This table has been expanded in this report to include most of the succulent and live feedstuffs that are used as supplements in numerous captive nonhuman primate colonies. This list is very ...
Twins are pretty rare, accounting for just 3% of births in the US these days. But new research shows that for primates 60 million years ago, giving birth to twins was the norm.
Jack M Craig, Dr. Blair Hedges, and Dr. Sudhir Kumar, all at Temple University, have built an evolutionary tree that encompasses 455 primates, every species for which genetic data are available.
According to the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, the Sumatran orangutan is on the critically endangered list ... have more than 1,000 primates, and some are in captivity.
Many primate populations and species are critically endangered. However, do trends in deforestation, climate change, bushmeat hunting, and disease provide us only despair, or is there a foundation ...
Our recent research suggests that twins were actually the norm much further back in primate evolution, rather than an unusual occurrence worthy of note. Despite the fact that almost all primates ...