American Journal of Primatology

Papers
(The median citation count of American Journal of Primatology is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)
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Developmental and environmental modulation of fecal thyroid hormone levels in wild Assamese macaques (Macaca assamensis)23
Best practices are never best: Evaluating primate conservation education programs (PCEPs) with a decolonial perspective22
Prevalence and diversity of gastrointestinal parasites in free‐ranging rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) in different land gradients of Bangladesh22
Rhesus monkey sociality is stable across time and linked to variation in the initiation but not receipt of prosocial behavior20
Obituary and tributes: William Alvin Mason (1926−2023)19
Age‐related changes in hematological biomarkers in common marmosets17
Population densities ofHylobates agilisin forests with different disturbance histories in Ulu Muda Forest Reserve, Malaysia16
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Improving rigor and reproducibility in nonhuman primate research16
Manual preference, performance, and dexterity for bimanual grass‐feeding behavior in wild geladas (Theropithecus gelada)15
Physiologic Consequences of Housing Adult Male Cynomolgus Monkeys (Macaca fascicularis) in Heterosexual Pairs: A Pilot Study Using Implanted Biotelemetry15
A composite menstrual cycle of captive orangutans, with associated hormonal and behavioral variability15
Passive acoustic monitoring using smartphones reveals an alarming gibbon decline in a protected area in the central Annamite Mountains, Vietnam14
Necropsies disclose a low helminth parasite diversity in periurban howler monkeys14
MonkeyMemoirs: Wild Life in an Amazon Wilderness By Thomas R. Defler, Vaupés, Colombia: Huacu Press, 2025. List price $40.00. (Paperback). ISBN: 979‐8‐30‐678374‐114
Joint intergroup aggression in female colobus monkeys (Colobus vellerosus) is associated with grooming bonds, male participation, and group size14
Feeding Platforms as an Effective Strategy to Prevent the Consumption of Refuse by Urban Populations of Capuchin Monkeys (Sapajus libidinosus)13
Environmental and anthropogenic effects on the nesting patterns of Nigeria–Cameroon chimpanzees in North‐West Cameroon13
A habitat stronghold on the precipice: A call‐to‐action for supporting lemur conservation in northeast Madagascar12
Stone Tool Use by Black‐Horned Capuchin Monkeys (Sapajus nigritus cucullatus) in an Urban Park in Londrina, Brazil12
Wild Tibetan Macaques Use a Route‐Based Mental Map to Navigate in Large‐Scale Space12
The relationship between personality, season, and wounding receipt in zoo‐housed Japanese macaques (Macaca fuscata): A multi‐institutional study12
Observational approaches to chimpanzee behavior in an African sanctuary: Implications for research, welfare, and capacity‐building12
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Collective Acoustics in Pan: Conserved Roots in the Evolution of Human Musicality11
The importance of auditory, olfactory, and visual cues for insect foraging in owl monkeys (Aotus nancymaae)11
Plant secondary metabolites and primate food choices: A meta‐analysis and future directions11
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Selectivity in Buttress Drumming Tree Properties Among Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) of the Waibira Community in Budongo Forest, Uganda10
Impacts of climate change and habitat loss on the distribution of the endangered crested capuchin monkey (Sapajus robustus)10
Seasonality of reproduction in wild cotton‐top tamarins (Saguinus oedipus) in Colombia10
Retracted: Tarsier islands: Exploring patterns of variation in tarsier duets from offshore islands of North Sulawesi10
In vitro digestion and fermentation of Japanese macaque (Macaca fuscata) food: The influence of food type and particle size10
The influence of seasonality, anthropogenic disturbances, and cyclonic activity on the behavior of northern sportive lemurs (Lepilemur septentrionalis) at Montagne des Français, Madagascar10
Bared‐teeth displays in bonobos (Pan paniscus): An assessment of the power asymmetry hypothesis10
The social and defensive function of olfactory behaviors in a pair‐living sexually monogamous primate10
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Reproductive one health in primates9
The 10th anniversary of the scientific description of the black snub‐nosed monkey (Rhinopithecus strykeri): It is time to initiate a set of new management strategies to save this critically end9
Use of Nonhuman Primates in Periodontal Disease Research: Contribution of the Caribbean Primate Research Center and Cayo Santiago Rhesus Colony9
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Supplementation With Human Foods Affects the Gut Microbiota of Wild Howler Monkeys9
Fifty+ years of primate research illustrates complex drivers of abundance and increasing primate numbers9
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Individual differences in sociocognitive traits in semi‐free‐ranging rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta)9
