Approximately 65% of primate species are facing extinction, with threats including the impacts linear infrastructures such as roads, railways, and power lines, associated habitat loss fragmentation, direct indirect mortality, changes in animal behavioral patterns. Nevertheless, this is an often-overlooked topic primatology, there limited information on which regions most affected by infrastruct...

biological anthropology had been considerably changed from beginning to now. from 19th to mid-20th century, the race has been the principal concept in bio-anthropologic researches. since mid-20th, the concept of race replaced with the new subjects. the second half of 20th century can be counted as the transition period for bio-anthropology. the three last decades of 20th century are the decades...

1. Primates meet their nutritional goals by prioritizing certain nutritional parameters when choosing the types and quantities of different foods. 2. There are five major models applied in primate nutritional ecology, each of which proposes that diet selection subserves a different primary nutritional goal: (i) energy maximization; (ii) nitrogen (protein) maximization; (iii) avoidance or regula...

' I The editors of the book under review are at the Primate Research Institute of Kyoto University (Japan). S. Kondo is Director of the Institute and Professor of the Department of Morphology. A DSc, he was previously Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Tokyo and General Chairman of the Organizing Committee of the Congress on which this book was based. Kondo has contributed...

Vision is probably one of the most important functions of advanced organisms. When we look at objects, we not only detect their physical parameters but also are able to think about these objects and make complex conclusions. When we see another person looking somewhere, we are also able to understand that he or she focuses on some object and probably thinks about that. To what extent primates’ ...

We thank Norscia and Palagi for their insightful commentary on our article ‘Scratch that itch: revisiting links between selfdirected behaviour and parasitological, social and environmental factors in a free-ranging primate’ [1]. We welcome such discussion because we think, as the authors themselves point out at the end of their commentary, that research needs to continue in this area. In genera...

T his p;iper is unusual tbr this journal Ix'cau.se most readers elo not deal protessionally with animals, Infonnaiion fix)m primatology, however, is relevant to consideration of violent e Ix-tween people. I will fiHus tnaitily on ;iggre.ssion and peacemaking among nonhuman primates, but will addre.ss related topics as well. I do not use the term Mggression' to reter onlvto violent behavior but ...

Researchers spanning many scientific domains, including primatology, evolutionary biology and psychology, have sought to establish an evolutionary basis for morality. While researchers have identified social and cognitive adaptations that support ethical behaviour, a consensus has emerged that genetically determined physical traits are not reliable signals of unethical intentions or actions. Ch...

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Emotion is one of the central topics in animal studies and is likely to attract attention substantially in the coming years. Recent studies have developed a thermo-imaging technique to measure the facial skin temperature in the studies of emotion in humans and macaques. Here we established the procedures and techniques needed to apply the same technique to great apes. We conducted two experimen...