Another part of the feeling that the modern human is misplaced in urban society comes from the realization that people are still genetically close not only to the Romans and the seventeenth-century Europeans but to Neandertals to the ape ancestors Holland mentions and to the small bands
when a frog or a monkey looked down at itself pronounced itself satisfied and said Voilã Â I am done.
Humans were tweak from the natural primate to better interface with our alien over lord or GODS.
Even anti-evolutionists have to realize that humans were not always here so it entirely possible that we may die out like every other smart ape.
and the excessive hording is a sign that we humans DNA have been tweak from the natural primate and no longer natural to this world.'
Hey@Popsci is the#mysteryanimal a baboon? And then I might say if you think that's a baboon perhaps you are the baboon!
But probably not because this is a positive environment and all guesses are welcome and also this is not a very common animal so guess whatever you want!
Your dumb kids who thought that was a baboon! Update: And the winner is...Seth Rosenthal who for the second week in a row correctly guessed the mystery animal first!
Higher animals such as primates and dolphins evolved in a greenhouse earth. Earth was damaged by an evasive plant species that kicked a series of global catastrophes called icebox earth
Even so I think we should dump Drill baby drill! and start changing Bring on the thorium!
No no no I could not be related to a monkey!!!Impossible that idea offends me.
If Darwin never existed then none of us would ever know the joy of being a monkeys uncle rofl...
#Why Are Monkey Butts So Colorful? If you're anything like me you may have wondered why some monkeys have bright blue skin.
Even if you don't pay careful attention to monkey butts you may still have wondered what makes some people's eyes blue.
This added complexity is the secret to the blue monkey butt. To understand how photons move through a complex tissue like skin lets compare a red photon with a blue photon as it hits two tissue layers.
A baboon's butt tissue is arranged somewhat like the illustration above so that blue photons are reflected
This is why we see we see blue monkey butts! So now you will never look at a monkey's butt the same way:
you will know what makes it blue! You will even be able to hold your own
And also nothing about WHY monkey butts are colored...If we asked Jane Goodall Im sure she would skip the refraction part
and I cannot lie All you other bonobos cant deny when a female of non-direct relation walks in with a deep blue backside coloration your baculum gets sprung!
A very illuminating asspiring arictle with butteautiful illuastrations of primate buttocks! LOL thanks Wanamingo I love your song.
Now here are some pictures of monkey butts for your amusement. They are colored to attract mates.
Why Are Monkey Butts So Colorful? Answer: Because they are blue. That is essentially what you said.
A much better answer would have included discussion of the types of colorful pigments in different monkey butts
@Wanamingoclick on the gallery they explain for each monkey separatly---No facts No response..
#How It Works: Honeybee Societya beehive buzzes with thousands of genetically similar female honeybees. Some nurse their queen and her eggs while others fly out in search of pollen and nectar.
Hansen is a living example of the idea that a chimpanzee randomly typing will occasionally generate something coherent.
Evolution would require a split resulting in an additional species like the supposed relationship between chimps and humans.
Chimps are still chimps but a long time ago one chimp broke off and became a new species (well that's the creed anyway).
Further more if reproduction had anything to do with it then more rapidly reproducing species like rabbits should have outpaces us long ago
and they'll likely diverge like chimps humans orangutans gorillas did millions of years ago.
Yes TN did host the Scopes Monkey Trial and we won the case but history has won the battle. http://tshirtgroove. com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08
So did god create humans 99%monkey? I prefer not to believe in a lazy god like that.@
If you're 99%identical to a monkey how closely related do you think you are to his feces?
Modern man is a leap in the natural evolution of primates and has not been explain yet.
It seems ancient primate man was downgraded from living with the natural environment and upgraded to communicate better
The Sumerian culture explains why humans were made clearly in their historymodern man is a leap in the natural evolution of primates
The primates continue all over the world in HOT environment with their fur still ON. Besides the appendix the gall blander is another expendable organ.
The god overloads taught farming for modern man hence the need for these organs were not necessary plus just something else to fail in the primate body.
The primates continue all over the world in HOT environment with their fur still ON. I did not say all animals must lose their fur in hot environments.
