They will use GPS and laser technology to monitor the populations of Sulawesi crested black macaque.
Pictures of the bundled-up rhesus macaque were spread around the world by social media.
Yasmin Nakhuda said her rhesus macaque is always by her side, even when she sleeps and showers.
The female Sulawesi-crested macaque was tranquilised by a veterinarian with with a gun.
As a two-year-old female Japanese macaque on Koshima Island, she typically ate a wide variety of plants, fungi, and fruits.
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Disturbed by a passing motorcycle rickshaw, a macaque pokes it head from beneath the arch to observe the scene, before retreating nonchalantly into the shade.
The Sulawesi crested macaques are one of seven species of macaque on the Indonesian island which are found nowhere else in the world.
The researchers argue that this health connection is what makes macaque monkeys look longer at symmetrical faces than they do at uneven ones.
That is an implication of unpublished research using macaque monkeys by Doris Tsao and Winrich Freiwald, of the University of Bremen, in Germany.
Mitalipov's breakthrough was the result of merging skin cells of a 9-year-old rhesus macaque male with unfertilized monkey eggs that had the DNA removed.
The antiviral gene comes from a rhesus macaque, and produces a protein called a restriction factor that can resist Aids-causing viruses affecting other animals.
The researchers will look to see if their immune systems respond to the booster shots in the same way that those of the rhesus macaque monkeys did.
In tests on macaque monkeys, the vaccine produces potent antibodies that disable a variety of HIV strains from around the world, something previous vaccines have generally failed to do.
Harvard neurobiology professor Margaret Livingstone found in her research on macaque monkeys that neurons in the brain respond to exaggerated features huge eyes or tiny noses more than to common ones.
Fascinated by this question, Anthony Little of the University of Stirling in Scotland and Annika Paukner of the National Institutes of Health in America established a new study with 93 female macaque monkeys.
The Whitley Wildlife Conservation Trust has recently been awarded a number of key grants and donations, including one from Chester Zoo to cover the cost of the expedition to discover how many of the Sulawesi crested black macaque currently live in the wild.
In the late 1980s, researchers at the University of Parma in Italy found that the brain cells of macaque monkey fired in the same way whether they were making a particular motion (like reaching for a peanut) or watching another monkey or human make that movement.
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