Primate sanctuaries across Africa play a pivotal role in the rescue and rehabilitation of confiscated and rescued wild primates, many of whom have had extensive contact with humans prior to their arrival and throughou...
The aim of this study was to evaluate the ethnomedical knowledge of the population of South Ubangi on Myrianthus arboreus,a plant consumed by chimpanzees,with the assumption that this bio-resource is also used by the ...
This study determined the influence of nutritional fruit content on their consumption by chimpanzees in Kalinzu forest. Fruits consumption frequencies were obtained from analysis of chimpanzee faecal samples picked ov...
Primates have been found to differ widely in their taste perception and studies suggest that a coevolution between plant species bearing a certain taste substance and primate species feeding on these plants may contri...
Virtual simulated environments provide multiple ways of testing cognitive function and evaluatingproblem solving with humans (e.g., Woollett et al. 2009). The use of such interactive technologyhas increasingly becom...
One hundred and eighteen (118) tree species were identified, among which 58 species produced fruit within the two-year study. Fruit of only 26.3% of the latter is eaten by chimpanzees. The consumption of each of these...
Supported by In part the Fifth framework program from the EU,No.BIO-CT98-0357,QLK2-CT-1999-00356 and ERC2008-Ad G-233130-HEPCENT(Verstrepen BE);by the Virgo consortium,funded by the Dutch government project,No.FES0908(Boonstra A)
Hepatitis C virus(HCV) infection is characterized by a high propensity for development of life-long viral persistence. An estimated 170 million people suffer from chronic hepatitis caused by HCV. Currently,there is no...
Microbial populations in the gastrointestinal tract contribute to host health and nutrition.Although gut microbial ecology is well studied in livestock and domestic animals,little is known of the endogenous population...
The paper studied the imperatives of health psychologists in the control and management of HIV/ AIDS. HIV/AIDS is a relatively new disease, but has caused more deaths than any other disease in human history, and there...
supported by the State Key Laboratory of Medical Genetics,a FuRong Scholarship;the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No. 81171880);the National Basic Research Program of China(Grant No. 2011CB51001)
Unbiased readings of fossils are well known to contradict some of the popular molecular groupings among primates,particularly with regard to great apes and tarsiers.The molecular methodologies today are however flawed...