Mastodawn

Spectral #Tarsiers of #Sulawesi #Indonesia 🇮🇩 are moon-loving #primates 🐒 who get busy on a full moon hanging out in small groups 🌝🌛✨ Fight for their survival against #PalmOil #Ecocide and #BoycottPalmOil 🌴🩸🚜🔥🙊🚫 #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetectives https://palmoildetectives.com/2021/02/08/spectral-tarsier-tarsius-tarsier/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Palm+Oil+Detectives&utm_campaign=publer

PaleoAnthropology Journal 2d ago

🦴 PaleoAnthropology 2026 Issue 1 — Primate Evolution

📖 Cooke et al.
Stirtonia victoriae from Colombia
https://paleoanthropology.org/ojs/index.php/paleo/article/view/3992/4003

📖 George Koufos
Mesopithecus of Greece
https://paleoanthropology.org/ojs/index.php/paleo/article/view/3957/4004

#Primates #Evolution

View of Mandibular Specimens of Stirtonia victoriae From the La Victoria Formation, La Venta, Colombia

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Richard Michael Blaber 3d ago

"It is salutary to think that without the #asteroid #collision, #primates might never have reached the level we are at today. But it is equally salutary to consider that modern #humans are causing some of the same changes to the #atmosphere that ultimately killed our #reptilian forbears & may one day also lead to our own demise." Indeed so.

TKSST • seethis.tv 🌈🪐✨6d ago

🐒🎮 A #study involving rhesus #macaques shows that the #animals will engage with touch screen #puzzles even when no food rewards are provided.

Scientists at the University of #Tokyo observed the #primates solving challenges for long periods, suggesting that curiosity and intrinsic motivation are powerful drivers for their behavior. The #research challenges the idea that animal #learning is only motivated by external physical gains.

👉 https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/monkey-video-game-without-reward-b2972968.html

#biology #science #monkeys #psychology #evolution #behavior #gaming

Scientists stumped as lab monkeys play video games without expecting any reward

Findings may lead to a more comprehensive understanding of curiosity

The Independent

Keesey Comics May 10

Happy Mother’s Day (U.S.)! To celebrate *all* of our Cenozoic mothers, here is the newly-finished back cover to PALEOCENE #6, entitled “Mamma’s Children”. See here for details: https://www.patreon.com/posts/mammas-children-157840309?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link

#paleoart #sciart #primates #comics

HuffPost [ES]May 9

🐾 ■ Los científicos no dan crédito: macacos japoneses juegan a un videojuego durante casi 100 partidas seguidas sin recibir ninguna recompensa ■ Los investigadores están completamente sorprendidos tras el comportamiento de los primates.
https://www.huffingtonpost.es/life/animales/los-cientificos-dan-credito-macacos-japoneses-juegan-videojuego-100-partidas-seguidas-recibir-ninguna-recompensa-f202605.html?int=MASTODON_WORLD

#animales #primates

earthling May 8

Gibraltar
‘Monkeys sharing a moment all too familiar to fellow humans.’

Photograph: Bernardo Amorim

#photography
#monkeys
#primates
#AltText

Barbara Niedner May 6

RE: https://mastodon.green/@mongabay/116528168447514976

Wir waren im Gashaka Nationalpark in der Forschungsstation 2025 🥰Mein Profilbild ist dort aufgenommen. ANI macht einen grandiosen Job. Ich konnte in Ruhe Primaten beobachten ohne das sie sich versteckten. Was fehlt sind Primatologen und Schimpansen Forschende! Durch ANI haben wir uns sehr sicher gefühlt. Kommt zurück!
#chimps #primates

Donncha May 6

A Siamang and Her Little Passenger

The siamang barely moved while I framed the shot. Two long arms hooked around the timber, and then a bundle of jet-black fur with two enormous eyes peering up. I'd wandered over to Fota's gibbon island half-expecting the usual whooping chorus, but instead caught this quieter scene: mum holding her ground in a patch of sun, baby latched on to her. The light caught the auburn glints in her coat and the tiny one's startled little face, and I had maybe three seconds before she swung off into the […]

https://inphotos.org/2026/05/06/a-siamang-and-her-little-passenger/

Donncha Ó Caoimh May 6

A Siamang and Her Little Passenger

The siamang barely moved while I framed the shot. Two long arms hooked around the timber, and then a bundle of jet-black fur with two enormous eyes peering up. I’d wandered over to Fota’s gibbon island half-expecting the usual whooping chorus, but instea...

https://inphotos.org/2026/05/06/a-siamang-and-her-little-passenger/

#BabyAnimals #Cork #FotaWildlifePark #gibbon #Ireland #MotherAndBaby #Photo #Photography #primates #siamang #WildlifePhotography #ZooPhotography