the «genteel company» of ...
Massimo Riva, Michael Papio
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Sequence Learning and Chunk Stability in Guinea Baboons (Papio papio)
Revue de Primatologie, 2023 Chunking mechanisms, the processes of grouping several items together into a single processing unit, are central to several cognitive processes in human and non-human primates and notably to the acquisition of visuomotor sequences.
Laure Tosatto, Joël Fagot, Arnaud Rey
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Is the new primate genus rungwecebus a baboon? [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2009 BACKGROUND: In 2005, a new primate species from Tanzania, the kipunji, was described and recognized as a member of the mangabey genus Lophocebus. However, molecular investigations based upon a number of papionins, including a limited sample of baboons of
Dietmar Zinner +2 more
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Feminismo/s, 2017 In this article we will look at a small but cohesive sample of plays by female dramatists of democratic Spain from the 1980’s to the present, in which the dramatic retelling of history and myth has evolved in time as it accompanied the emergence of ...
Helen Freear-Papio
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