"She had two options: here, or the San Antonio Zoo." Tislow has amassed her own jungle, with 10 primates under her roof. But it's not all fun and games. She uses her social media platforms for ...

Great emphasis has been placed on the importance of captive nonhuman primates (e.g., Novak & Suomi, 1991). Chimpanzees, like most other primates, have adapted to a social setting. With a naturally ...

A kindergartner frolics on a jungle gym during a festival in Louisville ... that play-climbing is a universal behavior among young primates. Other researchers have found ample evidence of climbing ...

What features distinguish primates from other mammals? This question is of central importance to Biological Anthropology - the study of primate adaptation and evolution. In addition to having ...

The total number of nonhuman primates in research in the United States was 71,921 in 2021 (the most recent year for which figures are available), according to the US Department of Agriculture. This ...

I immediately replied “Jungle Explorer”. Not much has changed since then. just since 2000 we have described fully 95 new species of primates I am often asked why I am so interested in primates.

Even these, however, are only the closest of our relatives within the Order Primates – a group that includes organisms as diverse as ring-tailed lemurs, tarsiers, and monkeys from both the Old ...

Having dodged torrential jungle rain showers and negotiated difficult ... If it wasn’t for the primates dashing around, I could have been in a British forest in early spring.

As you come out of the rainforests you then hit the water’s edge and you see capybaras, tapirs and guanaco,” Liz Wilson, curator of Jaguar Jungle Swamp and Primates at Audubon Zoo said.