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Behavioral Assessment of Manual Dexterity in Non-Human Primates
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2011
As manual dexterity is a prerogative mainly of primates, behavioral tasks have been developed in macaque monkeys. Four reach and grasp prehension tasks, measuring hand manipulation ability and force, allow to establish functional recovery after a lesion of the central nervous system and to test the effect of a treatment.
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Large Volume, Behaviorally-relevant Illumination for Optogenetics in Non-human Primates
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2017
A protocol to build a tissue penetrating illuminator for delivering light over large volumes with minimal diameter is presented.
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Parental Care
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2026
Many animals exhibit parental care behavior, including feeding, grooming, and protecting young offspring. Parental care is universal in mammals and birds, which often have young that are born relatively helpless. Several species of insects and fish, as well as some amphibians, also care for their young. Birds Parental care can occur even before hatching in birds, when parents sit on their eggs to incubate them. After hatching, the parents provide food for their offspring, and may continue to...
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DiOLISTIC Labeling of Neurons from Rodent and Non-human Primate Brain Slices
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2010
We demonstrate the use of the gene gun to introduce fluorescent dyes, such as DiI, into neurons in brain slices from rodents and non-human primates of different ages. In this particular case, we use adult mice (3-6 months old) and adult cynomologus monkeys (9-15 years old). This technique, originally described by the laboratory of Dr. Lichtman (Gan et al., 2000), is well suited for the study of dendritic branching and dendritic spine morphology and can be combined with traditional...
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The Gateway to the Brain: Dissecting the Primate Eye
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2009
The non-human primate is an important translational species for our understanding of development and aging. The anatomical organization of the primate retina may provide important insights into normal and pathological conditions in humans.
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Differences reflect species-specific ecology, social structure, and parental investment. These conditions influence how much care infants receive and whether mothers, fathers, or unrelated group members participate. Comparing those patterns helps researchers connect caregiving arrangements with the demands of different environments and social systems, rather than treating one form of care as universal across primates.
Infants learn by combining observation with direct interaction. Watching others can expose them to communication, feeding strategies, and appropriate social responses, while contact and participation provide opportunities to engage with those behaviors. This combination makes caregiving important not only for immediate support, but also for the gradual development of skills needed within the group.
Parental investment can be distributed among mothers, fathers, and unrelated helpers, making caregiving a useful way to examine cooperation within primate groups. The intensity and form of support show how social relationships contribute to infant development. These patterns also provide evidence for comparing how caregiving roles are organized across species with different social structures.
Caregiving links infant development with communication, observation, cooperation, and social learning. By comparing how caregivers support young and how infants respond, researchers can examine the relationship between social behavior and cognitive development. Cross-species comparisons also contribute to interpretations of social evolution, including questions about how cooperative care and learned skills may have developed.
A useful comparison considers who provides care, which forms of support occur, and how caregiving varies with ecological conditions and social structure. Researchers can examine maternal, paternal, and helper contributions alongside infant learning and interaction. This approach separates shared features from species-specific patterns and supports broader conclusions about parental investment and social organization.
Knowledge of caregiving patterns can inform conservation, captive management, and welfare practices by clarifying the social and developmental needs of young primates. Understanding the roles of parents and other group members helps interpret whether care arrangements support infant development. The same evidence can guide attention to contact, protection, social interaction, and opportunities for learning.