tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-58540416513954677522012-02-01T16:28:09.028-05:00Primatology For The PeopleRaymond Hohttps://profiles.google.com/109347370527155244024noreply@blogger.comBlogger2271100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5854041651395467752.post-16707904845006533352012-01-27T21:48:00.002-05:002012-01-27T21:49:37.153-05:00

Things are going to get hectic again as I start another semester towards my Masters degree. I'm taking 3 classes this semester. While it doesn't seem to be a lot, there will be quite a number of readings and assignments needed to be done for these classes so I am perfectly happy graduating a year or one semester later if it means I get to keep my sanity in the process. Two classes that I look

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More good news heading our way. Another primate who was thought to be extinct has now been rediscovered in the jungles of Borneo. Published in the latest edition of American Journal of Primatology, the Miller's Grizzled Langur (Presbytis hosei carnicrus) was rediscovered in Wehea Forest, an area outside of its known range. Thought to have gone extinct as early as 2004, subsequent expedition in

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Caught in the act. Mother and infant Sumatran Orangutan sharing their kill, a slow loris. Photo from NewScientist. Well, well, well ... it seems like we have another great ape species who can't stay on a vegetarian diet. I mean, who in their right mind would want be an obligate herbivore right? Right? Actually ... contrary to popular belief, orangutans are not strictly frugivores (fruit eater

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Two years ago, a new species of snub nosed monkey was described by scientists and was named Myanmar snub-nosed monkey (Rhinopithecus strykeri). When it was first described, there were no image of living specimen of this species in existence. The team who described this new species illustrated the new species based on field sightings and a dead carcass retrieved from a local village before it goes

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Gerp's mouse lemur (Microcebus gerpi). Photo by  Blanchard Randrianambinina from WildMadagascar. There is evidence that a new mouse lemur species has been discovered in eastern Madagascar. While conducting survey and distributional data of mouse lemurs in the Sahafina Forest (inside Mantadia National Park) between 2008-2009, German scientists (Radespiel et al., 2011) came upon a mouse lemur

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Yawning is a phenomenon that occurs not only in human but also in other animals such as mammals, fishes, amphibians, reptiles and birds (Heusner, 1946; Baenninger, 1987; Gallup et al., 2009). There are many proposed reasons and functions as to what elicit yawning behavior in an individual but little is known about the role of contagious yawning and how animals can catch yawns from other

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I have written about interspecies grooming on this blog, a post that appeared sometime last October, Interspecies grooming at The Bronx Zoo. Interspecies grooming first peaked my interest after I realized that two of my cats would readily groom me (hair or skin). Of course, grooming held a special place in my heart. I wrote a thesis comparing grooming behavior in geladas and hamadryas baboons for

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I thought I’d share a paper I wrote from last semester’s Comparative Psychology class on handedness in humans and geladas. Debating if I should actually follow through with this preliminary report and do some data collection. There is a YouTube video that accompanies this paper, which will appear on the bottom of the page. Handedness can be defined as the unequal distribution of fine motor

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In less than a week, some of you will be shuffling back to school as Fall session begins. Every new semester, without a doubt, you'll be able to pick out the smart ass in the class. You know, the ones that sit in front of the class and always have their hands up when the professor asks a question (think Hermione Granger). But what if you are the smart ass? Have no fear, you're reading the right

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Some time last week, a little birdie sent me a link to what appears to be a page from American Museum of Natural History (AMNH). Said birdie also mentioned that the link has to do with my honors thesis. Along with the link was a thumbnail of a male hamadryas baboon that looked rather familiar. It took me a few seconds to realize that I am looking at Fadi, or Moja as what he is referred to by the

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Map of Uganda showing the remote Karamoja region in the northeast of the country where a team of Ugandan and French paleontologists announced Tuesday they had found a 20-million-year-old ape skull, saying it could shed light on the region's evolutionary history. Illustration from PhysOrg. A well preserved fossil skull of an ancient primate, Ugandapithecus major, has been excavated in the

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Atlantic Spotted Mackerel. Stained using red dye (bones) and blue dye (cartilage) I was excited to be invited back to another tweetup at AMNH last night. This time, I was able to get Vance to come with me and I think he had a pretty good time. The tweetup was about "Picturing Science: Museum Scientists and Imaging Technologies", a vivid photo exhibition of specimens and phenomenon. And yet

