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Henry Friedman, Nancy Ator, Nancy Haigwood, William Newsome + 7 more
'James S. Allan' 'Thaddeus G. Golos' 'Jeff H. Kordower' 'Robert E. Shade' 'Michael E. Goldberg' 'Matthew R. Bailey' 'Paul Bianchi'] The sponsors of this report endorse carefully regulated research with nonhuman primates. This research is essential to learning about the biology, treatment and prevention of diseases and…
Rollyn Labuguen (P), Vishal Gaurav, Salvador Negrete Blanco, Jumpei Matsumoto + 2 more
Understanding animal behavior in its natural habitat is a challenging task. One of the primary step for analyzing animal behavior is feature detection. In this study, we propose the use of deep convolutional neural network (CNN) to locate monkey features from raw RGB images of monkey in its natural environment. We…
Salvador Blanco Negrete, Rollyn Labuguen, Jumpei Matsumoto, Yasuhiro Go + 2 more
This paper proposes a system for pose estimation on monkeys, in diverse and challenging scenarios, and under complex social interactions by using OpenPose. In comparison to most animals used for research, Monkeys present additional difficulties for pose estimation. Multiple degrees of freedom, unique complex postures…
Stefano Sacchetti, Francesco Ceccarelli, Lorenzo Ferrucci, Danilo Benozzo + 3 more
'Danilo Benozzo' 'Emiliano Brunamonti' 'Simon Nougaret' 'Aldo Genovesio'] In neurophysiology, nonhuman primates represent an important model for studying the brain. Typically, monkeys are moved from their home cage to an experimental room daily, where they sit in a primate chair and interact with electronic devices.…
Widava E. Ikhuluru, Malenya E. Imboma, Shikanga E. Liseche, Munayi J. Milemele + 4 more
'Munayi J. Milemele' 'Sechero D. Shilabiga' 'Marina Cords' 'Birthe (Bibi) Linden' 'Sue W. Margulis'] Simple Summary From the perspective of a field research team comprising members of the local community around a rain forest in western Kenya, we describe the relationship between local people and their local primates.…
Georgin Jacob, Harish Katti, Thomas Cherian, Jhilik Das + 2 more
Macaque monkeys are widely used to study the neural basis of cognition. In the traditional approach, the monkey is brought into a lab to perform tasks while it is restrained to obtain stable gaze tracking and neural recordings. This unnatural setting prevents studying brain activity during natural, social and complex…
Rossella Falcone, Emiliano Brunamonti, Stefano Ferraina, Aldo Genovesio + 1 more
'Aldo Genovesio' 'Gonzalo G. de Polavieja'] We designed a new task, called nonmatch-to-goal, to study the ability of macaque monkeys to interact with humans in a rule-guided paradigm. In this task the monkeys were required to choose one of two targets, from a list of three. For each choice, they were required to switch…
Hao Chen, Zhe‐Ming Lu, Jie Liu
SUMMARY This paper focuses on proposing a deep learning-based monkey swing counting algorithm. Nowadays, there are very few papers on monkey detection, and even fewer papers on monkey swing counting. This research focuses on this gap and attempts to count the number of monkeys swinging their heads by deep learning.…
Thomas Cherian, Georgin Jacob, S.P. Arun
Monkeys are widely used as model organisms for human vision and cognition. While their anatomy and physiology strongly correspond to humans, it is unclear to what extent their perception matches with ours. Previous studies have evaluated specific aspects of perception, after extensive training on customized tasks that…
Ankita Shukla, Gullal S. Cheema, Saket Anand, Qamar Qureshi + 1 more
'Yadvendradev V. Jhala'] Despite loss of natural habitat due to development and urbanization, certain species like the Rhesus macaque have adapted well to the urban environment. With abundant food and no predators, macaque populations have increased substantially in urban areas, leading to frequent conflicts with…
Jumpei Matsumoto, Takaaki Kaneko, Kei Kimura, Salvador Blanco Negrete + 11 more
