Primatology information
Kathleen Bryson: Girl On A Stick (RainbowNetwork.com) A floating blue apparition of the Virgin Mary. That?s what Clementine Logan, jaded American, sees from the window of her No. 38 bus.
Gabon's medical research centre shifts its focus (SciDev.net) A medical research centre in Gabon is stepping up its efforts to become a world-class global health research centre. The International Medical Research Centre, based in Franceville in southeast Gabon, has strong research infrastructure and is primarily funded by the French oil company Total.
Goodall, Nishida win Leakey Prize (San Francisco Chronicle) A foundation named for one of the nation's best-known anthropologists will honor one of the nation's best-known primatologists Friday, kicking off a two-day event exploring how the origins and nature of humanity can be better understood through the study of...
Insight Into The Evolutionary Significance And Causes Of Aggression, Hunting, And Meat Eating In Bonobos, Chimpanzees, ... (Medical News Today) Unlike the male-dominated societies of their chimpanzee relatives, bonobo society - in which females enjoy a higher social status than males - has a "make-love-not-war" kind of image. While chimpanzee males frequently band together to hunt and kill monkeys, the more peaceful bonobos were believed to restrict what meat they do eat to forest antelopes, squirrels, and rodents.
Gabon centre refocuses on emerging diseases (Nature) Incoming director-general aims to reinvigorate medial institution.
Good Weekend for Oct. 31-Nov. 2 (The San Francisco Examiner) There's plenty of fun to be had this Halloween in The City and on the Peninsula. AP What to do this Halloween and the rest of the weekend. Ghoulish improv: True Fiction Magazine, an improv-theater troupe, presents its Halloween show. Using a single suggestion, the group creates intersecting stories.
'Yeti hair' belongs to goat (BBC News) Scientists in the US who examined hairs claimed to belong to a yeti in India say that in fact they belong to a species of Himalayan goat.
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