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Infanticide and cannibalism are two extreme behaviors seen in primates. Though extreme, the persistence of these behaviors in primates suggest that they are adapted for and had evolved to serve different purposes. Infanticide and cannibalism can be considered as both reproductive and survival strategies. Infanticide has always been associated with males killing off the progeny of former dominant

Raymond Hohttps://profiles.google.com/109347370527155244024noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5854041651395467752.post-37074037518813311732011-05-17T23:55:00.001-04:002011-05-17T23:58:56.483-04:00

Do you know that fossil primates once roam North America? I didn't know either so this discovery was a shock and a "d'oh" moment at the same time. Lingual view (side that touches the tongue) of Mescalerolemur horneri partial mandible.Scale bar equals 2 mm. Photo from Kirk & Williams (2011). Anywho ... A fossil primate from the Eocene Epoch was discovered in Devil's Graveyard badlands of West

Raymond Hohttps://profiles.google.com/109347370527155244024noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5854041651395467752.post-32124733794789114402011-04-15T22:49:00.001-04:002011-06-13T17:53:22.972-04:00

This trailer makes me wish it's August already! If you don't know what it is, it's the prequel to Planet of the Apes. The movie adaptation was first made in 1968 with a remake in 2001. I expect to not see mistakes that were made in previous Planet of the Apes movies, among some of them, non-human apes were portrayed walking upright with a human gait. All the non-human apes in this movie will be

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A recent study shows that homosexual behaviors in orangutans occur more frequent and could possibly mean that there are more homosexual orangutan that we previously thought. The study by Smith et al. (2011) found that, statistically, 1 out of 10 orangutan is actually gay. One of the example from the study described two male Sumatran orangutans (Pongo abelii) whom the authors believe are "totally

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Snapped a photo of this T shirt when I was at the aquarium this weekend. Can you figure out why the explanation is a fail? Hint: First sentence.

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Last week, I blogged about the semantics of alarm calls in vervet monkeys. This post will focus solely on the ingenious experiment by Robert Seyfarth, Dorothy Cheney and Peter Marler (1980) to test whether vervet monkey alarm calls convey information or if these calls were just an uncontrollable auditory response to predators. Their question was simple. Would vervet monkey alarm calls alone

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Anti-predatory alarm calls are important  for social animals to alert others of approaching predators. Without the presence of "language", some non-human primates are known to give out different predator-specific alarm calls to alert conspecific. These non-human primates include ring-tailed lemurs (Zuberbühler et al., 1999), white-faced capuchin monkeys (Fichtel et al., 2005), Diana monkeys (

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So there I was last night, at American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) for my first tweetup event. Hosted by AMNH, it was a dinosaur tweetup to preview their upcoming exhibit, The World's Largest Dinosaurs (read the press release here). Apologies for bad photo quality. I forgot my camera and had to use my phone camera instead, which incidentally is running out of battery life as well! The

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The Prancing Papio will be at the Dinosaur Tweetup (throw arms up the air ... YAY!) this Thursday at American Museum of Natural History. If you are a reader of this blog and are going to the Tweetup, please let me know so we can meet beforehand or after. I enjoy meeting my readers and getting to know them better. Let me know on Twitter at @PrancingPapio or email me. Also, you can follow the

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The birth of a baby hamadryas baboon ten days ago was a joyous occasion for Scud and her male, Shapira, at the Safari Park in Ramat Gan, Israel. The arrival of the baby was extra special because she was born with a genetic mutation that made her fur blond (golden yellow). I have cautioned myself by not referring to the color of her fur as "ginger" or red. Instead, I describe it as blond-haired.

