This project investigates how nighttime foraging ecology shapes social structure in a focal nocturnal primate species. Using night follows, behavioral observations, and mapping of feeding sites, we ...

An introduction to predator sensitive foraging / Lynne E. Miller -- Dangers in the dark: are some nocturnal primates afraid of the dark? / Simon K. Bearder, K.A.I. Nekaris, Courtney A. Buzzell -- ...

As humans evolved to hunt, gather and share food, cooperation provided a key to our success as a species. While chimpanzees and other primates sometimes share food, humans stand out. As ...

Pictured here is a chimpanzee from Ngogo in Uganda's Kibale National Park. Bryce Carlson, a Purdue assistant professor of anthropology who studies primate ecology and nutrition in human evolution, ...

Why do primates have big brains? In the Panamanian rainforest, scientists pitted large-brained primates against smaller-brained mammals to find out who was the smartest forager. Max Planck Institute ...

In a new study, neuroscientists show how decision-making processes are controlled in the primate brain during foraging. The team, including a researcher from the German Primate Center (DPZ) – Leibniz ...

While sitting on swings, platforms or other elevated structures, or clinging to the mesh, individual animals seize a piece of chow [fruit, vegetable or bread] and retrieve a piece [through the mesh of ...

Ben Hirsch receives funding from US National Science Foundation. Thanks to our large brains, humans and non-human primates are smarter than most mammals. But why do some species develop large brains ...