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Mother–Infant Face‐to‐Face Interactions Serve a Similar Function in Humans and Other Apes

open access: yesDevelopmental Science, Volume 28, Issue 3, May 2025.
ABSTRACT In humans, mothers and infants often engage in face‐to‐face interactions, which are often considered crucial for the social transmission of information and the typical social and cognitive development of infants. In this study, we used a comparative developmental perspective to provide an assessment of mother–infant face‐to‐face interactions ...
Federica Amici   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Moving

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Primatology, Volume 87, Issue 2, February 2025.
A career in primatology of a comparative psychologist/ethologist spans teaching, mentoring, university and professional service, and research: experimental and observational studies of primates, including studies of bearded capuchin monkeys cracking nuts with stone hammers and anvils (photo courtesy of Barth Wright).
Dorothy M. Fragaszy
wiley   +1 more source

Faecal Virome Analysis of Wild Animals from Brazil

open access: yesViruses, 2019
The Brazilian Cerrado fauna shows very wide diversity and can be a potential viral reservoir. Therefore, the animal’s susceptibility to some virus can serve as early warning signs of potential human virus diseases.
Matheus A. Duarte   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Investigating infant feeding development in wild chimpanzees using stable isotopes of naturally shed hair

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Primatology, Volume 87, Issue 1, January 2025.
Mother‐offspring stable nitrogen isotope (δ15N) differences by offspring age. Data point colors are different individuals, squares are hairs collected singly, while circles are hairs collected in a group. Diagonal line shows trend line. Abstract Measuring the relative contributions of milk and non‐milk foods in the diets of primate infants is difficult
Iulia Bădescu   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Indução do Uso de Ferramentas como Enriquecimento Ambiental para Macacos-prego (Sapajus libidinosus) Cativos

open access: yesPsicologia: Teoria e Pesquisa
RESUMO Testamos o efeito de um aparato que pudesse induzir o uso de ferramentas no comportamento de seis macacos-prego cativos. Utilizamos “animal focal” para o tempo gasto em estados comportamentais gerais e estados indicativos de estresse ...
Murilo Reis Camargo   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Primates and disability: Behavioral flexibility and implications for resilience to environmental change

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Primatology, Volume 87, Issue 1, January 2025.
A photo of Nau, a Japanese macaque who was born with one eye, and the key highlights from the review article. Abstract Congenital malformations, conditions, injuries, and illness can lead to long‐term physical impairment and disability in nonhuman primates. How individual primates change their behaviors flexibly to compensate for their disabilities can
Brogan M. Stewart   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Computerized Spatial-Delayed Recognition Span Task: a specific tool to assess visuospatial working memory

open access: yesFrontiers in Aging Neuroscience, 2015
A new tablet device version (IOS platform) of the Spatial Delayed Recognition Span Task (SDRST) was developed with the aim of investigating visuospatial Working Memory (WM) abilities based on touchscreen technology.
Corina eSatler   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

“How handy was early hominin ‘know‐how’?” An experimental approach exploring efficient early stone tool use

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Biological Anthropology, Volume 185, Issue 3, November 2024.
Abstract Objectives The appearance of early lithic industries has been associated with the gradual development of unique biomechanical and cognitive abilities in hominins, including human‐like precision grasping and basic learning and/or communicating capacities.
Brienna Eteson   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Lineage-specific serology confirms Brazilian Atlantic forest lion tamarins, Leontopithecus chrysomelas and Leontopithecus rosalia, as reservoir hosts of Trypanosoma cruzi II (TcII)

open access: yesParasites & Vectors, 2016
Background Trypanosoma cruzi, the agent of Chagas disease in humans, has a vast reservoir of mammalian hosts in the Americas, and is classified into six genetic lineages, TcI-TcVI, with a possible seventh, TcBat.
Charlotte L. Kerr   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Trypanosoma cruzi transmission in the wild and its most important reservoir hosts in Brazil

open access: yesParasites & Vectors, 2018
Trypanosoma cruzi (Kinetoplastea: Trypanosomatidae) infects all tissues of its hosts, which along with humans, include hundreds of mammalian species in the Americas. The epidemiology of T.
Ana Maria Jansen   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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