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The genus Nomascus are one of the four genus that occurs in the Hylobatid family. Males have erect crown hair thus giving this genus its common name, crested gibbons. Crested gibbons are sexually dichromatic; males and females of the same species have different fur coloring and markings.The males tend to have black fur while females have orange to yellow fur. All species of Nomascus are either

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The following guest post by Eric Michael Johnson is part of the Primate Diaries in Exile blog tour. You can follow other stops on this tour through his RSS feed or follow him on Twitter. If this is your first time visiting The Prancing Papio make sure to browse some of the other posts on the blog. Thanks. - EMJ I had always been afraid of my grandfather and now I was staring at his pale,

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Orangutans, gorillas and chimpanzees do it. Bonobos seem to love doing it. Apparently gibbons do it really well. Indeed, bipedalism is not unique to humans and is quite common among apes. Apes are known to walk upright once in awhile, although bonobos seem to do it more frequently than other apes. Bipedalism is just one of the natural repertoire of ape locomotion. (From left to right) Upright

Raymond Hohttps://profiles.google.com/109347370527155244024noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5854041651395467752.post-53984429421766913042011-01-19T15:43:00.000-05:002011-01-19T15:43:57.446-05:00

Welcome back to another edition of Four Stone Hearth here on The Prancing Papio. I have here a compilation of some of the best Anthropology blog posts on the web last fortnight. Let's begin ... Our first post is from Alun, from Alunsalt, with a very clever word play in his title Archaeologists prove the secret to a successful date is knowing what is on the menu. Next, we have Guy from Historian

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The Prancing Papio will be hosting the #111 edition of Four Stone Hearth next Wednesday, January 19th. The Four Stone Hearth is a blog carnival that specializes in Anthropology in the widest (American) sense of that word. Here, Anthropology is the study of humankind, throughout all times and places, focussing primarily on four lines of research: Archaeology Socio-cultural anthropology

Raymond Hohttps://profiles.google.com/109347370527155244024noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5854041651395467752.post-2298106063424971782010-12-31T19:53:00.000-05:002010-12-31T19:53:09.774-05:00

It's not New Year Eve without writing or at least talk about what you have accomplished throughout the year. I will spare you details of my personal life because I figure most of you probably doesn't really care that in 2010 I adopted a third cat (when she was 2 days old) and became her surrogate mother, sponsored a macaque named Kera at Primarily Primates, volunteered at Prospect Park Zoo and

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Some of you might remember that I was rather unsuccessful in securing a place for graduate school last year. Moving out of the Tri-State area is pretty much out of the question for me (personal reasons). This leaves me with only a handful of viable schools to apply to. The ambitious student that I am, I aimed high and applied to only well known universities. I had my eyes set for either UPenn,

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Just in time to celebrate Monkey Day tomorrow, a new species of lemur is on the verge of being formally acknowledge in science. Primatologist Dr. Russ Mittermeien first spotted this species back in 1995 during one of his expedition to Daraina, Madagascar but said that he did not have any time to follow up with his discovery until now. This "new" species belongs to the genus Phaner or the

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I realized I have not updated my blog for almost a month now, so first and foremost, apologies to my avid readers. I know I have left you high and dry without any post! Since my last post, I have started volunteering at Prospect Park Zoo. The zoo has a special place in my heart (especially the hamadryas baboons) because it is there that I did my research for my Honors Thesis. I never thought I

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Wordless Wednesday are, well, meant to be "wordless" but I've gotten a lot of questions about my Wordless Wednesday post yesterday so I've decided to include more photos and write a little bit about these cute critters. I was up in Philadelphia for the Halloween weekend and no trip to Philadelphia is complete without me going to The Philadelphia Zoo. While there, I managed to catch the

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Raymond Hohttps://profiles.google.com/109347370527155244024noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5854041651395467752.post-59076531369829459102010-10-28T01:46:00.010-04:002010-10-28T19:56:35.602-04:00

With the announcement of the newly discovered Rhinopithecus strykeri yesterday, we were only given a glimpse of this new species through an illustration and a computer modified image (Photoshopped none the less). I bet everyone was wondering why aren't there any pictures of these snub-nosed monkeys. Ponder no more. Here's a photo from National Geographic showing local hunters with a dead R.

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As if fate is testing me, I just had a Facebook conversation yesterday about new species "discoveries" and how ethnocentric they are. I mean, really ... do you really think that until these new species are "discovered" by scientists, no one (even people that lives in the area) knew of these animals? Probably not. Using the word "discovered" to formally acknowledge a species seems antediluvian.