My theory is that along our primate evolutional lines of Neanderthal man an outside influence from a cosmic body came to Earth
ONE NASA MONKEY OUTER SPACE SHOT FOR THE MOON AND REMOTE ORBIT LUNAR FLIGHT SPLASH DOWN!
ONE NASA MONKEY OUTER SPACE SHOT FOR THE MOON AND REMOTE ORBIT LUNAR FLIGHT SPLASH DOWN!
#When Did Primates Learn To Metabolize Alcohol? A Chemist Reenacts Drunk Historyhumans have been fermenting alcoholic beverages
Our ability to digest alcohol might have sprung from a primate ancestor that ate fermenting fruits a new theory suggests.
Other primates have ADH4 enzymes but not all can metabolize ethanol. To analyze how ethanol digestion changed over time Steven Benner a chemist at the Foundation for Applied Molecular Evolution built enzymes in the lab that estimated how extinct primates metabolized alcohol.
Benner and his colleagues looked at the DNA stretches responsible for ADH4 in 27 modern primates Using lemurs monkeys apes
and humans they mapped the DNA sequences on an evolutionary family tree for primates going back 60 million years estimating what genes could have looked like for extinct primate ancestors.
Then they resurrected these ancient ADH4 proteins in the lab. They found that for most of our ancient ancestors ADH4S were inactive against ethanol
Ten million years ago though a common ancestor of gorillas chimps and humans emerged with an enzyme that could digest alcohol 50 times more efficiently than earlier incarnations.
Species like orangutans which primarily live in trees didn't evolve to metabolize ethanol perhaps because they wouldn't have run into fermented fruit living aboveground.
whether or not the last common ancestor of humans chimps and gorillas actually spent time on the ground or lived entirely in trees.
Science News Primates did not learn to metabolise ethanol. The ability was a result of the evolutionary natural selection process.
and Laos. Despite its name this primate weighs only five pounds. Researchers suspect that some 100 to 160 live in disappearing bamboo forests in Madagascar.
Any feline any canid any mustelid (weasel) any procyonid (raccoon) any non-bonkers primate (baboons which are completely terrifying are exempt.
and animals that would prefer to murder you than let you pat them on the head (big cats bears baboons) are outlawed all.
if your pet western lowland gorilla is a Class 2 or 3 animal then you give him a ten-spot for processing
and you're all set the proud owner of one of about fourteen western lowland gorillas. Maybe you can take it to see the home of former president Benjamin harrison in the lovely Old Northside Historic District of Indianapolis.
The GODS need to domesticate the local primates enable their communication skies instill them a high desire to gather greed with the imagination and intelligence to do so.
if you require a coffin that large. love those 5th element apart style sign me in---Type 0. 72)= We are still just cleaver monkeys!
---Type 0. 72)= We are still just cleaver monkeys!..damn should have read the article first (sorry for paraphrasing)--Type 0. 72)= We are still just cleaver monkeys!
Well if they decide instead to get there cow or meat from China they all be dead including their pets.
---Type 0. 72)= We are still just cleaver monkeys! Can't imagine a mad cow outbreak
---Type 0. 72)= We are still just cleaver monkeys! So horsemeat has been found in Tesco Products.
#Gorillas, Watermelons and Sperm: The Greatest Genomes Sequenced In 2012click to launch the photo galleryclick to launch the photo galleryin the 10 years
In 2012 genome researchers sequenced the DNA of an unborn human baby the western lowland gorilla fruits and grains and livestock.
Click through our gallery to see the highlights. in 30%of the genome gorilla is closer to human
or chimpanzee than the latter are to each other. from a nature article on the gorilla genome...
non-primate mammals such as pigs sheep and cows. Humans don t make the sugar and we all have some form of immune response to it.
and Malaysia and is one of only two remaining habitats for orangutans. Between 1980 and 2000 more wood was harvested from Borneo than from Africa
(and also resembles the tail of this monkey geoglyph found amongst the Nazca Lines). Why they do this remains unknown.
New orleans in Mid-july is no place for a chimp. The sweltering mosquito-assaulted set of Dawn of the Planet of the Apes is a minor marvel of engineering a three-story habitat with interlacing tree trunks recessed rooms
and passages and a flowing aqueduct that s turned the ground level into a swamp of pooling water and sucking mud.