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Cortisol levels across the lifespan in common marmosets (Callithrix jacchus)9
A decade of proboscis monkey (Nasalis larvatus) population monitoring in Balikpapan Bay: Confronting predictions with empirical data9
Maternal and offspring behavior in free‐ranging Japanese and moor macaques: A comparative approach9
Developmental milestones in captive Galago moholi9
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Yawn contagion in bonobos: Another group, another story9
Evolutionary history of orangutan plasmodia revealed by phylogenetic analysis of complete mtDNA genomes and new biogeographical divergence dating calibration models8
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Program of the Forty‐Fifth Meeting of The American Society of Primatologists8
Correction to Naïve orangutans (Pongo abelii and Pongo pygmaeus) individually acquire nut‐cracking using hammer tools7
Habitual ground nesting in the Bugoma Forest chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii), Uganda7
Ontogenesis of sociability of wild immature capuchin monkeys (Sapajus libidinosus): Sex more than personality explains interindividual variation7
Male fattening is related to increased seminal quality of squirrel monkeys (Saimiri collinsi): Implications for sperm competition7
Capuchin monkeys' (Sapajus [Cebus] apella) categorization of photos of unknown male conspecifics suggests attention to fWHR and a dominance bias7
Application of a parallel laser apparatus to measure forearms and flanges of wild Bornean orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus wurmbii)7
The relationship of maternal rank, 5‐HTTLPR genotype, and MAOA‐LPR genotype to temperament in infant rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta)7
Teeth Baring as a Model to Understand Complex Facial Signals in a Tolerant Macaque Species7
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Is the long‐tailed macaque at risk of extinction?7
Pied tamarins change their vocal behavior in response to noise levels in the largest city in the Amazon7
Grooming site preferences in black capuchin monkeys: Hygienic vs. social functions revisited7
Group structure, but not dominance rank, predicts fecal androgen metabolite concentrations of wild male mountain gorillas (Gorilla beringei beringei)6
Pigtail Macaque (Macaca nemestrina) Performance Differs Across Multiple Cognitive Domains in Comparison to Rhesus Macaques (Macaca mulatta)6
How individual, social, and ecological conditions influence dispersal decisions in male vervet monkeys6
Energetic Priorities Across the Stages of Development: Effects of Age, Sex, and Seasonal Reproduction on Activity Budgets in Verreaux's sifaka (Propithecus verreauxi)6
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Linking glucocorticoid variations to monthly and daily behavior in a wild endangered neotropical primate6
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Variation in Maternal Effort, Activity Budgets, and Feeding Behavior in Wild Saddleback Tamarins (Leontocebus weddelli) in Northwestern Bolivia6
Polyadic Grooming Patterns and Network in a Free‐Ranging Group of Japanese Macaques at Awajishima6
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Increased physical activity is not related to markers of cardiometabolic health in two lemur species6
Avoiding Cognitive Trap in Habitat Restoration: A Case Study of the World's Rarest Primate6
Investment in science can mitigate the negative impacts of land use on declining primate populations6
Influence of COVID‐19 on the emergence of stone‐tool use behavior in a population of common long‐tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis fascicularis) in Thailand6
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The costs and benefits of coexistence: What determines people's willingness to live near nonhuman primates?5
Investigating infant feeding development in wild chimpanzees using stable isotopes of naturally shed hair5
Dietary flexibility of the greater bamboo lemur (Prolemur simus), a specialized feeder, in eastern Madagascar5
Anthropogenic effects on body size and growth in lab‐reared and free‐ranging Macaca mulatta5
Male chimpanzee sexual coercion and mating success at Ngogo5
Temperature‐Related Differences in Hair Cortisol Among Outdoor‐Housed Rhesus Macaques (Macaca mulatta)5
Social Rank, Female Competition for Food, and Behavioral Time‐Budgets in the Golden Snub‐Nosed Monkey Rhinopithecus roxellana Multi‐Level Society5
Quantitative Analysis of the Carpal Tunnel and Its Inner Structures in Primates5
Stable Isotopes Analysis of Black Lion Tamarins Reveals Increasing Arthropod Consumption When Fruit Productivity Decreases in Forest Fragments5
Maternal feeding benefits of allomaternal care in black‐and‐white colobus (Colobus guereza)5
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CSViewer for Analysts: II. Analytic Tools and Visualization of Founder Lineages, Social Groups, and Reproduction Dynamics of the Cayo Santiago Rhesus Macaque Colony5
