Molecular Ecology and Natural History of Simian Foamy Virus Infection in Wild-Living Chimpanzees
- Weimin Liu, M. Worobey, B. Hahn
- BiologyPLoS Pathogens
- 1 July 2008
The first comprehensive survey of simian foamy viruses infection in free-ranging chimpanzees using newly developed, fecal-based assays indicates that SFVcpz is widely distributed among all chimpanzee subspecies and is transmitted predominantly by horizontal routes.
Monkeys in the Middle: Parasite Transmission through the Social Network of a Wild Primate
- Andrew J. J. MacIntosh, A. Jacobs, Alexander D. Hernandez
- BiologyPLoS ONE
- 5 December 2012
Social mediated exposure appears to be important for direct transmission of nematode parasites among females in a wild group of Japanese macaques, lending support to the idea that a classical fitness trade-off inherent to living in groups can exist.
Current evidence for self-medication in primates: A multidisciplinary perspective
- M. Huffman
- Biology
- 1997
Insight is provided into the evolution of medicinal behavior in modern humans and the possible nature of self-medication in early hominids with the existence of an underlying mechanism for the recognition and use of plants and soils with common medicinal or functional properties.
Animal self-medication and ethno-medicine: exploration and exploitation of the medicinal properties of plants
- M. Huffman
- BiologyProceedings of the Nutrition Society
- 1 May 2003
In light of the growing resistance of parasites and pathogens to synthetic drugs, the study of animal self-medication and ethno-medicine offers a novel line of investigation to provide ecologically-sound methods for the treatment of parasites using plant-based medicines in populations and their livestock living in the tropics.
Descriptive epidemiology of fatal respiratory outbreaks and detection of a humanârelated metapneumovirus in wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) at Mahale Mountains National Park, Western Tanzania
- T. Kaur, Jatinder Singh, T. Nishida
- Biology, MedicineAmerican Journal of Primatology
- 11 June 2008
Preliminary evidence is provided that the causative agent associated with these illnesses is viral and contagious, possibly of human origin; and that, possibly more than one agent may be circulating in the population.
Self-Medicative Behavior in the African Great Apes: An Evolutionary Perspective into the Origins of Human Traditional Medicine
- M. Huffman
- Biology
- 1 August 2001
By observing a similarly sick young porcupineingest the roots of Mulengelele, a growing body of scientific evidence has been gathered in support of animal self-medication, or zoopharmacognosy (Huffman 1997); and putting these lessons ofevolutionary medicine to practical use for humans.
Seasonal trends in intestinal nematode infection and medicinal plant use among chimpanzees in the Mahale Mountains, Tanzania
- M. Huffman, S. Gotoh, Linda A. Turner, M. Hamai, Kozo Yoshida
- BiologyPrimates
- 1 April 1997
O. stephanostomum (95%) infections were associated significantly more frequently with medicinal plant use than eitherT.
Factors Affecting Party Size in Chimpanzees of the Mahale Mountains
- A. Matsumoto-Oda, K. Hosaka, M. Huffman, Kenji Kawanaka
- Environmental ScienceInternational journal of primatology
- 1 December 1998
It is suggested that seasonal variation in party size of Mahale chimpanzees maintains a relatively consistent annual cycle and the factors assumed to affect party sizes are fruit availability and the presence of cycling females with maximal anogenital swelling.
Diversity and host specificity of Blastocystis in syntopic primates on Rubondo Island, Tanzania.
- J. PetrĂĄĹĄovĂĄ, M. Uzlikova, M. Kostka, K. PetrĹželkovĂĄ, M. Huffman, D. ModrĂ˝
- BiologyInternational Journal of Parasitology
- 1 September 2011
The sacred monkeys of Bali
- M. Huffman
- Art, BiologyPrimates
- 1 April 2000
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