Conservation medicine is a discipline in which researchers and conservationists study and
respond to the dynamic interplay between animals, humans, and the environment. From a …

Successful reconstruction of any aspect of human evolution ideally requires broad‐based
comparisons with other primates, as recognition of general principles provides a more …

The last decade's lemur research includes successes in discovering new living and extinct
species and learning about the distribution, biogeography, physiology, behavior, and …

Referential models based on extant African apes have dominated reconstructions of early
human evolution since Darwin's time. These models visualize fundamental human …

The status of many carnivore populations is of growing concern to scientists and
conservationists, making the need for data pertaining to carnivore distribution, abundance …

This comprehensive introductory text integrates evolutionary, ecological, and demographic
perspectives with new results from field studies and contemporary noninvasive molecular …

Several elements of the Ardipithecus ramidus foot are preserved, primarily in the ARA-VP-
6/500 partial skeleton. The foot has a widely abducent hallux, which was not propulsive …

The extraction and immunoassay of fecal steroids is an increasingly common technique,
used in both captive and field studies to provide an approximation of an animal's circulating …

This study tested the “challenge hypothesis” and rank-based predictions for temporal steroid
production in male tufted capuchin monkeys, Cebus apella. Fecal samples (n= 209) …

This paper reviews recent advances in field endocrinology, a focus as well as a method in
primatology and behavioral ecology that permits the examination of social behavior and life …