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Raymond Hohttps://profiles.google.com/109347370527155244024noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5854041651395467752.post-23788232731013614132010-10-19T23:50:00.003-04:002010-10-28T16:25:16.401-04:00

Slow loris by Frans Lanting. Photo from The Guardian. I must say, the idea of venomous primates never crossed my mind. While venomous species do exist in mammals, it is much more common in insects, reptiles and fishes. In primates, slow lorises (genus Nycticebus) are thought to be venomous in Thai folklore (Wilde, 1972) but are they really? Nycticebus As of 2010, the genus Nycticebus consists of

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Interspecies grooming between Bonnet macaques (Macaca radiata) and Gray langur (Semnopithecus entellus thersites) at Kalakkad and Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve, India. Photo from TrekNature by Gopi. Interspecies grooming is not unheard of and does occur naturally. While grooming can be dyadic and triadic (or even more), it can also be one-directional. Since grooming is central to primate sociality,

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The Four Stone Hearth is back for yet another exciting edition. Before we begin, I would like to thank Afarensis once more for taking on the ownership of Four Stone Hearth. Thanks for keeping the blog carnival momentum going. I'm happy to host Four Stone Hearth for the third time. It gets better every time I host it! Thanks to those that submitted their entries early, you totally made my life

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The Prancing Papio will be hosting the next edition of Four Stone Hearth next Wednesday (October 13th, 2010). The Four Stone Hearth focus on four subfields: archaeology, socio-cultural anthropology, bio-physical anthropology and linguistic anthropology. The Four Stone Hearth is a blog carnival that specializes in anthropology in the widest (American) sense of that word. Here, anthropology is

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An insightful paper published by Ross et al. (2010), compares zoo-living ape behavior inside their holding and exhibit areas in Lincoln Park Zoo, an accredited member of Association for Zoos and Aquarium (AZA). Zoo animals usually have at least two areas where they are housed (excluding some aquatic animals): the holding area and the exhibit area. During visiting hours and at night, zoo animals

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After more than a thousand suggestions submitted by the public, the two baby hamadryas baboons at Prospect Park Zoo are given the name "Azizi" and "Jabari" respectively. Their names are in Arabic, the language spoken in modern day Egypt (where these baboons can be found). "Azizi" means precious while "Jabari" means brave. Both Azizi (mother, Rebecca) and Jabari (mother, Kaia) are on exhibit

Raymond Hohttps://profiles.google.com/109347370527155244024noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5854041651395467752.post-30577000083169075412010-09-22T20:37:00.002-04:002010-09-22T20:41:25.753-04:00

A new gibbon species have been discovered by researchers, led by Christian Roos, from the German Primate Center (Deutschen Primatenzentrums) and was published on Vietnamese Journal of Primatology. The northern buffed-cheeked gibbons (Nomascus annamensis) live in the rainforests of Annamite Mountains, situated around Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. The northern buffed-cheeked gibbons were once

Raymond Hohttps://profiles.google.com/109347370527155244024noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5854041651395467752.post-22859369347628979732010-09-17T21:23:00.000-04:002010-09-17T21:23:07.521-04:00

Nick at Sapien Games hosted Four Stone Hearth #101 this Wednesday. This is the first edition since Martin Rundkvist handed down Four Stone Hearth to fellow blogger, Afarensis. I had totally forgotten about this week's edition and I'm totally gonna blame it on my cold medication. I'm cereal. Aptly named "The Phoenix Edition", Nick gathered up an impressive collection of Anthro reads for this

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Congratulations to Bole for being the father to two healthy and beautiful babies! Born on July 23rd and July 28th respectively, these two babies are a bundle of joy for mothers Kaia and Rebecca. The last time Prospect Park Zoo had a baboon birth was 6 years ago, a male baboon named Kito to mother Matara and father Simen. Kaia and Rebecca (both 7 years old) were sent from Bucknell

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Do you remember a post last month on pet keeping in animals? If you don't remember or never read it, here's the link (Do animals keep pets?). I just received a link from a friend of mine (Thanks Kristen!) about a long tailed macaque adopting a kitten in Ubud, a town in Bali, Indonesia. Below is a YouTube video of said macaque with his "pet" kitten taken in 2008. Read more about this story on

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In keeping with yesterday's post on sexual maturation, here's an interesting find from YouTube. The Menstruation Story was produced by Disney circa 1946. Quite an interesting video, I might say. With interesting take on the video by Shameless and NYmag.

