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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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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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Functionally referential signals: a promising paradigm whose time has passed [PDF]
, 2012 Finding the evolutionary origins of human language in the communication systems of our closest living relatives has, for the last several decades, been a major goal of many in the field of animal communication generally and primate communication ...
Fischer, Julia, Wheeler, Brandon C
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ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS ON THE REPRODUCTION OF NON-HUMAN PRIMATES
Biotropia: The Southeast Asian Journal of Tropical Biology, 2021 The aim of this review paper is to present some aspects of environmental stress, such as climate change and food limitation that could affect nonhuman primate population due to poor reproductive performance.
Mashitah Shikh ShikhMaidin
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Characterization of wild and captive baboon gut microbiota and their antibiotic resistomes [PDF]
, 2018 Antibiotic exposure results in acute and persistent shifts in the composition and function of microbial communities associated with vertebrate hosts.
Boolchandani, Manish +9 more
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Wacana: Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia, 2022 Mentawaians sing ritual songs enshrined in archaic texts referring to particular primates and birds, while ritual and traditional dances imitate how gibbons, sea eagles, and other animals live in the natural world. Mentawaians craft sculptures of endemic
Juniator Tulius , Linda Burman-Hall
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Elephant cognition in primate perspective [PDF]
, 2009 On many of the staple measures of comparative psychology, elephants show no obvious differences from other mammals, such as primates: discrimination learning, memory, spontaneous tool use, etc. However, a range of more naturalistic measures have recently
Bates, Lucy +2 more
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Neurobiology of Disease, 1998 A 1340-bp cDNA fragment encoding the lemurian presenilin 2 protein (PS2) was isolated from aMicrocebus murinusbrain cDNA library by PCR using oligonucleotide primers based on the nucleotide sequence of the human gene.
Alphonse Calenda +7 more
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Biology and health inequality. [PDF]
, 2007 Intriguing parallels between civil servant and nonhuman primate hierarchies suggest that highly stratified societies foster health inequalities. Determining how social differences translate into chronic disease remains a challenge, but neuroendocrine ...
Brunner, E
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Of apples and oranges? The evolution of “monogamy” in non-human primates [PDF]
, 2020 Behavioral ecologists, evolutionary biologists, and anthropologists have been long fascinated by the existence of “monogamy” in the animal kingdom.
Di Fore, Anthony +2 more
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