Michael Wasserman discusses wild primate exposure to endocrine disruptors, such as pesticides, flame retardants, and ...

Brain tissue is among the most energetically costly in the body, and as a result, larger-brained mammals require more energy ...

A new laboratory study in mice suggests that primates like humans evolved large brains with a helping hand from microbes that ...

While the aye-aye may not warrant such an extreme response, most of this animosity seems to stem from its food habits. The diet of fruits, seeds and nuts that feeds the nocturnal primate makes it ...

With frugivorous, and possibly many folivorous primates, that feed in discrete patches — typically trees bearing food items or clumps of trees — additional group members may deplete patches ...

We should therefore be able to infer diets of fossil species based on where they fall on a plot of molar-crest length against tooth length for living primates with known food preferences (Figure 3).

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 ...