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Hey girls, your brother will not only pull out your Barbie's head but he will also delay your sexual maturation as well ... allegedly. A interesting study by two behavioral ecologists (Milne & Judge, 2010) on contemporary western society of Australian adults found that: Girls with older brothers experience a delay in menstruation. Girls with older brothers (but with no older sisters) started

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Cheek pouches are bilateral sacs on the lower cheek wall where food moves between the oral cavity and pouches through a slit-like opening (Lambert & Whitham, 2001). Most of us are familiar with cheek pouches in rodents, such as chipmunks, squirrels and hamsters. The cheek pouch is also one of the most important and distinguishing physical characteristics of the cercopithecines. The cheek pouches

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Best. Song. EVER.

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An adult Caquetá titi monkey (Callicebus caquetensis) A new species of titi monkey has been discovered in a Colombian Amazon expedition. Caquetá titi monkey or Callicebus caquetensis is about the size of a domestic cat with a bushy red beard. Totaling to only about 250 individuals, this newly discovered species is also critically endangered due to severe fragmentation of its habitat. Along with

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It's that time again! Welcome to another edition of Four Stone Hearth, hosted here at The Prancing Papio. Submissions for this edition poured in as early as two weeks ago so I wasn't worried about the lack of materials to cover. This is a good sign for Four Stone Hearth as it nears its 100th edition. A big thank you to Judith from Zenobia: Empress of the East for sending me blog posts that had

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Earlier this week, I was lucky to catch this tweet from Stephen, executive director of Primarily Primate: @MonkeysAndBirds (cont) Of the 25 macaques, about 10 of them have no names (only lab numbers tattooed across their chest, so we need good monkey names. I tweeted Stephen and submitted a name. I was lucky that the name was actually picked! Meet #29209. Actually meet Kera. Kera is about 4

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Four Stone Hearth #97 is currently being hosted over at Zenobia: Empress of the East. Head over to the blog and check out some of the best Anthropological blog posts and hopefully you'll bookmark/RSS feed these blogs! After you are done reading Four Stone Hearth #97, please email your submission to me for the next edition. The next Four Stone Hearth (#98) will be held on Wednesday, August 4th

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Can we really take into accounts early observations and writings of non "scholarly" works when it comes to the study of animals? Should we ignore written observations of animals behaviors and ecology if it wasn't written by an academic in a scholarly manner? A paper I found recently details the early work of an Italian army officer named Luigi Fossati and his observations on hamadryas baboons in

Raymond Hohttps://profiles.google.com/109347370527155244024noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5854041651395467752.post-25855929126377643092010-07-12T09:00:00.001-04:002010-07-13T00:20:42.046-04:00

Although Primatology is mainly defined as the scientific study of primates, the definition itself is admittedly broad. Without a doubt, ardent readers of The Prancing Papio know what Primatology is but would you rather define Primatology in a much more descriptive manner? I am for the broad definition of Primatology although it is somewhat vague. I mean, what's easier than to tell people you

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After reading an article from Psychology Today by Hal Herzog, it got me thinking about the idea of pet-keeping. The article "Are Humans The Only Animals That Keep Pets?", claims that humans are the only animal that keeps members of other species for an extended point of time purely for enjoyment. Herzog points out that while some animals are documented having pets, this behavior almost always

Raymond Hohttps://profiles.google.com/109347370527155244024noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5854041651395467752.post-23497414446009315172010-06-19T19:22:00.001-04:002010-06-21T09:29:50.559-04:00

An Emperor tamarin (Saguinus imperator) with his infant. As Fathers Day approaches, I feel that it is appropriate to write a little bit about the Callitrichids. Callitrichids or Callitrichidae are New World Monkeys that includes tamarins and marmosets in it's genera. Callitrichids are generally "small-sized" and can be found in South America (New World). They live in social groups that are

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Photo by Julie Larsen Maher (WCS). The Prospect Park Zoo wants you to help name their Geoffroy’s tamarin twins. Born in April Cannoli and her mate Napoleon, these twins are now about 2 months old and they need a name! Click here to suggest names for the twins. Winning names will be announced on June 21st online. I have personally submitted the name Maya and Milo. What do you think? You can also

