Imagine the thrill of discovering a new species of primate. For a conservationist, it's the stuff that dreams are made of. Then picture the nightmare scenario in which you're forced to watch helplessly as the habitat of that ...
Environment
Oct 10, 2019
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Scientists from the University of Leipzig and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology found that male common marmosets are able to detect the fertile phase of females based on changes in their body odor. Using ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 24, 2019
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A new species of marmoset has been discovered in the southwest of Pará State in Brazil, a discovery that, while thrilling, already has conservationists worrying about its long-term prospects.
Plants & Animals
Aug 8, 2019
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A team of Peruvian and American scientists have uncovered the 18-million-year-old remains of the smallest fossil monkey ever found.
Archaeology
Jul 26, 2019
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Anyone who has ever spent time observing wild animals in nature will know that silence is golden. Wildlife tours recommend that people stay quiet in order to see more, but research on Tibetan macaques suggests that high levels ...
Plants & Animals
Apr 3, 2019
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In speech and music, words and notes depend on each other. Humans are highly sensitive to such dependencies, but the evolutionary origins of this capacity are poorly understood. Cognitive biologists at the University of Vienna ...
Plants & Animals
Dec 19, 2018
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Evolutionary biologists have now discovered that the Pygmy Marmoset – the world's smallest monkey – is not one species but two.
Ecology
Feb 27, 2018
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From short 'tsiks' and 'ekks' to drawn-out 'phees' – all the sounds produced by marmoset monkeys are made up of individual syllables of fixed length: that is the result of a study by a team of researchers headed by Dr. ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 23, 2018
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Good fathers make for healthier kids, according to a study of some of nature's best fathers: marmosets.
Plants & Animals
Oct 2, 2017
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Researchers have demonstrated the ability to generate dopaminergic neurons in the laboratory from induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) derived from fibroblast cells of adult marmoset monkeys. This new study, documenting ...
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 8, 2017
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