Web Links

General links about primates

Primate Info Net
http://www.primate.wisc.edu/pin/
An extensive and comprehensive website produced and maintained by the Wisconsin Primate Research Center, National Primate Research Centers Program, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

The Jane Goodall Institute
http://www.janegoodall.org/
Website for the Jane Goodall Institute, with comprehensive information about chimpanzees, including research and conservation.

Orangutan Foundation International
http://www.orangutan.org/home/home.php
Website for the Orangutan Foundation International, with comprehensive information about orangutans, including research and conservation.

Gibbon Conservation Center
http://www.gibboncenter.org/
The website of the Gibbon Conservation Center (GCC) in Santa Clarita, California. GCC is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit facility; established by Alan Richard Mootnick in 1977 for the study, propagation, conservation and betterment of the highly endangered small ape, the gibbon; and for the education of the public about the plight of this fascinating primate.

Specific sites about culture in nonhuman primates

Disturbing Behaviors of the Orangutan
http://hominid.uchicago.edu/cmalcom/maleorangs.pdf
The on-line version of this reading from Scientific American, with photographs and maps.

Chimpanzee Cultures
http://138.251.146.69/cultures3/
This website gives access to an online database that describes the cultural variations in chimpanzee behaviour, and shows behaviour distributions across the long-term study sites in Africa.

First Primate Archaeological Dig Uncovers New Tool Development Links
http://www.nsf.gov/od/lpa/news/02/pr0242.htm
A study of chimpanzees' use of hammers to open nuts in western Africa may provide fresh clues to how tools developed among human ancestors.

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