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Recent archaeological find in Koobi Fora, Kenya suggests that our early ancestors might have dined on "seafood" to compensate for the energy and nutrition needed for the expansion of the brain. The excavated site dates 1.95 million years ago, which predates Homo erectus, reveals distinct faunal remains (some with evidence of butchery) and Oldowan artifacts. Detailed in latest PNAS edition,

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The Four Stone Hearth is here again! Welcome to the 93rd edition, hosted by yours truly. There wasn't many submissions for this edition so I had to deploy my baboons to prance around the blogosphere in hopes that they will fetch me more blog posts. I am happy to tell you that my baboons did well and came back with lots of goodies. Don't worry, they are just prancing baboons not those terrifying 

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Silver leaf langurs (Trachypithecus cristatus cristatus) Ebony langurs (Trachypithecus auratus auratus) are endemic to the islands of Java but the red morph (like the one above) occurs only in the eastern part. Photo taken at Bronx Zoo's Jungle World. Correction: Thanks to reader Vincent Nijman for pointing out that it is an Ebony langur, not Silver leaf langur. That oughta teach me to write

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The Prancing Papio will be hosting the Four Stone Hearth #93 next Wednesday. The Four Stone Hearth focus on four subfields: archaeology, socio-cultural anthropology, bio-physical anthropology and linguistic anthropology. You are encourage to submit your own work as well as others. Please email me on PrancingPapio at gmail dot com.

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I just love saying, "Another Homo in the family"! Anyways, it seems like a new species of Homo has been identified from a partial skull found in Sterkfontein Caves, near Johannesburg by anthropologist Dr. Darren Curnoe from University of New South Wales (School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences) and paleoanthropologist Dr. Phillip Tobias. This specimen, known only by its museum

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Tomorrow (May 21st, 2010), is Endangered Species Day. It is a day for people to learn about endangered animals and plants and also to share the importance of wildlife conservation with friends and family. I urge you to visit the National Wildlife Federation's website to learn more about Endangered Species Day. The IUCN Red List does a great job highlighting endangered animals and plants, one

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"Home for Oliver" is an inspiring project by Andy Cockrum. Here in his own words:I want to create a web series about the life of Oliver the chimpanzee and efforts to build him a new living area at a Texas sanctuary. My hope is that the series will document, promote and inspire the building of new habitats for Oliver and other captive chimpanzees and monkeys who are cast-offs from the pet trade,

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Four Stone Hearth #92 is now live on Sorting Out Science. So hurry to the website and check out the latest blog posts on this Anthropology carnival. The next Four Stone Heart edition (#93) will be hosted here at The Prancing Papio on May 26th. Please submit your content to the next issue by emailing me (click Contact Me on top). You are encouraged to submit other bloggers' work as well as your

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The Four Stone Hearth is a blog carnival that specializes in anthropology in the widest (American) sense of that word. Here, anthropology is the study of humankind, throughout all times and places, focussing primarily on four lines of research: archaeology socio-cultural anthropology bio-physical anthropology linguistic anthropology Each one of these subfields is a stone in our hearth. Four

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Happy Mother's Day from The Prancing Papio. Being a mother is no easy task. So on this day, we salute all the mothers of the world, animals and human alike. A special Mother's Day wishes to my mummy, my mummy in law, grandma Messier and my late grandmothers. You girls rock! Matara (Mimi), mother of four. One of my favorite hamadryas baboon from The Prospect Park Zoo. Happy Mother's Day, girl! A

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BBC's Meeting the world's smallest primate (click link for the site and video), is being criticized for its inaccurate information.  Made as an educational piece to show that the animal's popularity with tourists is affecting the animals' welfare, poor research and possibly bad editing culminated in some errors. While these errors are minute, they affect the overall educational purpose of this

Raymond Hohttps://profiles.google.com/109347370527155244024noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5854041651395467752.post-44892008153106980752010-05-07T07:02:00.000-04:002010-05-07T07:02:34.431-04:00

Two papers published by Science on the May 7th 2010 issue posit that Neandertal genes exist in all of us (modern humans). The paper by Green et al. drafts the sequence of the Neandertal genome from three Neandertal individuals and compared them with the genomes of five modern humans, while the paper by Burbano et al. explains the method for sequencing target regions of Neandertal DNA. John Hawks

