Primates and P Guide - Resources and Review

Includes many primate research resources, including AskPrimate, an email based reference service, and listings of primate organisations.
 
Code of practice for the housing and care of animals in designated breeding and supplying establishments. Discusses acquisition and despatch of primates, animal health, environmental conditions, diet and breeding programmes. Requirements of individual species including marmosets, owl monkeys, squirrel monkeys, macaques, baboons, and new and old world monkeys are detailed.
 
Group which promotes conservation and understanding of the orangutan, which is threatened with extinction. Provides information on historical background, press releases, projects, and orangutan habitat. Also includes a paper on the abuse of orangutans and bibliographies on orangutan ecology, behaviour, and conservation.
 
Fund dedicated to the conservation and protection of the endangered mountain gorilla and its habitat in East Central Africa. Includes press releases about news of the region, profiles and field reports of gorilla groups. Also offers a bibliography of scientific publications covering gorilla cognition, feeding behaviour, vocalisations, social structure and development.
 
Centre investigating similarities between apes and humans in relation to social life, ecology, cognition, neurology, and molecular genetics. Provides a dictionary of hyperlinked terms, research topics, and a series of sounds illustrating noises made by apes, human interviews, and video clips showing chimpanzee conflict, food sharing, and the bushmeat crisis.
 
Group promoting the protection, preservation, and propagation of gorillas. Activities include teaching a modified form of American Sign Language to two lowland gorillas, and developing a unique preserve for gorillas on the island of Maui, Hawaii. Features articles, video clips, photographs, and a selection of gorillas' art work.
 
Promotes research and understanding of prosimian primates such as lemurs, lorises, pottos, galagoes and tarsiers. Provides key facts on lifestyle, reproduction and habitat for the different species and subspecies.
 
Group which works towards the well
being of primates by creating and preserving national parks and sanctuaries, and by controlling primate hunting, trapping and sale. Provides articles and press releases on campaigns, projects and specific cases of primate mistreatment.
 
Information about gorilla behaviour, reproduction, and natural history. Includes news, images, conservation, research and references.
 
Institute promoting activities that ensure the well
being of chimpanzees, other primates and animal welfare activities in general. Offers facts on chimpanzee behaviour, habitat, communication, physiology, conservation, tool use and hunting.
 
ChimpanZoo is a collective effort between the Jane Goodall Institute, zoological facilities and universities to apply uniform research methods to learn more about chimpanzees and their psychological and behavioural responses to a captive environment. Includes a study section defining and describing primates with an emphasis on chimpanzees. Topics include evolution, taxonomy, communication, anatomy, and locomotion.
 
Provides a centralised resource for orangutan and primate related information, facts and news. Includes articles and listings of organisations that promote the rehabilitation and welfare of all primates.
 
Non
profit organisation which helps to protect orangutans through projects such as a reintroduction program for confiscated orangutans on the island of Borneo. Offers information on orangutan research, projects and conservation.
 
Links to articles, research findings and bibliographies about the behaviour of primates. Areas considered are abnormality, cognition / intelligence, communication, learning, locomotion, perception, sexual behaviour, sleep and social behaviour.
 
Society founded in 1967 to promote research into all aspects of primate biology, conservation and management.
 
This bibliography is designed to guide students in mammalogy to literature in specific areas. The works included are primarily monographic and of wide coverage. It is divided into general areas, such as systematics and nomenclature, anatomy and geography, and mammal groups, including marsupials and monotremes, primates and carnivora.
 
Group which campaigns for the ethical and moral treatment of captive chimpanzees. Includes press releases and other information relating to the use of chimpanzees in medical research and animal rights.
 
Collection of photographs and illustrations showing gorillas, chimpanzees, orangutans, gibbons, old and new world primates and prosimians. Drawings by non
human primates are included.
 
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