Yawn Contagion and Modality‐Matching in the Female‐Bonded Society of Geladas (Theropithecus gelada)5
Increased expression of GAPDH in cynomolgus monkeys with spontaneous cognitive decline and amyloidopathy reminiscent of an Alzheimer's‐type disease is reflected in the circulation4
Social and nonsocial stimuli alter the performance of bonobos during a pictorial emotional Stroop task4
Linking howler monkey ranging and defecation patterns to primary and secondary seed dispersal4
Automated pose estimation in primates4
State‐dependent risky choices in primates: Variation in energy budget does not affect tufted capuchin monkeys' (Sapajus spp.) risky choices4
Oesophagostomum stephanostomum causing parasitic granulomas in wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus) of Taï National Park, Côte d'Ivoire4
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Trigger of twin‐fights in captive common marmosets4
The development of sex differences in play in wild white‐faced capuchins (Cebus capucinus)4
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Advancing primate surveillance with image recognition techniques from unmanned aerial vehicles4
Losing lemurs: Declining populations and land cover changes over space and time4
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Camera traps unveil demography, social structure, and home range of six unhabituated Western chimpanzee groups in the Moyen Bafing National Park, Guinea4
Comparative neuropathology in aging primates: A perspective4
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Establishment and Validation of Fecal Secretory Immunoglobulin A Measurement for Intestinal Mucosal Health Assessment in Wild Lemurs4
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Male Infanticide in the Northern Purple‐Faced Langur (Semnopithecus vetulus Philbricki) in the Kaludiyapukuna Forest Reserve, Sri Lanka4
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Identification of potentially zoonotic parasites in captive orangutans and semi‐captive mandrills: Phylogeny and morphological comparison4
Is Primate Cone Ratio Variation Functional and Adaptive?4
The role of religion in One Health. Lessons from the Hanuman langur (Semnopithecus entellus) and other human–non‐human primate interactions4
Habitat use by the island lemurs of Nosy Be, Madagascar4
Assessing color cues of development, breeding status and reproductive condition in captive golden lion tamarins (Leontopithecus rosalia)4
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Unveiling the Evolutionary History of cis‐Andean Alouatta (Atelidae, Alouattinae) Through Mitochondrial Genomes4
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Diet and seed dispersal of bearded capuchin monkeys (Sapajus libidinosus) in Brasilia National Park4
Coming to the Caribbean: Eighty‐five years of rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) at Cayo Santiago—A rare nonhuman primate model for the studies of adaptation, diseases, genetics, natural disaster4
Influence of landscape structure on previous exposure to Leptospira spp. and Brucella abortus in free‐living neotropical primates from southern Brazil3
Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) adapt their nesting behavior after large‐scale forest clearance and community decline3
Identification of Leishmania infantum and Leishmania braziliensis in captive primates from a zoo in Brazil3
The Earliest Known Radiation of Pitheciine Primates3
Primate conservation: A public issue?3
Comparing the Performances of Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and Gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) in Two Self‐Awareness Tasks3
An effect of canopy bridges on monkey‐vehicle collision hotspots: Spatial and spatiotemporal analyses3
Do zoo‐housed primates retreat from crowds? A simple study of five primate species3
Chimpanzee Activity and Behavioral Diversity Extends Across 24 Hours in Both Captive and Wild Settings3
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Using 3D Photogrammetry to Quantify Usable Space in Zoo‐Housed Primate Habitats3
Edge effects and social behavior in three platyrrhines3
Urinary C‐peptide and total triiodothyronine as energetic biomarkers for studies of lemurs3
Zoo studies in primate physiology, health, and welfare3
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Review of Primates in Anthropogenic Landscapes: Exploring Primate Behavioural Flexibility Across Human Contexts, Edited by TracieMcKinney, SiânWaters, Michelle A.Rodrigues. Cham, Switzerland: S3
Primates and disability: Behavioral flexibility and implications for resilience to environmental change3
A novel methodological approach for group classification during fission of a semi‐free‐ranging group of Japanese macaques (Macaca fuscata)3
Sexual Signaling and Sociosexual Behaviors in Relation to Rank, Parasites, Hormones, and Age in Male Vervet Monkeys (Chlorocebus pygerythrus) in Uganda3
Factors influencing the success of male introductions into groups of female rhesus macaques: Introduction technique, male characteristics and female behavior3