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The concept of "family" and relatedness are prevalent in the animal kingdom. Individuals seem to be able to tell if they are related to one another, probably in effort to avoid incest breeding (to increase fitness). While "phenotype matching" is proposed to be one of the kin recognition mechanism between animals to assess their relatedness, "phenotype matching" using olfactory cues (body odor) 

Raymond Hohttps://profiles.google.com/109347370527155244024noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5854041651395467752.post-26945767189195829632010-04-23T19:52:00.008-04:002010-04-23T20:09:45.157-04:00

Land of Punt, sometimes referred to as Ta-netjer (God's land) by ancient Egyptians was a place where pharaohs organized trading expeditions to. For the ancient Egyptians, Land of Punt is the land of fragrances, giraffes and electrum, among many other exotic items.  Live baboons were among many items brought back from Land of Punt to Egypt. Researchers now think that they know where Land of Punt

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The "discovery" of this new fossil primate species, thought to be more than 11 million years old, is as interesting as how it was found. Quoting from EurekAlert, a jaw bone of this newly discovered fossil primate species was found in a rubbish dump in Catalonia, Spain. Yes, you read that right ... rubbish dump! First of all, out of curiosity , who throws out a fossil. Secondly, I want to know how

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Thought I'd share this interesting observation about desert locust outbreaks in the Guassa Plateau, Ethiopia.  Fashing et al. (2010) observed that geladas (Theropithecus gelada), Ethiopian wolves (Canis simensis) and thick billed raven (Corvus crassirostris) feast on locusts in large quantities during an outbreak and immediately after in the Guassa Plateau. Although geladas are highly specialized

Raymond Hohttps://profiles.google.com/109347370527155244024noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5854041651395467752.post-74721691988061319842010-04-15T17:19:00.001-04:002010-04-15T17:23:12.550-04:00

The 90th edition of Four Stone Hearth is currently being hosted by Cfeagans on A Hot Cup of Joe. Be sure to check it out! In it, he also share with us his concerns with the dwindling response to participate. Poor chap only got 4 submissions! In his own words: Unfortunately, participation has waxed and waned a bit over these few years. I only received four submissions and one of these wasn’t,

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Skull of juvenile male Australopithecus sediba. Photo from National Geographic. The announcement last week of a new hominin, Australopithecus sediba, garnered a lot of media attention and of course among the academic circle. The remains of an adult female and a juvenile male was found deposited inside a cave in Malapa, South Africa by Lee Berger and his 9 year-old son. These fossils are thought

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Michelle from Spider Monkey Tales has an interesting post about her poster: Grooming, group size, and feeding priority in female Rhesus macaques in Cayo Santiago, Puerto Rico. You can check her poster if you happen to be going to the 79th annual AAPA meeting in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

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I hope everyone enjoyed yesterday's April Fools post. No, I am not going on a Bigfoot expedition although I truly am interested in the Bigfoot "phenomenon", in a scientific standpoint. Life has suddenly taken on an interesting turn for me this week. My friend found a 2 day-old kitten near his house and who's an orphan. Next thing I know, I've became the surrogate mother of this adorable kitten.

Raymond Hohttps://profiles.google.com/109347370527155244024noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5854041651395467752.post-78873021834401983012010-04-01T06:55:00.001-04:002010-04-01T07:01:12.757-04:00

My advisor once told me that I should keep my passion for Bigfoot to myself because other primatologists would think I am cuckoo and no one would take my research seriously. However, I'm pretty elated right now and I figured I should share this good news with you, my readers.  I have been selected to be part of an expedition to collect scientific evidence on the existence of Bigfoot. While

Raymond Hohttps://profiles.google.com/109347370527155244024noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5854041651395467752.post-31348546867220707272010-03-29T04:25:00.000-04:002010-03-29T04:25:03.066-04:00

John Hawks on John Hawks Weblog wrote about the undiscovered hominin from Denisova, Siberia. He cautions the usage of "species" when describing this individual as it is too soon to say whether the individual is indeed a distinct species. On SEAArch, Noel Hidalgo Tan wrote about stone tools found in Flores, Indonesia that dates back to about a million years ago. It is still inconclusive whether

