A lot of scientific experiments have been conducted that demonstrate how intelligent chimpanzees are, but what about other animals? One method that has been adopted for assessing intellectual ability is relative brain size. Although the common perception is that apes, elephants...
CICASP student Rafaela Takeshita and her collaborators from the department of Ecology and Social Behavior at KUPRI and the Zoology Department at Okayama University of Science have just discovered that neonatal Japanese macaques have extremely high levels of dehydroepiandrosterone-sulfate (DHEAS), a sex steroid precursor secreted by the adrenal gland. Their findings will appear shortly in the journal General and Comparative Endocrinology .
A new study published in the American Journal of Primatology (Vol. 75(7), pp. 774-787) shows that ovulation in olive baboons ( Papio anubis ) is advertised through a complex set of sexual signals and cues displayed in several modalities.
A new study published in Nature's Open Access journal Scientific Reports has shown that foraging sequences of the world's smallest penguin exhibit a complex fractal structure through time.
Two new articles reveal that giraffe have more in common with nonhuman primates than often assumed. In the June 2013 issue of African Journal of Ecology (Vol. 51, pp. 206-216 & 376-379) CICASP Professor Fred Bercovitch and colleagues demonstrate how social relationships influence herd formation and response to death.
A new study published in the journal Scientific Reports uses well-controlled experiments on our closest relatives, the chimpanzees, to highlight important implications concerning how we humans develop our face perception system.
A one-week survey in Perlis State Park in by mammal expert Dr Shahrul Anuar (Universiti Sains Malaysia) and CICASP bat researcher Dr David Hill has turned up a new species for Malaysia.
A new study published in the journal PLoS ONE has shown that infection by parasitic nematodes may be facilitated by social contact between primate group members ( click here for the original article ).
