Publications by authors named "K Anna I Nekaris"

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  • This special issue compiles a wide range of conservation education initiatives aimed at protecting primates, highlighting the urgent need for such programs due to ongoing threats like habitat loss and illegal hunting.
  • It features 20 diverse case studies from various regions including Central and South America, Africa, and Asia, showcasing different educational approaches and their challenges in promoting long-term behavior change and conservation impact.
  • The authors advocate for more innovative, community-driven educational strategies while calling on primatologists to prioritize conservation education in their research and outreach to help safeguard primate species.
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With increasing replacement of native forests with agriculture, it is important to understand the factors allowing non-human primates to persist, including interactions with potential predators. For small-bodied nocturnal primates, smaller carnivores and domestic dogs that often characterise agroforestry landscapes may be a particular threat, especially for primates like slow lorises, which rely on canopy connectivity and are particularly vulnerable on the ground. We present data collected over 12 years in Indonesia.

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  • Human interactions with wild animals in zoos and aquariums can be beneficial for education and conservation, but not all interactions are positive for the animals involved.
  • A study assessed dysfunctional animal-visitor interactions across 225 facilities in nine Southeast Asian countries, finding harmful practices like animal selfies and rides.
  • Accreditation by zoological associations did not significantly reduce these harmful interactions, indicating a need for better strategies, legislation, and guidance to improve standards in animal welfare.
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Venom production has evolved independently many times in the animal kingdom, although it is rare among mammals. Venomous shrews produce venom in their submandibular salivary glands and use it for food acquisition. Only a few toxins have been identified in shrew venoms thus far, and their modes of action require investigation.

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Facial musculature in mammals underlies mastication and nonverbal communicative facial displays. Our understanding of primate facial expression comes primarily from haplorrhines (monkeys and apes), while our understanding of strepsirrhine (lemurs and lorises) facial expression remains incomplete. We examined the facial muscles of six specimens from three Nycticebus species (Nycticebus coucang, Nycticebus javanicus, and Nycticebus menagensis) using traditional dissection methodology and novel three-dimensional facial scanning to produce a detailed facial muscle map, and compared these results to another nocturnal strepsirrhine genus, the greater bushbaby (Otolemur spp.

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