How does a physician become intimately involved with primatology? The story of my path is the story of serendipity and exposure to interdisciplinary research. Primatology encompasses many fields: anatomy, behavior, physiology, biochemistry, systematics and taxonomy, evolutionary biology, communication and linguistics, animal husbandry, veterinary medicine, clinical medicine and primatology, to ...

While the literature and textbooks contain descriptions of cord form and function , none fully accounts for primates. This, then, is a general review of the neuro-anatomy and neurophysiology of the spinal cord in primates, with especial reference to squirrel, spider, and rhesus monkeys, chimpanzee, and man. It is timely because (1) studies of axonal pathways using silver impregnation and electr...

New findings from African rainforests show chimpanzees to have impressively advanced technology. They make tools of vegetation to harvest termites as in East and West Africa, but some apes in Central Africa show different techniques and tool sets geared for different tasks.