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Robert W. Shumaker
The amazing true stories of the greatest wildlife champions of our time.Wildlife conservation is at a critical juncture. While large, charismatic mammals may be the first animals that come to mind—the mere 3,000 wild tigers still in existence, the
When published in 1980, Benjamin B. Beck's Animal Tool Behavior was the first volume to catalog and analyze the complete literature on tool use and manufacture in non-human animals. Beck showed that animals—from insects to primates—employed diffe
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LearningbehaviorReferences.
Orangutans use stone tools in a variety of modes, including cutting. This behavior appears to be learned from trusted social partners.
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Adriano R Lameira, Madeleine E Hardus, Adrian M Bartlett, Robert W Shumaker, Serge A Wich, Steph B J Menken
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PLoS ONE, Vol 10, Iss 1, p e116136 (2015)
The evolutionary origins of speech remain obscure. Recently, it was proposed that speech derived from monkey facial signals which exhibit a speech-like rhythm of ∼5 open-close lip cycles per second. In monkeys, these signals may also be vocalized,
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Holly M. Dunsworth, Shauhin E. Alavi, Jacob Plange-Rhule, Brian M. Wood, Fransiska Sulistyo, Samuel S. Urlacher, Stephen R. Ross, Amy Luke, David A. Raichlen, Jessica M. Rothman, Jacob A. Harris, Dale A. Schoeller, Brian Hare, Herman Pontzer, Terrence Forrester, Audax Mabulla, Erin R. Vogel, Melissa Emery Thompson, Robert W. Shumaker, Mary H. Brown, Didik Prasetyo, Lara R. Dugas, Pascal Bovet, Kara K. Walker
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Current biology : CB. 31(8)
Summary To sustain life, humans and other terrestrial animals must maintain a tight balance of water gain and water loss each day. 1 , 2 , 3 However, the evolution of human water balance physiology is poorly understood due to the absence of comparati
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Robert W. Shumaker
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Japanese Journal of Animal Psychology. 68:105-119
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Robert W. Shumaker, Adriano R. Lameira
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Scientific reports, 2019, Vol.9(1), pp.12289 [Peer Reviewed Journal]
Scientific Reports, Vol 9, Iss 1, Pp 1-6 (2019)
Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports, Vol 9, Iss 1, Pp 1-6 (2019)
Scientific Reports
A.R.L. was supported by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Program under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement no. 702137. Active voicing – voluntary control over vocal fold oscillation – is essential for speech. No
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ACI
Automated methods have a long history of usage in great ape psychology research, from early behaviorism techniques involving levers and lights, to modern-day computerized touch-panel tasks. Beyond research, these methods can also facilitate the well-
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Robert W. Shumaker, David R. Samson
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American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 157:421-427
The nightly construction of arboreal sleeping platforms or "nests" has been observed among every great ape population studied to date. However, this behavior has never been reported in any other nonhuman primate and comparisons between ape and monkey
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Mary H. Brown, Herman Pontzer, Estelle V. Lambert, Melissa Emery Thompson, David A. Raichlen, Kara K. Walker, Dale A. Schoeller, Terrence Forrester, Pascal Bovet, Amy Luke, Holly M. Dunsworth, Robert W. Shumaker, Stephen R. Ross, Jacob Plange-Rhule, Brian Hare, Ramon Durazo-Arvizu, Lara R. Dugas
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Nature, vol. 533, no. 7603, pp. 390-392
Humans are distinguished from the other living apes in having larger brains and an unusual life history that combines high reproductive output with slow childhood growth and exceptional longevity. This suite of derived traits suggests major changes i