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Georgin Jacob, Harish Katti, Thomas Cherian, Jhilik Das + 4 more
Macaque monkeys are widely used to study vision. In the traditional approach, monkeys are brought into a lab to perform visual tasks while they are restrained to obtain stable eye tracking and neural recordings. Here, we describe a novel environment to study visual cognition in a more natural setting as well as other…
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…
Elizabeth Cabrera-Ruiz, Marlen Alva, Mario Treviño, Miguel Mata-Herrera + 5 more
Humans learn and incorporate cross-modal associations between auditory and visual objects (e.g., between a spoken word and a picture) into language. However, whether nonhuman primates can learn cross-modal associations between words and pictures remains uncertain. We trained two rhesus macaques in a delayed cross-modal…
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.…
James E. Loudon, Michaela E. Howells, Christopher A. Wolfe, I. Nyoman Buana + 7 more
'I. Nyoman Buana' 'Wayan Buda' 'I. Nengah Wandia' 'I. Gusti Agung Arta Putra' 'Meghan Patterson' 'Agustín Fuentes' 'Sue W. Margulis' 'Birthe (Bibi) Linden'] Simple Summary This study examines patterns of injury and mortality in long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis) at the Ubud Monkey Forest in Bali, Indonesia.…
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…
Jumpei Matsumoto, Takaaki Kaneko, Kei Kimura, Salvador Blanco Negrete + 11 more
'Salvador Blanco Negrete' 'Jia Guo' 'Naoko Suda-Hashimoto' 'Akihisa Kaneko' 'Mayumi Morimoto' 'Hiroshi Nishimaru' 'Tsuyoshi Setogawa' 'Yasuhiro Go' 'Tomohiro Shibata' 'Hisao Nishijo' 'Masahiko Takada' 'Ken-ichi Inoue'] Given their high sociality and close evolutionary distance to humans, monkeys are an essential animal…
Bradley Scott, Clarisse de Vries, Aiden Durrant, Nir Oren + 2 more
'Edward Chadwick' 'Dimitra Blana'] In this study, we investigated whether transfer learning from macaque monkeys could improve human pose estimation. Current state-of-the-art pose estimation techniques, often employing deep neural networks, can match human annotation in non-clinical datasets. However, they underperform…
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…
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…
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…
Yidong Yang, Antoine Ameloot, Guillaume Lio, Angela Sirigu + 1 more
We used digit-tracking, a touch-based method for assessing visual attention, to investigate spontaneous exploration in macaque monkeys. By engaging with degraded images on a touch-sensitive display, monkeys could uncover high-resolution portions through finger movements, allowing for natural and unrestricted…
Jordan Doyle, Takfarinas Saber, Paolo Arcaini, Anthony Ventresque
Testing mobile applications often relies on tools, such as Exerciser Monkey for Android systems, that simulate user input. Exerciser Monkey, for example, generates random events (e.g., touches, gestures, navigational keys) that give developers a sense of what their application will do when deployed on real mobile…
Tiffany Claire Bosshard, Marie Hirel, Hélène Meunier, Julia Fischer
While it is well established that apes invent or individually learn new gestures, cases of development and use of novel gestures in monkeys are more rarely described. We report a case of a novel, idiosyncratic gesture in a Barbary macaque (Macaca sylvanus) at ‘La Forêt des Singes’, Rocamadour, France. One adult male…
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…
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…
Valentine Morel-Latour, Océane Monnier, Elya Ray, Alyssia Fort + 7 more
Non-human primates are crucial animal models in biomedical research including neurosciences. Legal frameworks ensure that participation of monkeys in biomedical research follows an ethical assessment, driven by specific guidelines for ensuring animal well-being. Those guidelines promote continued refinement of…
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…
Laxman Khanal, Xueyou Li, Asmit Subba, Sapana Ulak + 3 more
Simple Summary The taxonomy of the sinica group of macaques has been unresolved due to inconsistencies between their physical traits and genetic relationships. To clarify this taxonomic issue, we analyzed DNA from previously unsampled populations of the macaques in the Himalayas. Our results revealed that the sinica…
Mingxin Huang, Yuliang Liu, Dingkang Liang, Lianwen Jin + 1 more
MLLMs via Complementary Image Pyramid Authors: ['Mingxin Huang' 'Yuliang Liu' 'Dingkang Liang' 'Lianwen Jin' 'Xiang Bai'] Recently, scaling images to high resolution has received much attention in multimodal large language models (MLLMs). Most existing practices adopt a slidingwindow-style cropping strategy to adapt to…