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Can tourists help conserve bald uakaris?

December 8, 2021

Bald uakaris are unique looking creatures—the monkeys appear to have floating red skulls on a bulldog-sized version of Chewbacca’s body, complete with a short, football-shaped tail. The primates are a site to behold as they …

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Watch: How did African vervet monkeys get to Fort Lauderdale?

May 28, 2021

An introduced population of Africa vervet monkeys living near a Fort Lauderdale airport arrived there after escaping from a chimpanzee farm more than 70 years ago. In a new study published in the journal Primates, …

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Watch: Cameras confirm rare dryas monkeys in Congo

May 4, 2021

Dryas monkeys prefer dense vegetation in thickets of secondary forest, which means the primates are difficult to detect in their native habitat in the jungles of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. As a result, …

David Frey

JWM: Unmanaged, nonnative macaques boom in Florida park

December 7, 2018

A population of nonnative rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) introduced in central Florida is set to double by 2022 unless steps are taken to reduce it, biologists found. But dealing with the monkeys, which are a …

Julia John

On Georgia island, clever lemurs get all the attention

April 24, 2018

In the lemur world, smarts could mean popularity. New research found that lemurs spent more time with individuals who figured out how to complete a foraging challenge fastest. “Lemurs tend to hang out with individuals …

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