The filmmakers call it Ape Village and it really does look like something hyperintelligent domineering apes might construct.
Until that is you notice the dozens of motion-capture cameras dotting the structure and the guys in gray full-body suits broiling in the merciless sun and steamy humidity.
They re the sweatiest most miserable make-believe chimps imaginable. And then they start to move.
While Rise of the Planet of the Apes (released in 2011) relied on stunt people the sequel to the sci-fi reboot has cast Cirque du Soleil performers.
what it would be like for a chimpanzee to fly from limb to limb now we have guys that can actually jump the 20 feet says producer Dylan Clark.
From a VFX standpoint Dawn of the Planet of the Apes isn t a single leap of faith but a series of them.
what was possible with performance capture turning Caesar a chimp played by Andy Serkis into a believable full-computer-generated (CG) character.
Dawn features a much larger cast of apes and their expanded screen time makes for a much bigger challenge.
With more data at their disposal animators can imbue the entire supporting cast of 3-D odeled primates with the same uncanny flicker of intelligence that made Caesar an instant CG star.
Because unlike the monsters mutants and other VFX-enhanced flights of fancy populating sci-fi flicks apes (even smart ones) aren t imaginary.
We want the chimpanzees to act and look and be photorealistic Clark says. We want this movie to feel real.
With targeted chemical mutagens geneticists have pulled off feats both impressive such as increasing the circumference of macaque monkeys thigh muscles by 15 percent and flat out disturbing like making legs sprout from the heads
which put down a drill string to the earth's crust under 18000 feet of water near Guadalupe Island off the west coast of Mexico.
Researchers are reporting that a baboon is still alive after receiving a heart transplanted from a pig The Telegraph reports.
The baboon has lived with the heart in its abdomen for more than a year. Its longevity is a milestone.
Previously when researchers tried to transplant pig hearts into primates the primates'bodies would reject the transplants within six months The Telegraph reports.
which conducted the baboon study. Those who are waiting can use mechanical devices but those aren't perfect the institute says.
It seems pig hearts are just a little too foreign for primate bodies to accept easily however.
In previous studies the hearts would trigger a massive immune response in the primates they were transplanted into.
To make hearts that baboons nd in the future humans on't reject the National Heart Lung
The researchers also gave their baboons drugs to suppress their immune systems. Human patients take immunosuppressant drugs
when it tried other drug regimens their baboons died in less than a year. Baboons who received hearts from un-genetically modified pigs rejected the hearts within a day.
Now that the team has shown pig hearts are able to hang around inside primates safely the next step will be to actually replace baboons'hearts with pig hearts The Telegraph reports.
The baboon in this study has a pig heart in its body alongside its own heart
which is doing all the work. This baboon study hasn't been published in a peer-reviewed journal yet
but its authors presented it yesterday at the annual meeting of the American Association for Thoracic Surgery.
--or they could come back with a squirrel monkey. These men showed similar increases in testosterone and cortisol regardless of
Primates are seen as the worst plague and the animals that are the most destructive. Olive baboons vervets and other primates are the main culprits.
The next most damaging animals are elephants. Elephants are only a problem close to the park says Mwakatobe.
She recommends further studies of the conflicts between humans and other primates. Mwakatobe thinks that a combination of several kinds of guarding practices will be the most effective in minimizing animal raids on crops.
#First in depth analysis of primate eating habitsfrom insect-munching tamarins to leaf-loving howler monkeys researchers at the University of East Anglia (UEA) have compiled the most thorough review of primate
Findings published today in the journal Oikos show how some monkeys consume their'five a day'within a single hour
and diversity of fruit consumed by primates in neotropical forests of South and Central america. The team compiled data from 290 primate dietary studies spanning 42 years of research across 17 countries.
They reveal how primate body mass and the amount of fruit consumed are linked--with small monkeys such as marmosets
and tamarins eating more insects and less fruit. The amount of fruit eaten gradually increases with greater body size
and peaks at medium-sized primates such as saki monkeys. But fruit intake then declines in favour of leaves in larger-bodied primates such as howler and woolly spider monkeys.
