The relationship between humans and non-human primates in South Africa is problematic. On the one hand, vervet monkeys were formerly designated vermin species and could be destroyed at will. On the other hand, many people keep young vervets as pets even though this is illegal, and the animals are confiscated if discovered. Sanctuaries were established to accommodate large numbers of orphaned an...

The aim of this paper is to recognise the contemporary meaning nickname koczkodan in Polish [English: hag, frump; literally: a vervet monkey], based on extracts real discurse taken from Corpus. This has been obtained by examining metaphors underlying nickname, which are motivated various contextual factors, e.g. speaker’s gender and discourse registers phrase pronounced. Accordingly, working CM...

Children with fetal alcohol spectrum disorders display behavioural and intellectual impairments that strongly implicate dysfunction within the frontal cortex. Deficits in social behaviour and cognition are amongst the most pervasive outcomes of prenatal ethanol exposure. Our naturalistic vervet monkey model of fetal alcohol exposure (FAE) provides an unparalleled opportunity to study the neurob...

Wildlife conservation is facing numerous and mounting challenges on private and communal lands in Africa, including in Kenya. We analyze the population dynamics of 44 common wildlife species in relation to rainfall variation in the Nakuru Wildlife Conservancy (NWC), located in the Nakuru-Naivasha region of Kenya, based on ground total counts carried out twice each year from March 1996 to May 20...

Parkinsonian behavioral deficits are improved following transplantation of fetal dopamine (DA) neurons to the striatum of MPTP-treated monkeys, although the mechanism of the recovery has not been resolved. While there is good evidence for the survival of grafted tyrosine hydroxylase (TH)-positive cells following their placement in caudate nucleus, it is not known whether they provide sufficient...

Transthyretin (TTR) amyloidosis is classified into systemic senile amyloidosis (SSA), due to senescent events caused by the wild type TTR gene, and familial amyloidotic cardiomyopathy (FAC) and familial amyloidotic polyneuropathy (FAP), which are inherited diseases caused by mutant TTR genes (Ando et al., 2005; Buxbaum, 2009; Rapezzi et al., 2010). TTR is biochemically stable as a tetramer; how...