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Journal of Zoological and Botanical Gardens, 2021 Environmental enrichment is widely used to improve the quality of life of animals under human care. To successfully implement enrichment programs, it is important to evaluate their effect in different enclosure types since housing conditions may change ...
Daan W. Laméris +4 more
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Monkey metacognition could generate more insight [PDF]
Animal Behavior and Cognition, 2019 Monkeys demonstrate metacognition by avoiding memory tests when they forget, seeking information when ignorant, and gambling sensibly after making judgments. Some of this metacognition appears to be based on introspection of private mental states.
Robert R. Hampton
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Long-Term Spatial Restriction Generates Deferred Limited Space Use in a Zoo-Housed Chimpanzee Group
Animals, 2022 Background: Appropriate space is considered paramount for good captive animal welfare. There has been a concerted effort by captive institutions, particularly zoos, to provide captive animals with relatively large, naturalistic enclosures which havehad ...
Luke Mangaliso Duncan +2 more
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Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2023 The initial-dip is a transient decrease frequently observed in functional neuroimaging signals, immediately after stimulus onset, believed to originate from a rise in deoxy-hemoglobin (HbR) caused by local neural activity.
Ali Danish Zaidi +9 more
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Pathogenesis and Animal Models of Post-Primary (Bronchogenic) Tuberculosis, A Review
Pathogens, 2018 Primary and post-primary tuberculosis (TB) are different diseases caused by the same organism. Primary TB produces systemic immunity. Post-primary TB produces cavities to support massive proliferation of organisms for transmission of infection to new ...
Robert L. Hunter +6 more
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Quantitative uniqueness of human brain evolution revealed through phylogenetic comparative analysis
eLife, 2019 While the human brain is clearly large relative to body size, less is known about the timing of brain and brain component expansion within primates and the relative magnitude of volumetric increases.
Ian F Miller +2 more
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Cells, 2022 Centromeric satellite DNA (cen-satDNA) consists of highly divergent repeat monomers, each approximately 171 base pairs in length. Here, we investigated the genetic diversity in the centromeric region of two primate species: long-tailed (Macaca ...
Worapong Singchat +10 more
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Human Exposure to Herpesvirus B–Seropositive Macaques, Bali, Indonesia
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2002 Herpesvirus B (Cercopithecine herpesvirus 1) has been implicated as the cause of approximately 40 cases of meningoencephalitis affecting persons in direct or indirect contact with laboratory macaques. However, the threat of herpesvirus B in nonlaboratory
Gregory A. Engel +6 more
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Current Biology, 2008 SummaryA new worldwide survey finds that almost half of all primate species are in danger of becoming extinct. Nigel Williams reports.
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THE BEGINNINGS OF PRIMATES [PDF]
Evolution, 1968 When and from what mammalian group did primates originate? This question cannot yet be answered as accurately as students of Cretaceous and early Tertiary mammals would like. Although the evidence is still fragmentary and meager, however, the beginnings of primate radiation and their origin can be relatively well recognized.
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