Variation in monthly and seasonal elevation use impacts behavioral and dietary flexibility in Rhinopithecus bieti3
Survival rates and mortality risks of Plecturocebus cupreus at the California National Primate Research Center3
Erratum to Primate cognition in zoos: Reviewing the impact of zoo‐based research over 15 years3
Food availability and male deference in the female‐dominant ring‐tailed lemur, Lemur catta3
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Sniffing behavior of semi free‐ranging Barbary macaques (Macaca sylvanus)3
Program of the Forty‐Third Meeting of The American Society of Primatologists3
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Heritability in the Rhesus Macaque (Macaca mulatta) Vertebral Column3
Taphonomy of harpy eagle predation on primates and other mammals3
Rhesus macaque fetal and placental growth demographics: A resource for laboratory animal researchers3
Mitochondrial DNA for Phylogeny Building: Assessing Individual and Grouped mtGenes as Proxies for the mtGenome in Platyrrhines3
Development and assessment of a stair ascension challenge as a measure of aging and physical function in nonhuman primates3
Dominance and social interaction patterns in brown capuchin monkey (Cebus [Sapajus] apella) social networks3
Cognitive performance of grey mouse lemurs (Microcebus murinus) during a discrimination learning task: Effect of the emotional valence of stimuli3
Greetings among female chimpanzees in Mahale, Tanzania3
Is it for real? Structural differences between play and real fighting in adult chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)3
What we know and don't know about great ape cultural communication in the wild3
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Performance of autonomous recorders to detect a cryptic and endangered primate species, the black lion‐tamarin (Leontopithecus chrysopygus)3
Nutrient balancing in a fruit‐specialist primate, the black‐and‐white ruffed lemur (Varecia variegata)2
Detection of Filariid Infections in Mexican Primate Populations Through qPCR2
Preliminary isotopic assessment of weaning in bonobos shows evidence for extended nursing, sibling competition and invested first‐time mothers2
Rare Long‐Term Data Reveal the Seasonal Dietary Plasticity of Mandrills (Mandrillus sphinx) in Response to Fruiting Tree Phenology2
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Examining postmounting grooming in male golden snub‐nosed monkeys to investigate the functions of same‐sex mounts2
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Drinking frequency in wild lactating chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) and their offspring2
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Correction to “Neutrophil to Lymphocyte Ratio in Captive Olive Baboons (Papio anubis): The Effects of Age, Sex, Rearing, Stress, and Pregnancy”2
Personality Assessment of Synanthropic Rhesus Macaques: Implications and Challenges2
How Do Common Marmosets Maintain the Balance Between Response Execution and Action Inhibition?2
The ability to inhibit impulses is related to social behavior in long‐tailed macaques2
Emotional states following grooming in female mandrills2
Sensitivity to the communicative partner's attentional state: A developmental study on mother–infant dyads in wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii)2
What fecal analyses reveal about Manniophyton fulvum consumption in LuiKotale bonobos (Pan paniscus): A medicinal plant revisited2
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The impacts of seasonal variation and climate on food utilization in a population of critically endangered cotton‐top tamarins (Saguinus oedipus) in Colombia: A 22‐year longitudinal study2
Repeatability of measures of behavioral organization over two years in captive infant rhesus macaques, Macaca mulatta2
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Correction to “Leopard predation on gelada monkeys at Guassa, Ethiopia”2
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Examining predictive meteorological variables in the singing behavior of northern white‐cheeked gibbons (Nomascus leucogenys) in northern Lao PDR2
Beware! Different methods lead to divergent results on yawn contagion modulation in bonobos2
Can we eliminate the primate pet trade in the United States?2
Alternative reproductive tactics of unflanged and flanged male orangutans revisited2
Factors Affecting the Diet and Activity Budget of Wild Tibetan Macaques (Macaca thibetana)2
Evaluating the impact of environmental education around Ranomafana National Park2
Why Didn't the Sifaka Cross the Road? Divergence of Propithecus edwardsi Gut Microbiomes Across Geographic Barriers in Ranomafana National Park, Madagascar2
Eat the fruit earlier: Sakis (Pithecia chrysocephala) show enhanced temporal fruit resource access compared with squirrel monkeys (Saimiri sciureus) in an urban forest fragment in Brazil2
Fruit Availability and Maternal Energy Expenditure Associated With Infant Independence in an Arboreal Primate (Colobus angolensis ruwenzorii)2
