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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Disrupted dispersal and its genetic consequences: Comparing protected and threatened baboon populations (Papio papio) in West Africa. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 Dispersal is a demographic process that can potentially counterbalance the negative impacts of anthropogenic habitat fragmentation. However, mechanisms of dispersal may become modified in populations living in human-dominated habitats.
Maria Joana Ferreira da Silva +7 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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High Prevalence of Antibodies against the Bacterium Treponema pallidum in Senegalese Guinea Baboons (Papio papio). [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 The bacterium Treponema pallidum is known to cause syphilis (ssp. pallidum), yaws (ssp. pertenue), and endemic syphilis (ssp. endemicum) in humans.
Sascha Knauf +8 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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BMC Ecology and Evolution, 2022 Background Gorongosa National Park in Mozambique hosts a large population of baboons, numbering over 200 troops. Gorongosa baboons have been tentatively identified as part of Papio ursinus on the basis of previous limited morphological analysis and a ...
Cindy Santander +25 more
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Geospatial Visualizations for the Study of Boccaccio
Humanist Studies & The Digital Age, 2017 This essay considers the use of mapping and mapping technologies for the benefit of those who study the work and life of Giovanni Boccaccio.
Michael Papio
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HortScience, 2021 Hydroponic leafy green production offers high productivity and quality of crops but requires good management of pH and electrical conductivity (EC) to optimize the nutrient uptake.
Daniel P. Gillespie +2 more
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