Given their high sociality and close evolutionary distance to humans, monkeys are an essential animal model for unraveling the biological mechanisms underlying human social behavior and elucidating the pathogenesis of diseases exhibiting abnormal social behavior. However, behavioral analysis of naturally behaving…
Vanessa Schmitt, Birte Pankau, Julia Fischer, Roscoe Stanyon
Understanding the evolution of intelligence rests on comparative analyses of brain sizes as well as the assessment of cognitive skills of different species in relation to potential selective pressures such as environmental conditions and social organization. Because of the strong interest in human cognition, much…
Sophia Daoudi-Simison, Eoin O'Sullivan, Genevieve Moat, Phyllis C. Lee + 1 more
'Phyllis C. Lee' 'Hannah M. Buchanan-Smith'] In the wild, coordinated behaviour across group members is essential for maintaining spatial coherence, with potential implications for individual fitness. Such coordination often leads to behavioural synchrony (performing the same behaviour at the same time). Tufted…
Moustafa Zein, Aboul Ella Hassanien, Ammar Adl, Adam Słowik
Optimization techniques, used to get the optimal solution in search spaces, have not solved the time-consuming problem. The objective of this study is to tackle the sequential processing problem in Monkey Algorithm and simulating the natural parallel behavior of monkeys. Therefore, a P system with active membranes is…
Jacqueline A. Robinson, Shifra Birnbaum, Deborah E. Newman, Jeannie Chan + 3 more
Baboons (genus Papio) are broadly studied in the wild and in captivity. They are widely used as a non-human primate model for biomedical studies, and the Southwest National Primate Research Center (SNPRC) at Texas Biomedical Research Institute has maintained a large captive baboon colony for more than 50 years. Unlike…
wenzhong liu, hualan li
Infection with the monkeypox virus (MPXV) causes a condition comparable to that of smallpox, albeit with fewer symptoms and severity. The typical magnitude and duration of monkeypox epidemics will increase as human protection from the smallpox vaccine wanes. In this study, the bioinformatics technique of domain search…
Hamidreza Ramezanpour, Christopher Giverin, Kohitij Kar
We thank Xiaogang Yan for assistance with cage compatibility assessments. We thank Dr. Melissa Madden, Natasha Down, and Hongying Yang for their help with NHP care and related procedures. This work has been motivated by earlier work by Elias Issa, Michael Lee, and other members of the DiCarlo Lab at the McGovern…
Hanuma Teja Maddali, Michael Novitzky, Brian Hrolenok, Daniel Walker + 2 more
In this paper we address the problem of inferring social structure and dominance relationships in a group of rhesus macaques (a species of monkey) using only position data captured using RFID tags. Automatic inference of the social structure in an animal group enables a number of important capabilities, including: 1) A…
Mary C. Doerfler, Katalin Schäffer, Margaret M. Coad
— Spider monkeys (genus Ateles) have a prehensile tail that functions as a flexible, multipurpose fifth limb, enabling them to navigate complex terrains, grasp objects of various sizes, and swing between supports. Inspired by the spider monkey tail, we present a life size hybrid soft-rigid continuum robot designed to…
Zhenhui Li, Xiaping He, Shihao Wu, Rongyao Huang + 11 more
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the most common neurodegenerative disease. To date, its cause is unclear and there are no effective treatments or preventive measures. Despite there are accumulating evidences for the existence of AD pathological hallmarks in the brain of aging rhesus monkeys, it remains a mainstream notion…
Rosemary Blersch, Jessica J. Vandeleest, Amy C. Nathman, Márton Pósfai + 3 more
'Márton Pósfai' "Raissa D'Souza" 'Brenda McCowan' 'Brianne A. Beisner'] Social network position in non-human primates has far-reaching fitness consequences. Critically, social networks are both heterogeneous and dynamic, meaning an individual's current network position is likely to change due to both intrinsic and…