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Effects of forest fragmentation on the dietary ecology and activity of a nocturnal lemur community in North West Madagascar2
First observation of a chimpanzee with albinism in the wild: Social interactions and subsequent infanticide2
Is the southern patas monkey Erythrocebus baumstarki Africa's next primate extinction? Reassessing taxonomy, distribution, abundance, and conservation2
Mothers of disabled infants had higher cortisol levels in a free‐ranging group of Japanese macaques (Macaca fuscata)2
Socially mediated overlap in vocal interactions between free‐ranging black howler monkeys2
Initial compatibility during a “Speed‐Dating” test predicts postpairing affiliation in titi monkeys (Plecturocebus cupreus)2
The impact of housing on birth outcomes in breeding macaque groups across multiple research centers2
Social tension after grooming in wild Japanese macaques (Macaca fuscata yakui) is sex specific and sensitive to social relationships2
Landscape and conservation genetics of western black crested gibbons (Nomascus concolor) in China2
Flexible grouping patterns in a western and eastern chimpanzee community2
The Gombe Ecosystem Health Project: 16 years of program evolution and lessons learned2
Dental findings in wild great apes from macerated skull analysis2
Urine washing in urban robust capuchin monkeys (Sapajus sp.): The relation with visitors2
Habitat and ecological niche characteristics of the elusive Hairy‐eared Dwarf Lemur (Allocebus trichotis) with updated occurrence and geographic range data2
Improving transparency—A call to include social housing information in biomedical research articles involving nonhuman primates2
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Early‐life behavioral features are associated with chronic emesis in rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta)2
Expanded distribution and predicted suitable habitat for the critically endangered yellow‐tailed woolly monkey (Lagothrix flavicauda) in Perú2
Do chimpanzees enjoy a virtual forest? A pilot investigation of the use of interactive art as a form of environmental enrichment for zoo‐housed chimpanzees2
Eyeblink rate as an indicator of concentration on grooming in Japanese macaques (Macaca fuscata)2
Temperature and exudativory as drivers of the marmoset (Callithrixspp.) daily activity period2
COVID‐19 in a common woolly monkey (Lagothrix lagothricha): First evidence of fatal outcome in a nonhuman primate after natural SARS‐CoV‐2 infection2
Survey‐rated personality traits and experimentally measured coping style and stress reactivity, in wild baboons2
Are demographic correlates of white‐faced capuchin monkey (Cebus capucinus) “Gargle and Twargle” vocalization rates consistent with the infanticide risk assessment hypothesis?2
Prosocial or photo preferences? Gorillas' prosocial choices using a touchscreen2
Do zoo animals use off‐exhibit areas to avoid noise? A case study exploring the influence of sound on the behavior, physiology, and space use of two pied tamarins (Saguinus bicolor)2
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First noncontact millimeter‐wave radar measurement of heart rate in great apes: Validation in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)1
Oxytocin increases during fur‐rubbing regardless of level of social contact in tufted capuchin monkeys1
Correction to “Stable Isotopes Analysis of Black Lion Tamarins Reveals Increasing Arthropod Consumption When Fruit Productivity Decreases in Forest Fragments”1
The gut microbiota of gibbons across host genus and captive site in China1
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Great ape health watch: Enhancing surveillance for emerging infectious diseases in great apes1
Osteology applied to image diagnosis of the forelimb of the black‐striped capuchin (Sapajus libidinosus Spix, 1823)1
Adult male–female social bond advertising: The primary function of coordinated singing intensity in a small ape1
Behavioral thermoregulation in primates: A review of literature and future avenues1
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Importance of Plant Galls to the Diet and Nutrition of a Frugivorous Primate, Varecia variegata1
Time for action: Introduction to the special issue on conservation education in monkeys and strepsirrhines1
Analytical and biological validation of a noninvasive measurement of glucocorticoid metabolites in feces of Geoffroy's spider monkeys (Ateles geoffroyi)1
Electrocutions in Free‐Ranging Platyrrhine Nonhuman Primates: Diagnostic Features for a Threatening Condition1
Eye‐tracking as a window into primate social cognition1
Impact of Botfly Parasitism on the Behavior of Mantled Howler Monkeys1
Sex differences in the acoustic structure of terrestrial alarm calls in vervet monkeys (Chlorocebus pygerythrus)1
Determinants of macaques' space use: A test for the ecological constraints model using GPS collars1
Population assessment of the Endangered Kashmir Gray Langur (Semnopithecus ajax, Pocock 1928) using the double‐observer method1
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