Himachal Pradesh High Court, August 31, 2023 directed the Animal Welfare Board of India under the control of Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying (Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairying) to give practical suggestions to Himachal Pradesh regarding control of the monkey menace and also the stray dogs menace …
older, the better: Researchers studying chimpanzee-mating preferences have found that male chimpanzees prefer older females. The study, published in Current Biology , found that older females were more likely to be approached for copulation, were more often in association with males during oestrus periods and copulated more frequently. The findings, …
In this paper I address the general perception that agricultural activities are the principal threat to primate biodiversity in the tropics and argue that in Neotropical landscapes some agricultural practices may favor primate population persistence, and that this situation merits attention and investigation. To explore these issues, I examined three …
The Japanese people face a cultural and ecological challenge in seeking a new relationship between themselves and the Japanese monkeys (Macaca fuscata). Monkeys are a major agricultural pest. Monkey habitat often lies within a short distance from fields and villages, and vice versa, especially in mountainous areas. The idealized solution …
hiv origin: The origin of HIV that causes AIDS has been found in wild chimpanzees living in southern Cameroon, according to an international team of scientists. A virus called SIVcpz (Simian Immunodeficiency Virus from chimps) was thought to be the source, but had only been found in a few captive …
Humans may have split from chimpanzees more recently than believed, says a US study. Further, the split might not have been achieved at one stroke but over almost a million years, claims the study, leading to the controversial theory that our two sets of ancestors may have interbred thousands of …
science may have found it a year ago but discovered its value only recently. The shy, white-whiskered, greyish-brown monkey found in Tanzania in 2005 had earlier been classified as a new primate species. But it now turns out that the monkey represents a new genus (class)
Human and chimpanzee genes differ by a mere 1.2 per cent, which is insufficient to explain the differences between the two species. About 30 years ago, Mary-Claire King and Alan Wilson had proposed it is not genes but their expression that differentiates us from primates. Now, Matthew Rockman of Duke …
scientists from the us Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Johns Hopkins University have discovered two viruses in Cameroon, Africa, that belong to the retrovirus family, which causes several illnesses, including aids. The two
• The Rajasthan and Kerala governments have banned cell phones on school and college campuses with immediate effect. "The information technology revolution has brought cyber crime to the campuses,' said Kerala education minister, E T Mohammad Bashir. • Amateur radio operators provided vital communication links in India in the aftermath …
Science has reached the deep-forest monkey of West Kameng, Arunachal Pradesh. It is now officially recognised as Macaca munzala. The macaque was discovered by a team of ecologists comprising Anindya Sinha of the National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore; Aparajita Datta and Charudutt Mishra of the Mysore-based Nature Conservation Foundation …
The survival of the orangutans seems to be the bone of contention between the World Wide Fund for Nature (wwf) and Malaysian environment experts. The uk chapter of wwf alleges that 91 per cent of the orangutan population in the Indonesian islands of Borneo and Sumatra has disappeared over the …
Dillip Chhetri was looking for a suitable site. He was to conduct a doctoral thesis on the stump-tailed macaque. He had been roaming the Northeast Indian states for a year searching for a patch of forest with a resident macaque population. The macaque is rare
The animal home of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (aiims) in Delhi has handed over a batch of 22 ailing monkeys to the Committee for the Purpose of Control and Supervision of Experiment on Animals (cpcsea). They will now be recuperating at the Hanuman Vatika in Gurgaon, Haryana, …
an aids-like epidemic wiped out huge numbers of chimpanzees around two million years ago, leaving modern chimps resistant to the aids virus and its variants. This hypothesis would explain why chimps, which share more than 98 per cent of their dna with humans, don't develop aids. The hypothesis stems from …
two new monkey species that are about the size of small cats have been recently discovered in Brazil's central Amazon. The discovery was made by Marc Van Roosmalen, a scientist working at Brazil's National Institute for Amazon Research. Full scientific descriptions of the monkeys, Callicebus bernardi and Callicebus stephennashi , …
the human-monkey linkage certainly seems to be a strong one. Along with leaving their mark on the humans, the primates also seem to be responsible for transmitting fatal diseases like aids to their so-called descendents. This was recently revealed during a study conducted by researchers from France who identified a …
researchers might have to rethink their strategy for developing an effective vaccine against Human Immunodeficiency Virus (hiv) reveals a study published in Nature . Researcher Dan Barouch of Harvard Medical School in Boston and his team have shown that hiv can mutate and evade the protection provided by vaccines. The …
Once again it has been proved that monkeys and humans have a lot in common. Researchers have found that gorillas and chimpanzees have a rudimentary speech centre within their brains that until recently was thought to be unique to humans. Brain scans of the apes have revealed a small, lopsided …
a number of cloned monkey embryos that look healthy are in reality a "gallery of horrors' deep within. This was revealed during a study done by a researcher of Advanced Cell Technology (act), a us-based company that recently cloned human embryos for the first time in the world history. The …
