Tools maketh the monkey
New Scientist
Pin is a Japanese macaque trained by Atsushi Iriki, head of the Laboratory for Symbolic Cognitive Development at the RIKEN Brain Science Institute in Wako, Japan. According to Iriki, Pin's remarkable abilities offer an unprecedented window ...
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Kerry McAlonan... three macaque monkeys to pay attention to rectangular spots of light, each Charlize Theron to pay millions for wearing wrong watch - 10 Oct 2008 New York, Oct 10 (IANS) Charlize Theron will have to pay perhaps $20 million ...
Wild Mammals Face Extinction: Global Assessment Paints 'Bleak Picture ...
Washington Post
He added that some areas in Vietnam and Cambodia are facing "an empty forest syndrome," as even once-populous species such as the crab-eating macaque, or temple monkey, are "actually getting vacuumed out of some areas where it was common." ...
Pictured: The amazing monkey waiters that serve tables in a Japanese ...
Daily Mail
A Japanese restaurant has changed the face of customer service by employing two monkeys to help with the table service. The Kayabukiya tavern, a traditional 'sake house' north of Tokyo has employed a pair of uniformed Japanese macaque calle...
Exotic pets pose health risks
Globe and Mail
Macaque monkey bites can give you hepatitis B. Exotic-pet enthusiasts jumped on the defensive yesterday, saying their favourite species were being unfairly maligned. "Kids get bitten by black Labs all the time," said Steve Marks of Sciensat...
Retrocopy contributions to the evolution of the human genome.
BioMed Central
In addition to their presence in human, several of the gene candidates also had potentially viable ORFs in chimpanzee, orangutan, and rhesus macaque, underscoring their potential of function. Conclusions mRNA-derived retrocopies provide raw...
Large number of Kerala animals, plants in Red List
Hindu
The endangered animals in the State include fishing cat, elephant, wild dog, lion-tailed macaque and tiger, whereas the vulnerable ones include sloth bear, brown mongoose, small-clawed otter, smooth-coated otter, dusky-striped squirrel and ...
Red alert
star.com.my
They join the proboscis monkey, pig-tailed macaque, stump-tailed macaque and orang utan which are already on the Red List. IUCN director-general Julia Marton-Lefèvre said: “Within our lifetime, hundreds of species could be lost as a result ...
Monkey waiters - cute, efficient, and no attitude
Walletpop.com
There, a pair of Japanese macaque monkeys wait on customers , taking and delivering the customer's spoken drink orders. Yat-chan and Fuku-chan, dressed in shirt and shorts, also present customers with the traditional hot towel for hand wipi...
Genetics: Scientists unravel two more strains of malaria parasite
Yahoo News
There is growing interest in a fifth parasite, P. knowlesi, which before 2004 was believed to only affect long-tailed macaque monkeys in a limited zone in rainforests in South East Asia. Some experts believe that many cases attributed to P....
