Introduction. In the article life of a female orangutan named "Phryne" is described. Phryne lived in Moscow Zoo 1927–1937. Now her body, preserved by taxidermy, kept Museum Anthropology Lomonosov State University. The experience keeping monkeys and apes captivity can explain influence nutrition, restriction mobility, deprivation on physical mental health human. Materials methods. from scientifi...

Abstract While early evolutionary accounts of female sexuality insisted on coyness and monogamous tendencies, evidence from the field primatology started challenging those assumptions in 1970s. Decades later, there exists many competing overlapping hypotheses stressing potential fitness benefits short-term extra-pair mating. Female mammals are now seen as enacting varied flexible reproductive s...

Book Reviews – Buchbesprechungen – Livres nouveaux J. Schmitt: Immunbiologische Untersuchungen bei Primaten. Bibliotheca Primatologica, No. 8. Karger, Basel/New York 1968. 146 p., 21 fig., 69 tab. US $ 9.40. Immunobiological studies of primate proteins have interested a number of investigators recently. Schmitt of Justus-Liebig University in Giessen presents us with a survey of the literature a...

With its focus on phenotypes, inheritance, and natural selection, evolutionary quantitative genetics constitutes a bridge between the genetic architecture of traits and evolutionary dynamics. This field has produced a vast theoretical literature with numerous empirical studies supporting the basic theoretical principles of quantitative genetics. At minimum, quantitative genetic studies require ...

Against the background of humanities writing about animal agency, this article examines primatologist Tetsuro Matsuzawa’s work with his ‘research partner’, the chimpanzee Ai, and her conspecifics at the Kyoto University Primate Research Institute and in an outdoor laboratory in Guinea from 1976 to 2016. This latest chapter in the history of Japanese primatology describes an attempt at synthesiz...

Abstract Assessments of whether closely related species should be classified into more than one genus have been a longstanding source controversy in primatology. For example, researchers hold differing opinions about cebine or two genera. In this study, we investigated craniofacial shape is reliable taxonomic indicator among cebines and statistically evaluated the magnitude differences observed...

ABSTRACT Primates exhibit unusual quadrupedal features (e.g. diagonal gaits, compliant walk) compared with other mammals. Their origin and diversification in arboreal habitats have certainly shaped the mechanics of their walking pattern to meet functional requirements necessary for balance control unstable discontinuous environments. In turn, mechanical stability probably conflict energy exchan...

This Editorial is dedicated to Professor Masao Kawai (Fig. 1), who passed away on May 14th, 2021. He served as the sixth Editor-in-Chief of Primates for 15 years (1981–1995). The following a collection memories from 20 scholars.

this important areas of primatology. Volume 2 comprises six chapters. G.-D. Hsuing, F. L. Black, and J. R. Henderson discuss primate viruses in relation to taxonomy. Certain tentatively suggested generalizations are of particular interest. The anthropoid apes, probably including the gibbon, have been found to be susceptible to all investigated virus diseases of man. The Old World simians in gen...

This review traces the development of the field of cultural primatology from its origins in Japan in the 1950s to the present. The field has experienced a number of theoretical and methodological influences from diverse fields, including comparative experimental psychology, Freudian psychoanalysis, behavioral ecology, cultural anthropology, and gene-culture coevolution theory. Our understanding...