Sentences with phrase «research gibbons»
The team also found that the unregulated trading of research gibbons at the time may have even caused GALV infection found in a monkey kept as a pet in a San Francisco apartment which went on to develop lymphosarcoma.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/ Not exact matches
They found it was most likely caused inadvertently by the unregulated international trading of gibbons and laboratory work on viruses in US military and other medical research facilities.
In 1969 cases of malignant lymphoma were reported in a single colony of white - handed gibbons in a US military research facility in Bangkok, Thailand and were at the time attributed to an unknown infectious agent.
When they examined the canal structures of more than 200 mammal species, the research team found that fast, agile movers — like gibbons and leaping tarsiers — have exceptionally large canals for their size, while slow, deliberate animals like sloths have small ones.
Dr Samuel Turvey, Senior Research Fellow at ZSL, who co-chaired the major international conservation planning meeting in Hainan that produced the report, said: «Ensuring a future for the Hainan gibbon is one of the most important global priorities in mammal conservation.
It is only in the last few decades or so that the Chinese research team, led by Professor Fan Pengfei, has been able to return to Yunnan and establish a proper research programme on the gibbons of Gaoligongshan, which has allowed us to understand what these animals really are.
Only a couple of decades later, the political situation in China changed, making it almost impossible for foreign researchers to visit the country, and preventing Chinese scientists from carrying out any research themselves on gibbons.