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Behavior and Ecology

Abnormal Behavior

• Self-biting in Caged Macaques: Cause, Effect and Treatment  (by Viktor Reinhardt and Matt Rossell)
• Towards an understanding of stereotypic behaviour in laboratory macaques  (by Nora Philbin)

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Cognition/Intelligence

• Lucy to Language: The Archaeology of the Social Brain  (British Academy Centenary Research Project)
• MIT Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science  
• Nova: Ape Genius  
• Primate Cognition and Behavior Laboratory, University of Georgia  
• The Role of Language in Intelligence  
• Theory of Mind in Nonhuman Primates  (by C.M. Heyes, published in Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 1998)
• Video library: Working memory of numerals  (Dr. Tetsuro Matsuzawa)
• What Are They Thinking?  (PBS, Scientific American Frontiers)

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Communication

• A Conversation with Koko  
• ChimpFACS  (An observational, scientific tool to record and analyse facial expressions in chimpanzees)
• Development of the Chimpanzee Facial Action Coding System  (Emory University)
• Die long calls der Callitrichidae: Ein Beitrag zu ihrer Phylogenie  (by Dr. T. Geissmann, PDF in German)
• Evolution of Language: Cognitive Preadaptations  (by James R. Hurford, University of Edinburgh)
• Human Communication as a Primate Heritage  (by Anne Zeller, University of Toronto)
• Language in Animals  (by Britta Osthaus, University of Exeter)
• Pointing Primates: Sharing Knowledge ... Without Language  (Chronicle of Higher Education, January 19, 2001)
• Vokalisationen des Silbergibbons  (by Markus Kappeler, 1977, in German)

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Comparative

• A Comparison of Some Similar Chimpanzee and Human Behaviors  (essay by James Q. Jacobs)

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Ecology

• African Ape Study Sites  
• Integrative Primate Socio-Ecology  
• The Javan Silvery Gibbon (Hylobates lar moloch): Ecology and Behaviour  (1981 dissertation by Markus Kappeler)

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Ethograms

• Ethograms  (Includes categories: Apes, New World Monkeys, Old World Monkeys and Prosimians)
• Gorilla Ethograms  

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Feeding

• A Note on the Chance Preying by a Western Tarsier on Fruit Bats in Malaysian Borneo  
• Diet and Feeding Behaviour of the Moloch Gibbon  (by Markus Kappeler)
• Eating What Comes Naturally: An Examination of Some Differences Between the Dietary Components of Humans and Wild Primates  (by Katherine Milton, UC-Berkeley)

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Learning (Language, problem solving, tool use)

• A Basic Dictionary of ASL Terms  
• A Conversation With Koko  (from PBS)
• A Guide to the Cultures of Chimpanzees  (PDF)
• Are Nonhuman Species Capable of Language Acquisition?  
• Can Chimps Talk?  (Transcript of the NOVA program)
• Can Chimps Talk?: Slithy Toves of Chimpanzees  (by Robert Beard, Bucknell University)
• Can Primates Talk?  
• Chimp Talk Debate  
• Chimpanzee Communication  
• Digital Documentary: Koko TV  
• Language of Bonobos  (Great Ape Trust of Iowa)
• Machiavellian Monkeys & Shakespearean Apes: The Question of Primate Language  (by Alex Hawes, Zoogoer, 1995)
• Primate Use of Language  
• Primate Use of Tools  
• Primatech  (Orangutan sign language project)
• Signing Primates  
• The Sounds of Language  (about Sue Savage-Rumbaugh)
• Tool Use  (lecture by Bill Sellers)

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Parenting

• Parent-Offspring Conflict in Primates  (by Dario Maestripieri, Int J Prim. 23(4), 2002)
• Parenting in Primates  (by Kim A. Bard, from "Handbook of Parenting: Biology and Ecology of Parenting Vol. 2," 1995)

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Predation

• A Note on the Chance Preying by a Western Tarsier on Fruit Bats in Malaysian Borneo  
• Dr. Craig B. Stanford: The Predatory Behavior and Ecology of Wild Chimpanzees  

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Reproduction

• Table of reproduction data  (Includes mating system, age at first birth, gestation length, litter size, birth rate, neonate weight, age and weight at weaning; Supplementary material to: Lindenfors P. Sexually antagonistic selection on primate size. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 2002; 15 (4): 595-607)

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Sexual Behavior

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Sleep

• Primate Sleep  (transcript of Primate-Talk discussion and general bibliography)

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Social Behavior

• Binti, Interspecies Relations, and Wildlife Conservation  
• Birth Time Decides the Mating Seasonality in Primates  (by Shuyi Zhang)
• Chimpanzee Cultures  (includes a database of chimpanzee behavior)
• Chimps R Us  (PBS: Scientific American Frontiers)
• Dr. Craig B. Stanford: The Predatory Behavior and Ecology of Wild Chimpanzees  
• Humor in Primates  
• Imo the Amazing  (Cultural transmission in macaques)
• Ishasha Home Page  (Chimpanzee behavior)
• Kinds of Fear  (Why Files, April 30, 1998)
• Primate Behavior  (lecture by Bill Sellers)
• Primate Social Intelligence  (by R. P. Worden)
• The Nature of Love  (by Harry F. Harlow)
• The Paula Gordon Show: Conversations with Frans de Waal  
• Vocal Bouts and Territorial Maintenance in the Moloch Gibbon  (by Markus Kappeler, 1984)

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