Category: PIN News

Watch Dr. Karen Strier’s talk about her 40 years of studying the muriqui monkeys of Brazil. Dr. Strier is Vilas Research Professor and Irven DeVore Professor of Anthropology at UW-Madison. Watch now.

New in 2024! Primate Conservation Coloring and Activity Book / Livro de Colorir e Ativides sobre a preservação de primatas. História / Story by: Kathy West, Mark Hesters and Gabriela de Faria Oliveira. Ilustrações / Illustrations by: Kathy West. Link to PDF

(Submitted by Nick Lilly, University of Chicago Press) How Primates Eat: A Synthesis of Nutritional Ecology across a Mammal Order; editors Joanna E. Lambert, Margaret A. H. Bryer and Jessica M. Rothman, will be published soon. The book explores everything from nutrients to food acquisition and research methods, a comprehensive synthesis of the study of …

Renowned primatologist Frans de Waal — who pioneered studies of animal cognition while also writing best-selling books that helped popularize the field around the globe — passed away on March 14, 2024 Read more in this beautiful tribute by Emory University.

We are pleased to announce the launch of Primate-Grants, a new Google Group that is part of Primate Info Net hosted by the Wisconsin National Primate Research Center. Primate-Grants is for posting grant announcements from the primate research community. Learn more about PIN’s other forums here: https://primate.wisc.edu/primate-info-net/the-pin-career-groups-jobs-volunteer-opportunities-degree-and-other-programs/ If anyone has any questions about this service, or is …

We are happy to announce that a new, breeding marmoset family moved into our lobby vivarium on Sept. 13, 2022. Learn more about these engaging monkeys here.

We are happy to share, thanks to the work of many contributors, archival pdfs of the Gorilla Gazette, a newsletter about gorilla care and conservation created by gorilla keepers at the Columbus Zoo and published from 1987-2013.

Check out Monkeys: Facts about the largest group of primates, an article published Feb. 14, 2022 in Yours Telecast, science section. The story also appears here and in other news outlets.

We’ve updated our Conservation of Primates page, which is linked to Fact Sheets and Resources on the PIN home page. Check it out and feel free to send further comments and suggestions to pin@primate.wisc.edu.

We have now incorporated our “PIN Classic” content into the new Primate Info Net, under Primate Fact Sheets and Resources. This content includes topics and resources from the original PIN managed by the former Lawrence Jacobsen Library. With all this moving around and rearranging, please don’t hesitate to contact us if you can no longer find what you …