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Terrible fires in Argentina devastate howler monkey research area 

Terrible fires in Corrientes, Argentinan, devastate Sann Cayetano Provincial Park leaving over half the howler monkeys at Estación Biológica Corrientes unaccounted for, read more here...

New International Center of Biodiversity and Primate Conservation in China

The new ICBPC is housed at Dali University, Yunnan Province, and read more...

The IJP seeks to appoint a new Associate Editor

The International Journal of Primatology is the official journal of the International Primatological Society. It is a multidisciplinary forum devoted to the dissemination of current research in fundamental Primatology. Read more...

Covid Chronicals: New IPS series on the impact of Covid on primates and primatologists

Primatologists from around the world have been contributing to a series of IPS short reports on “The Status of Primates, Primatologists, & Primatological Research & Conservation during COVID-19” Follow along on twitter or facebook #IPSCovidChronicals & please share these stories. Our first reports come from the African Primatological Society President Prof. Inza Koné can be read here... and Dr Steve Ross, Director of the Lester Fisher Centre fot the Study and Conservation of Apes at Lincoln Park Zoo can be read here...

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Object Manipulation and Tool Use in Nicobar Long-Tailed Macaques (Macaca fascicularis umbrosus)

Jayashree Mazumder & Stefano S. K. Kaburu

Object manipulation and tool use by nonhuman primates have received considerable attention from primatologists and anthropologists, because of their broad implications for understanding the evolution of tool use in humans. To date, however, most of the studies on this topic have focused on apes, given their close evolutionary relationship with humans. In contrast, fewer studies on tool use and object manipulation have been conducted on monkeys...read more

Comparing Methods for Assessing Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) Party Size: Observations, Camera Traps, and Bed Counts from a Savanna-Woodland Mosaic in the Issa Valley, Tanzania