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SIV to HIV: Monkeying Around with an Epidemic.
When I talk with friends about primates and disease, it always surprises me how many are unaware as to how SIV came to be associated with HIV. The long misguided associations of it being a “gay flu,”...
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Thyme for something new? Orangutans and new food choices.
In light of Endangered Species Day, I found an interesting study involving one of my favorite endangered species, the Bornean orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus) that resonated with me. When I was younger, I...
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The Odd Couple: An Orphaned Baboon and Bush Baby.
The yellow baboon orphan with the orphaned bush baby (Photo by: AP Photo) At first, it sounds like the start of a terrible joke. (“An orphaned baboon and orphaned bush baby are together and …”) But...
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R.I.P. Toshisada Nishida.
With great sadness, I write about the passing away of Japanese primatologist, Professor Toshisada Nishida. Nishida studied chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) and was considered the leading...
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A Primate Hand-Guide to Responding to Environmental Disturbances.
Yesterday morning, I woke up at 5am to winds at a high speed. About thirty seconds later, there was a torrential downpour. A minute after that, tornado sirens rang. In the course of three minutes after...
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Getting “Mean Girled” in the Baboon World: The Price of Being Sexy.
By now, I know of few people who haven’t seen the movie, Mean Girls. But in case you haven’t, here’s what you should know about it: the story is essentially an explanation of social cliques and...
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Helping Primates as Helping Ourselves.
I didn’t understand the value of hunting until I was 10 years old. I never had an opinion on it either way, but I could never understand why someone would just want to go out and kill an animal. It...
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Living with Lemurs.
A red ruffed lemur (Varecia rubra) lazing about. (Photo by: CCH) It wasn’t my intention not to update, but over the past two weeks I’ve been busy in training and preparing to start data collection....
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Veloma.
The night before I came to the reserve, I was up at 2:30am, looking at the clock in a cockroach-laden hotel thinking to myself: what if I didn’t like the lemurs? I didn’t expect to be empowered. And I...
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Aye-ayes: the Halloween primate?
It creeps in the night. Where it lives, it is considered the harbinger of death and doom. One of the hypotheses for how it obtained its name is from European travelers seeing it and shrieking loudly....
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