A trio of ethologists at the University of Pisa has documented and analyzed an instance of infant cannibalism in a drill monkey. In their paper published in the journal Primates, Grazia Casetta ...

Affection in infants was long thought to be generated by the satisfactions of feeding. Studies of young rhesus monkeys now indicate that love derives mainly from close bodily contact By Harry F ...

Evidence that babies can match different vocal sounds to the right species has been found for the first time. Babies as young as 5 months can tell that humans make speech sounds and monkeys make ...

Permanent mother-infant separation prior to natural weaning is a common husbandry practice in monkey breeding colonies. In the United States, such colonies have been established in all eight Regional ...

Forty infant rhesus monkeys were generated from two types of disturbed pregnancies, early or late gestation stress, and compared with 24 undisturbed controls. Prenatal stress increased the ...

In fact, JJ, the infant monkey's father, was orphaned by the bushmeat trade, the release said. Schmidt's guenons are also ...

A newborn baby left alone in a courtyard was eaten by stray dogs. Police have arrested Elda Esperanza Espino Garcia, who allegedly gave birth to the child behind a tree then left it alone for 30 ...

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The high rate of deforestation in the park, which is endangering both the fauna and flora, is leading to climate-related ...

Starting in 1957, Harlow worked with rhesus monkeys, which are more mature at birth than humans, but like human babies show a range of emotions and need to be nursed. He took infant monkeys away ...

Not only is the Monkey Year an auspicious time to give birth, it's also the first opportunity for many families to have more than one child. China… SBS Language ...