Lead researcher Dr Joseph Hawes from UEA's School of Environmental sciences said: We examined dietary data to quantify how much different primate species feed on fruit leaves and insects--particularly in relation to their body size.
We found that different species vary widely in the amount and diversity of fruits that they eat as well as the overall contribution of fruit to their diets.
We found that the diet of medium-sized primates is most likely to be dominated by fruits.
Meanwhile smaller primates which have high metabolic requirements eat more insects as they provide a high-quality source of nutrients and calories.
Larger monkeys eat a lot more foliage because their guts can tolerate high levels of cellulose and toxins
--which are unpalatable or indigestible to smaller primates. Many primates easily consume their'five a day'often within a single hour of active foraging.
For example a single group of several Amazonian primate species can consume as many as 45-50 species of fruit in a single day!
One of the most surprising things that we found was that primates with wide geographic ranges do not necessarily consume a wider diversity of fruits as expected perhaps
because these species tend to be generalist feeders. Another surprise was that primates with higher prevalence of fruit in their diets were historically among the most poorly studied meaning we still have a lot to learn about their importance as consumers and seed dispersers.
Co-author Prof Carlos Peres also from UEA added: Having a good understanding of nonhuman primate diets in the wild is very important for the conservation planning of threatened and area-demanding species with forest habitat loss and severe forest degradation a major concern
throughout the New world tropics. This is also critical to evaluate the roles of primates within forest food webs particularly as seed dispersers for tropical forest plants.
The research was funded by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC. Story Source: The above story is provided based on materials by University of East Anglia.
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#Proteins passing phases revealeda new method to identify previously hidden details about the structures of proteins may speed the process of novel drug design according to scientists at Rice university.
A unique combination of computational techniques and experimental data helped Rice theorists predict intermediate configurations of proteins that until now have been hard to detect.
#First evidence of primates regularly sleeping in cavesscientists have discovered that some ring-tailed lemurs in Madagascar regularly retire to limestone chambers for their nightly snoozes the first evidence of the consistent daily use of the same caves and crevices for sleeping among the world's wild primates.
because it provides safety from potential predators it also can provide the primates with access to water
What we are seeing is a consistent habitual use of caves as sleeping sites by these primates a wonderful behavioral adaptation we had known not about before.
Funding for the project came from Primate Conservation Inc. the International Primate Society the American Society of Primatologists the National geographic Society CU-Boulder the University of North dakota Colorado College and the National Science Foundation.
The endangered Fusui langurs slender long-tailed Asian monkeys roughly 2 feet tall also have been documented sleeping in caves
There also have been isolated reports of South african baboons sleeping in caves. Ring-tailed lemurs are identified easily by their characteristic black and white ringed tails
The behavior may be characteristic of a deep primate heritage that goes back millions of years.
#Bonobo: Forgotten ape threatened by human activity and forest lossthe most detailed range-wide assessment of the bonobo (formerly known as the pygmy chimpanzee) ever conducted has revealed that this poorly known and endangered great ape is quickly losing space in a world with growing human populations.
The loss of usable habitat is attributed to both forest fragmentation and poaching according to a new study by University of Georgia University of Maryland the Wildlife Conservation Society ICCN (Congolese Wildlife Authority
) African Wildlife Foundation Zoological Society of Milwaukee World Wildlife Fund Max Planck Institute Lukuru Foundation University of Stirling Kyoto University and other groups.
and remote sensing imagery the research team found that the bonobo--one of humankind's closest living relatives--avoids areas of high human activity and forest fragmentation.
As little as 28 percent of the bonobo's range remains suitable according to the model developed by the researchers in the study
This assessment is a major step towards addressing the substantial information gap regarding the conservation status of bonobos across their entire range said lead author Dr. Jena R. Hickey of Cornell University
and the University of Georgia. The results of the study demonstrate that human activities reduce the amount of effective bonobo habitat
and will help us identify where to propose future protected areas for this great ape. For bonobos to survive over the next 100 years
or longer it is extremely important that we understand the extent of their range their distribution
Bonobos are probably the least understood great ape in Africa so this paper is pivotal in increasing our knowledge and understanding of this beautiful and charismatic animal.
