News articles tagged with 'tamarin'
Wildlife Conservation Society finds wild cat mimicking monkey calls
— 9 Jul 2010 11:31 | EnvironmentIn a fascinating example of vocal mimicry, researchers from the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and UFAM (Federal University of Amazonas) have documented a wild cat species imitating…
New monkey discovered in Brazil
— 8 Jul 2009 15:33 | BiologyThe Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) announced today the discovery of a new monkey in a remote region of the Amazon in Brazil. The monkey is related to saddleback tamarins, which…
Individual primates display variation in general intelligence
— 17 Jun 2009 06:19 | BiologyScientists at Harvard University have shown, for the first time, that intelligence varies among individual monkeys within a species - in this case, the cotton-top tamarin…
Veterinarians adapt human tests for monkeys
— 11 Aug 2008 16:09 | BiologyA medical test developed to detect an overload of iron in humans has recently been adapted to screen for the condition in some distant relatives: diminutive monkeys from South America,…
Monkeys and other primates dying off due to habitat loss, hunting
— 5 Aug 2008 16:50 | EnvironmentMankind's closest relatives - the world's monkeys, apes and other primates - are disappearing from the face of the Earth, with some literally being eaten into extinction…
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