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• Study: Fruit-mad South American monkeys eat 50 varieties a day
  Researchers say that some monkeys in South and Central America eat as many as 50 different species of fruit a day.A team from the University of East Anglia said that primate size and diet are closely connected.They found that mid-sized species including Saki monkeys were the biggest fruit consumers.Larger primates including Woolly Spider monkeys were more li […]
• Team Finds First Evidence Of Primates Regularly Sleeping In Caves
  Scientists have discovered that some ring-tailed lemurs in Madagascar regularly retire to limestone chambers for their nightly snoozes, the first evidence of the consistent, daily use of the same caves and crevices for sleeping among the world’s wild primates.The ring-tailed lemurs may be opting to sleep in caves for several reasons, said University of Color […]
• India To Start Administering Birth Control To Frisky Monkeys
  India is planning to put its rising population of primates on the pill to tackle the growing "monkey menace" in its towns and cities, government wildlife officials have confirmed.Vasectomies and sterilisation programmes are also being developed as part of a broader plan to curb the chaos being caused by troupes of marauding monkeys as urban India e […]