The bonobo is smaller in size and more slender in build than the common chimpanzee.
The great ape's social structure is complex and matriarchal. Unlike the common chimpanzee bonobos establish social bonds and diffuse tension or aggression with sexual behaviors.
The entire range of the bonobo lies within the lowland forests of the Democratic Republic of Congo the largest country in Sub-saharan africa
and currently beset with warfare and insecurity. The research team created a predictive model using available field data to define bonobo habitat
and then interpolated to areas lacking data. Specifically the team compiled data on bonobo nest locations collected by numerous organizations between the years 2003-2010.
This produced 2364 nest blocks with a block defined as a 1-hectare area occupied by at least one bonobo nest.
The group then tested a number of factors that addressed both ecological conditions (describing forests soils climate
and mapped the most important environmental factors contributing to bonobo occurrence. The researchers found that distance from agricultural areas was the most important predictor of bonobo presence.
In addition to the discovery that only 28 percent of the bonobo range is classified as suitable for the great ape the researchers also found that only 27.5 percent of that suitable bonobo habitat is located in existing protected areas.
Bonobos that live in closer proximity to human activity and to points of human access are more vulnerable to poaching one of their main threats said Dr. Janet Nackoney a Research Assistant professor at University of Maryland and second author of the study.
Our results point to the need for more places where bonobos can be safe from hunters
which is an enormous challenge in the DRC. Dr. Nate Nibbelink Associate professor at the University of Georgia added:
The bonobo habitat suitability map resulting from this work allows us to identify areas that are likely to support bonobos
The fact that only a quarter of the bonobo range that is currently suitable for bonobos is located within protected areas is a finding that decision-makers can use to improve management of existing protected areas
and reserves in order to save vital habitat for this great ape said Innocent Liengola WCS's Project Director for the Bonobo Conservation Project
The future of the bonobo will depend on the close collaboration of many partners working towards the conservation of this iconic ape said Dr. Liz Williamson of the IUCN/SSC Primate Specialist Group
and coordinator of the action planning process which instigated the bonobo data compilation for this study.
In 2012 the International Union for Conservation and Nature (IUCN) and the Congolese Wildlife Authority (ICCN) published a report titled Bonobo (Pan paniscus:
and temperature at the bottom of the ice sheet before selecting a final drill location.
what's happening below the surface without the need to drill. It's a more targeted way of searching for minerals that reduces costs and impact on the environment.
#Long-term memory helps chimpanzees in their search for foodwhere do you go when the fruits in your favourite food tree are gone
whether chimpanzees aim their travel to particular rainforest trees to check for fruit and how they increase their chances of discovering bountiful fruit crops.
The scientists found that chimpanzees use long-term memory of the size and location of fruit trees and remember feeding experiences from previous seasons using a memory window
For their study the researchers recorded the behaviour of five chimpanzee females for continuous periods of four to eight weeks totalling 275 complete days throughout multiple fruiting seasons in the Taã National park CÃ
They found that chimpanzees fed on significantly larger trees than other reproductively mature trees of the same species especially
The researchers found that chimpanzees checked most trees along the way during travel but 13%were approached in a goal-directed manner.
which of nearly 16000 potential food trees with different crown sizes were approached actually by the chimpanzees.
and hence the minimal memory window of chimpanzees required for effective monitoring activities could vary from two months to three years.
The present study on chimpanzees is the first to show that our close relatives use long-term memory during their search for newly produced tropical fruit
This study helps us to understand why chimpanzees and other primates should remember events over long periods in time.
And guess what? It also shows they do! says Christophe Boesch of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
and it is ethically easier to use them than for example apes says senior scientist Knud Larsen from Aarhus University.
The theory describes how dust grains in interstellar space like soldiers in lock-drill formation spin
New bamboo genera, mountain gorillas, and the origins of Chinas bamboosafrican mountain bamboos are something of a mystery as nearly all bamboos are found in Asia or South america.
Hidden away up mountains in the tropics where they provide food for gorillas just as China's bamboos provide food for the Giant panda there are apparently only 2 species
and they had not been examined in very great detail except by the gorillas see image. It had been thought that they were very closely related to the hundreds of similar bamboos in Asia
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