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DNA analysis from a finger bone unearthed from Denisova Cave, Siberia might lead to the discovery of an unknown hominin. Dubbed "X-Woman", information from her mitochondrial DNA suggests that she shared a last common ancestor with modern human and Neanderthals about one million years ago. Since Neanderthals and modern humans split at about 500,000 year ago, it suggests that she did not originate

Raymond Hohttps://profiles.google.com/109347370527155244024noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5854041651395467752.post-57195325509609791152010-03-20T13:42:00.002-04:002010-04-13T16:44:38.391-04:00

Comparative photo between a masculine-looking (left) and feminine-looking (right) male. Photo from Dienekes' Anthropology Blog. On Dienekes' Anthropology Blog, he shares with us a study on the correlation between female mate choice (sexual selection) and national health index (DeBruine et al., 2010). Female tend to prefer more masculine-looking males in countries where the national health index

Raymond Hohttps://profiles.google.com/109347370527155244024noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5854041651395467752.post-76386157892708772182010-03-18T09:04:00.003-04:002010-03-18T09:10:23.594-04:00

I've been meaning to start blogging about Four Stone Hearth but I kept forgetting! Four Stone Hearth is published biweekly on Wednesdays. Interested blogger should write to Martin Rundkvist. Here's what Four Stone Hearth (The Fourth Stone Hearth) is according to its website: The Fourth Stone Hearth is a blog carnival that specializes in anthropology in the widest (American) sense of that word.

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The saying "You can't judge a book by its cover" can sometimes be applied to primate mating system and social system. Primate social systems sometimes differ from mating systems, as evidenced by reports of field observation (although sometimes first-hand field observations mistakenly report and link primate social systems to mating systems). For example, geladas (Theropithecus gelada) can be

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This week, A Primate of Modern Aspect discusses what a Haplorrhine is in What makes a Haplorrhine, a Haplorrhine? Go check it out!

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Ethnoprimatology is defined as the approach that draws from primate socioecology, ethnoecology/environmental anthropology, and conservation biology. This approach enable us to see the multifaceted interaction between humans and nonhuman primates in a dynamic ecosystem. It seems to be something I would like to do and learn more. What's a better way to incorporate the fundamentals of cultural

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The IUCN Red List has a Species of the Day feature that highlights species that are threatened of different taxa. Everyday, a species is showcased along with information about the threats they are facing. Species of the Day for March 3, 2010 is a primate name Kipunji (Rungwecebus kipunji). Kipunji are endemic to Tanzania and was first discovered in 2003. For more about Kipunji, also read The

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Laelaps has an interesting post on friendship in male and female baboons. Check out the post, "You just call out my name...": Friendships in Male and Female Baboons. Insightful hypotheses explaining the friendship between male and female baboon. Would love to read more papers and data on this.

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  I find this article, Fear of Spiders Can Develop Before Birth, quite interesting. It seems that newborn crickets "inherit" the fear of spiders from their mother. Compared to newborn crickets whose mothers were not exposed to spiders, those whose mothers were exposed to spiders almost always try to seek shelter to avoid detection from the spiders (which also leads to a higher survival rate).

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Exactly a year ago today, I had a brilliant idea of starting this blog. I figured if I write about the things I do and the things I like, then I wouldn't be bored about it. I was also reading massive amount of papers during that time, interesting papers nonetheless, so I figured I'd share those papers with others that share the same interests like me. Thus, The Prancing Papio was born. While

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Kipunji (Rungwecebus kipunji) Tanzania, Primates in Peril: The World’s 25 Most Endangered Primates 2008–2010 has been compiled by the Primate Specialist Group of IUCN’s Species Survival Commission (SSC) and the International Primatological Society (IPS), in collaboration with Conservation International (CI). © CI/Illustration by Stephen D. Nash A list of the world's 25 most endangered primate

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Spending at least 4 hours per day in front of baboon enclosures when I was observing their grooming behavior means that I get to eavesdrop on what zoo goers have to say when they first see a baboon. The kids (who doesn't really hold back on anything) would usually yell out loud, much to the embarrassment of their parents "OMG look at that ugly red butt". I've been asked many times (they think I

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