A study discovered that bickering macaques made the effort to extend their social network by making more relationships to aid survival under the dire circumstances of an ecological disaster as occurred when a hurricane devastated the primates’ Caribbean island home. The vegetation was striped from …
Elon Musk has a dream and as he is the world’s richest man being worth US$190 billion, he is likely to make his dream come true. In essence, he wants to fuse together the human brain with an artificial intelligence computer which will allow a …
NEWS AND COMMENT – CALIFORNIA, USA: This is a slightly bizarre and disturbing story about captive monkeys. It is reported by The Guardian newspaper that twenty-seven monkeys were held at NASA’s Ames research Centre in California’s Silicon Valley. They were there because they were taken …
Keeping monkeys as pets causes suffering for the animals and it endangers their survival in the wild. The UK government is preparing to announce that anybody who buys, sells and breeds pet monkeys will face a significant fine. In the UK there are about 5,000 …
Female gelada monkeys of Ethiopian rapidly mature in the presence of an incoming breeding male. While the biological father of the gelada monkey is present in the life of a female offspring she suppresses her maturation but on the arrival of a new breeding male, …
A study published in the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B tells us that strong social bonds extends the lifespan of baboons. It applies to both males and females although it is easier to assess the effect on females because the males disappear …
In America there is a shortage of rhesus macaque monkeys for animal testing purposes. There was a shortage years before the coronavirus pandemic but now US research centres are saying that there are not enough to go around and there is huge pressure on developing …
