This unique volume provides a comprehensive and up-to-date examination of all aspects of the biology of the Old World monkey genus, Theropithecus, which evolved alongside our human ancestors. This ...

Squirrel monkeys (Saimiri spp.) have always been a common sight in zoos, but this seems to have changed in the past few years. Breeding is often poor, and zoos have discovered that this genus is not ...

Their faces and noses are black and they lack the characteristic band between the ear and eye found on other patas monkeys. Mr Gippoliti commented: "The basic concept of the genus Erythrocebus was ...

Macaque monkeys, for example, have at least 32 functionally distinct areas of the cerebral cortex that are devoted primarily to processing visual information (Van Essen et al., 1992; Van Essen ...

The monkeys, belonging to the Saimiri genus, were stolen a week ago from a zoo in La Londe-les-Maures, about 70km (43 miles) east of Marseille. All of the monkeys were microchipped, and one was ...