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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Primate Research"”.
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Ecology and Conservation of wild Chimpanzees in the Nimba Mountain, Côte d'Ivoire and Guinea
Primate Research Group
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Monkey see, monkey do? An intercultural exploration of the dynamics between humans and non-human primates in a professional animal research setting
… humans in interaction with a group of non-human primates in a professional animal research setting. The study is a novel investigation in the field of intercultural relations, exploring the values and beliefs of a group of research employees, and the intercultural competence and sensitivity these …
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Inferring social structure and dominance relationships between rhesus macaques using RFID tracking data
This research address the problem of inferring, through Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID) tracking data, the graph structures underlying social interactions in a group of rhesus macaques (a species of monkey). These social interactions are considered as independent affiliative and dominative …
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Social and economic decision-making in Urbach-Wiethe Disease
Background: Rodent and primate research have identified the basolateral amygdala as indispensable for social decision-making. This finding has not yet been translated to humans, and has even been partially contradicted by previous findings in patients with amygdala lesions that show generous …
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Network Dynamics of Visual Object Recognition
… almost effortless. Extensive human and non-human primate research has identified putative category-selective regions within higher-level visual cortex, which are thought to mediate object recognition. Despite decades of study, however, the functional organization and network dynamics within these …
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Testosterone and behavior in female marmosets
… marmosets (Callithrix jacchus) and across the primate order. Testosterone has been primarily studied in males. Male behaviors related to mating success (competition and finding mates) are positively associated with testosterone levels in many bird and mammalian species. Conversely, male …
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Black howler monkey (Alouatta pigra) nutrition: Integrating the study of behavior, feeding ecology, and the gut microbial community.
All animals, including primates, face the challenge of obtaining sufficient energy and nutrients despite 1) variation in food availability across habitats and seasons and 2) temporal fluctuations in nutritional requirements due to life history processes. Because variation in food availability or …
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How Researchers Address Ethical Concerns Regarding Habituating Nonhuman Primates: Results of a Survey and Suggestions for Future Practice
… regarding the habituation of wild nonhuman primates. I distributed an online survey to primatologists and received 406 responses, 286 of which were used in data analysis. I used two sets of six-scale Likert scoring questions to determine respondents’ perceived ethical concerns and ethical …
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A mixed methods study of the habituation process in wild Bornean orangutans in West Kalimantan, Indonesia
… the process of increasing the tolerance of wild primates to the presence of human observers via repeated non-threatening contact. The goal of habituation is for humans to be treated like a “neutral” element in the animals’ environment so that “natural” primate behavior can be observed. Therefore, …