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While some species of nonhuman primates produce technologies that assist in foraging, humans are uniquely dependent on technology for survival. But the evolutionary origins of this reliance on technology for survival is shrouded in mystery. – Tom Plummer	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The individual targeted facilities of smaller primates and specifically compromised the Squirrel Monkey exhibit. – Dallas Zoo	Found on CNN 1 year ago
To get an idea of what Ignacius looked like, imagine a cross between a lemur and a squirrel that was about half the size of a domestic cat, unlike living primates, Ignacius had eyes on the sides of its head (instead of facing forward like ours) and it had claws on its fingers and toes instead of nails. – Chris Beard	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The most surprising thing for me is that it has taken until 2021 to recognize that giraffes have a complex social system. We have known for decades about other species of socially complex mammal, such as elephants, primates and cetaceans, but it is baffling to me how such a charismatic and well-known species as the giraffe could have been so understudied until recently. – Zoe Muller	Found on CNN 2 years ago
We also have to see if our method works on larger mammals. We would think of pigs, dogs or primates, for example, then, if it works there, we would have to make sure that the therapy is safe for humans too. But that will certainly take many, many years. – Dietmar Fischer	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
Because of the similar immune response of [nonhuman primates] and human beings, [nonhuman primate] models are better to evaluate vaccines than other animals. – Chuan Qin	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
This is unusual, because you just don't see squirrel monkeys or non-human primates having rheumatoid arthritis. It's not diagnosed very frequently, and this is a young animal. Most of the time, if you're going to see it in animals, it's older animals, where they've got chronic inflammation. – Bobby Collins	Found on CNN 5 years ago
In much the same as a company with minimal overheads is more able to weather out an economic downturn,( if) a species needs less energy to live, it is more likely to survive periods when there is decreased food availability, in fact, it has recently been demonstrated that the energy expenditure of humans and other primates is remarkably low compared with other placental mammals, and that this may be linked to our long lifespan. – Danny Longman	Found on CNN 5 years ago
We thought that they had historically been much more resilient to human effects, but in fact they've actually been suffering for much longer than we thought, this will hopefully highlight the plight of gibbons and other primates in particular. – James Hansford	Found on CNN 5 years ago
They are still terribly under weight, some of them look a bit dehydrated ... the condition of most of those primates is just simply not acceptable. – Sue Mousley	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We will next test the vaccine in non-human primates and initiate clinical product manufacturing. We plan to initiate Phase I human testing of our Zika vaccine before the end of 2016. – Inovio Chief Executive Joseph Kim	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I think it's going to be a very lucky year for all of us who care about monkeys, apes, primates and animals in general but particularly the primates, and I hope that it will be a year where we can really draw attention to the wonderful monkeys and apes of China and the rest of Asia because they badly need our help, we really need to step up conservation. And what better time to do it than the Year of the Monkey. – Jane Goodall	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I think this behavior is so simple, so primitive that I think the machinery that drives the mice will be very similar to the machinery that drives humans as well, but, of course, we need to do further studies on those [mechanisms] in humans or other primates, to see whether this is the case there. – Tamas Horvath	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
But, of course, we need to do further studies on those [mechanisms] in humans or other primates, to see whether this is the case there. – Tamas Horvath	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Finding primates was a possibility, but they are very rare and very small, so yea, in the end, it was a surprise. – Ken Campbell	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
In light of the tremendous physical and psychological harm done to primates used in these NIH experiments and the absence of any gains made as a result, it would seem to be amply clear that these experiments simply cannot be justified. – Alka Chandna	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The human animal differs from the lesser primates in his passion for lists of "Ten Best". – H. Allen Smith	added by anonymous 13 years ago

While some species of nonhuman primates produce technologies that assist in foraging, humans are uniquely dependent on technology for survival. But the evolutionary origins of this reliance on technology for survival is shrouded in mystery.

– Tom Plummer

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The individual targeted facilities of smaller primates and specifically compromised the Squirrel Monkey exhibit.

– Dallas Zoo

Found on CNN
1 year ago

To get an idea of what Ignacius looked like, imagine a cross between a lemur and a squirrel that was about half the size of a domestic cat, unlike living primates, Ignacius had eyes on the sides of its head (instead of facing forward like ours) and it had claws on its fingers and toes instead of nails.

– Chris Beard

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The most surprising thing for me is that it has taken until 2021 to recognize that giraffes have a complex social system. We have known for decades about other species of socially complex mammal, such as elephants, primates and cetaceans, but it is baffling to me how such a charismatic and well-known species as the giraffe could have been so understudied until recently.

– Zoe Muller

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We also have to see if our method works on larger mammals. We would think of pigs, dogs or primates, for example, then, if it works there, we would have to make sure that the therapy is safe for humans too. But that will certainly take many, many years.

– Dietmar Fischer

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

Because of the similar immune response of [nonhuman primates] and human beings, [nonhuman primate] models are better to evaluate vaccines than other animals.

– Chuan Qin

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

This is unusual, because you just don't see squirrel monkeys or non-human primates having rheumatoid arthritis. It's not diagnosed very frequently, and this is a young animal. Most of the time, if you're going to see it in animals, it's older animals, where they've got chronic inflammation.

– Bobby Collins

Found on CNN
5 years ago

In much the same as a company with minimal overheads is more able to weather out an economic downturn,( if) a species needs less energy to live, it is more likely to survive periods when there is decreased food availability, in fact, it has recently been demonstrated that the energy expenditure of humans and other primates is remarkably low compared with other placental mammals, and that this may be linked to our long lifespan.

– Danny Longman

Found on CNN
5 years ago

We thought that they had historically been much more resilient to human effects, but in fact they've actually been suffering for much longer than we thought, this will hopefully highlight the plight of gibbons and other primates in particular.

– James Hansford

Found on CNN
5 years ago

They are still terribly under weight, some of them look a bit dehydrated ... the condition of most of those primates is just simply not acceptable.

– Sue Mousley

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We will next test the vaccine in non-human primates and initiate clinical product manufacturing. We plan to initiate Phase I human testing of our Zika vaccine before the end of 2016.

– Inovio Chief Executive Joseph Kim

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I think it's going to be a very lucky year for all of us who care about monkeys, apes, primates and animals in general but particularly the primates, and I hope that it will be a year where we can really draw attention to the wonderful monkeys and apes of China and the rest of Asia because they badly need our help, we really need to step up conservation. And what better time to do it than the Year of the Monkey.

– Jane Goodall

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I think this behavior is so simple, so primitive that I think the machinery that drives the mice will be very similar to the machinery that drives humans as well, but, of course, we need to do further studies on those [mechanisms] in humans or other primates, to see whether this is the case there.

– Tamas Horvath

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

But, of course, we need to do further studies on those [mechanisms] in humans or other primates, to see whether this is the case there.

– Tamas Horvath

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Finding primates was a possibility, but they are very rare and very small, so yea, in the end, it was a surprise.

– Ken Campbell

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

In light of the tremendous physical and psychological harm done to primates used in these NIH experiments and the absence of any gains made as a result, it would seem to be amply clear that these experiments simply cannot be justified.

– Alka Chandna

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The human animal differs from the lesser primates in his passion for lists of "Ten Best".

– H. Allen Smith

added by anonymous
13 years ago

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