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 ...

These hunting groups typically included several ... of evolution called the social brain hypothesis, which says that primates and other animals evolved large brains to process social information ...

2010). The impact of hunting pressure on primate populations is often difficult to evaluate. Although information on the amount of harvested primates can be obtained by counting carcasses in urban ...

In October 2007 the BBPP convinced Equatorial Guinea’s president, Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, to issue a ban against the hunting, selling, and consumption of primate meat. It had been in ...

It is at risk from habitat loss and hunting. Scientists have long suspected there might be a new species in Myanmar, based on DNA extracted from the droppings of wild monkeys, but evidence has ...

The world’s largest nocturnal primate—the aye-aye—is steeped in ... any direction—serving as versatile tools for foraging, hunting and eating. As a consequence, the nocturnal aye-aye ...

What is more, primates are hunted as a source of food, for sport, and often for live capture as pets or for medicinal purposes. Hunting of primates for their meat is widespread in many parts of ...

Climate change poses severe extinction risks to primates, affecting their habitats and survival chances globally.

After nearly three decades without a mandrill birth, the Zoo said it's thrilled to have back-to-back baby monkeys that ...