Primates
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Articles about Primates
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Video: Chimp climbed the wall to escape the zoo
Seven chimpanzees use twigs to climb the wall and try to escape from a zoo in the US, but are then brought back to the cages.
Videos
Video: Gorilla first met her
The baby gorilla was brought into the barn and first met the mother monkey after the previous caesarean surgery.
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Video: Gorilla playing with kittens
The gorilla caresses two small cats and plays with them like members of a family.
Science Events
Survey of Quang Ngai biodiversity
The US wildlife protection organization began its study on biodiversity on May 24 in Ba To mountainous district (Quang Ngai province) on primates, rare reptiles and inse…
Scientific works
Congo established gorilla sanctuary
The Republic of Congo has just established a national park with the goal of preserving the gorillas - the country's rare primate. It is also home to some of the red-list…
Medicine - Health
Big brain makes smarter but less muscular?
Larger brains can help smarter but less muscular muscles on the body. This finding seems to be similar to a previous doctrine that the brain will favor smoking nutrients…
Medicine - Health
Chinese successfully cloned monkeys, approaching the human clone
The long-tailed monkey named Trung Trung and Hoa Hoa was born 8 and 6 weeks ago in a laboratory in China.
Medicine - Health
If this vaccine is used, one-third of primate will be saved
Although the initial results of this vaccine are very promising, changes related to new medical research regulations on primates can limit more intensive experiments.
Medicine - Health
10% of children in the world have an immune system against HIV
Natural evolution and selection have made the human body adapt to HIV.
Medicine - Health
Baboons carry pig hearts for more than two years
German and American scientists can maintain pig hearts inside a baboon for more than two years, creating a breakthrough in the field of organ transplants.
Medicine - Health
Secrets of human life expectancy
Humans and primates live long because of the ability to burn less calories each day than other mammals.
Medicine - Health
Stem cell therapy cures paralyzed monkeys
For the first time in medical history, stem cell therapy has restored its activity in a once-paralyzed primates because of a spinal injury.
Medicine - Health
Toddlers are smarter than primates
Your toddler is even smarter than an adult chimpanzee, at least in some ways, the researchers claim.