Sentences with phrase «wild rhesus»
A 2007 paper in Proceedings of the Royal Society B concluded that wild rhesus macaques can understand human gestures indicating the...
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NEW DELHI — Armed with a government order and escorted by police, animal activists yesterday seized and released into the wild 50 rhesus monkeys being used for testing a new drug.
Hauser himself, a professor of psychology, human evolutionary biology, and organismic and evolutionary biology at Harvard and codirector of the school's Mind / Brain / Behavior Initiative, has analyzed the antics of tamarins, vervet monkeys, macaques, and starlings in captivity, as well as rhesus monkeys and chimpanzees in the wild.
I remember this vividly because I worked on one of the programs he mocked, an examination of the behavior and genetics of wild Himalayan rhesus monkeys.
In the first, Platt and colleagues looked at the foraging behaviors of rhesus macaques, a non-human primate species the researchers have studied both in the lab and in the wild.
Curious about how monkey onlookers respond to these tantrums, primatologist Stuart Semple of Roehampton University in London and colleagues followed a wild troop of rhesus monkeys on Cayo Santiago, an island off the coast of Puerto Rico.
In addition, we checked for TMAdV in rectal swab samples from rhesus macaques housed in the same building as the titi monkeys (n = 26) and in pooled droppings from wild rodents (n = 2) living near the titi monkey cages.
As I know from my work with free - ranging infant wild baboons in Kenya — monkeys that have a social organization similar to that of the rhesus — this regimen results in a terrible distortion of the animals» natural way of life.
The life - span of rhesus monkeys in the wild is unknown.)