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2,702 results for: Monkeys
- Health & Medicine
Antibodies show progress against HIV
Proteins suppress disease in monkeys, but don’t cure it.
- Humans
Letters from the September 24, 2005, issue of Science News
Monkey see, monkey smell That monkeys get “weirded out” by seeing themselves in mirrors doesn’t seem unexpected (“Reflections of Primate Minds: Mirror images strike monkeys as special,” SN: 7/23/05, p. 53). Were a familiar or an unfamiliar same-sex capuchin seen, the test subject would be bombarded not just by visual images but also by smells […]
- Health & Medicine
Body & Brain
Cancer treatment raises stroke risk, plus ankle-powered sprints, irregular heartbeats and more in this week’s news.
- Health & Medicine
Brain has two slots for working memory
The left and right hemispheres have equal and independent capacity, monkey study finds.
- Psychology
Kids share, chimps stash
Divvying up goods comes easily to 3-year-old kids but not to adult chimps, a finding with evolutionary implications.
- Health & Medicine
Studies shed light on Ebola’s M.O.
New findings reveal a key step in how the deadly virus infects cells — and identify compounds that may thwart it.
- Life
Cats engineered for disease resistance
Genetically modified felines created in an effort to fight feline immunodeficiency virus.
- Health & Medicine
Vaccine makes headway against trachoma
An experimental immunization might someday aid public health efforts to counter a blinding disease.
- Life
Stopping a real-life ‘Contagion’
An antibody treatment fends off the lethal Hendra virus in monkeys and may also work against the equally dangerous Nipah virus.
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In this article, you report on a study in which it was found that female monkeys raised in a stressful situation drink alcohol to excess only if they possess just the short serotonin-transporter gene. If a positive correlation were to be found in abusers of drugs and alcohol and the presence of two copies of […]
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When I was a teenager, I lived with a brown capuchin monkey. Among other games, we enjoyed trading: his poker chips for my food. When he was out of poker chips, he would improvise by finding pebbles, paper, toys, and other household detritus to trade. When all was traded into my pile, he would give […]
- Animals
Monkey in the mirror
Monkeys with implanted head devices use mirrors to inspect themselves, perhaps signaling self-awareness.
