Or rather, its mother’s dinner: a fire-footed rope squirrel. Researchers from the Helmholtz Institute in Germany have been observing this population of sooty mangabey monkeys in Ivory Coast’s ...

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And antibodies to the virus have turned up in a range of animals across Central Africa—including rodents, monkeys, and even shrews. Understanding the role of these squirrels could help prevent ...

Although the virus (mpox for short) was first detected in lab monkeys in 1958, the original host or reservoir has remained unknown. Identifying the reservoir is crucial, because it gives ...

The team studied many species, including black and gold howler monkeys, tufted capuchins, black-capped squirrel monkeys, and Peruvian spider monkeys. They took CT scans of excised monkey larynxes ...

Scientists searched for the mysterious animal host for decades. After years of study, a bit of luck, and one infected monkey, ...

Animal lovers always look for ways to turn their houses into real-time zoos. Even though cats and dogs make ideal pets, the fact that everyone owns one has gotten “too boring”. When talked about the ...

There, researchers recorded and studied the calls of various primate species, including the black and gold howler monkey (Alouatta caraya), tufted capuchin (Sapajus apella), black-capped squirrel ...

This allowed them to see what was going on in the larynx of black and gold howler monkeys, tufted capuchins, black-capped squirrel monkeys and Peruvian spider monkeys. The spider monkey was the ...

Primates studied included the black and gold howler monkey, tufted capuchin, black-capped squirrel monkey, and Peruvian spider monkey. Monkeys, scientists found, had a secret yodelling weapon ...

They sequenced mpox genomes from both monkey and squirrel and found them identical. Next, they pored through old video records of the primates recorded in the park and found footage of a mangabey ...