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Learning from Rescued Slow Lorises

Slow lorises, whose lives in the wild are mostly shrouded in the darkness of night, have long been considered primarily solitary primates. A growing body of evidence, however, suggests that at least some of the species are socially more active than previously thought. A new...
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Red lips reconsidered

You know Valentine's Day is right around the corner when you step into your local grocery store and are immediately surrounded by an overload of red boxes and ornaments. While other customers are deciding what to buy for whom, many of our scientist friends from PRI like to...
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Apes think, apes groom

Dr. Morgane Allanic , who recently completed her doctoral program at PRI, studies how bonobos interact with one another to better understand the lives of our closest living relatives. Earlier this year, Morgane and her colleagues published papers (see here and here ) that...
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Seeing Stress in Saliva

Monitoring stress levels of captive or protected animals is important for improving their well-being. How can we do it accurately and quickly enough to help identify causes of acute stress, in a way that doesn't itself cause extra stress to the animals? Nelson Broche...
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