Abnormal Behavior
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Cognition/Intelligence
- Chimpanzee Ai and Her Friends: The Studies on Chimpanzee Mind (Primate Research Institute, Kyoto University)
- EthoCebus Project
- MIT Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science
- Nova: Ape Genius
- Primate Cognition and Behavior Laboratory, University of Georgia
- Susan Savage-Rumbaugh on apes (TED; 2004)
- The Role of Language in Intelligence
- Theory of Mind in Nonhuman Primates (by C.M. Heyes, published in Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 1998)
- Video library: Working memory of numerals (Dr. Tetsuro Matsuzawa)
- What Are They Thinking? (PBS, Scientific American Frontiers)
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Communication
- A Conversation with Koko
- ChimpFACS (An observational, scientific tool to record and analyse facial expressions in chimpanzees)
- Die long calls der Callitrichidae: Ein Beitrag zu ihrer Phylogenie (by Dr. T. Geissmann; PDF; in German)
- Human Communication as a Primate Heritage (by Anne Zeller; University of Toronto)
- Language in Animals (by Britta Osthaus; University of Exeter)
- Pointing Primates: Sharing Knowledge … Without Language (Chronicle of Higher Education, January 19, 2001)
- Vokalisationen des Silbergibbons (by Markus Kappeler; 1977; in German)
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Comparative
- A Comparison of Some Similar Chimpanzee and Human Behaviors (essay by James Q. Jacobs)
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Ecology
- African Ape Site Floral Lists
- African Ape Study Sites
- Integrative Primate Socio-Ecology
- The Javan Silvery Gibbon (Hylobates lar moloch): Ecology and Behaviour (dissertation by Markus Kappeler; 1981)
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Ethograms
- Chimpanzee Behaviors (Jane Goodall Institute Research Center)
- EthoSearch
- Gorilla Ethograms
- Orangutan Cultures (Anthropological Institute & Museum, Universität Zürich)
- Standardized field methods for orang utan data collection (Anthropological Institute & Museum, Universität Zürich)
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Feeding
- A Note on the Chance Preying by a Western Tarsier on Fruit Bats in Malaysian Borneo
- Diet and Feeding Behaviour of the Moloch Gibbon (by Markus Kappeler)
- Eating What Comes Naturally: An Examination of Some Differences Between the Dietary Components of Humans and Wild Primates (by Katherine Milton; UC-Berkeley)
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Learning (Language, problem solving, tool use)
- A Basic Dictionary of ASL Terms
- A Conversation With Koko (PBS)
- A Guide to the Cultures of Chimpanzees (PDF)
- Are Nonhuman Species Capable of Language Acquisition?
- Can Chimps Talk? (Transcript of the NOVA program)
- Can Chimps Talk?: Slithy Toves of Chimpanzees (by Robert Beard; Bucknell University)
- Can Primates Talk?
- Chimp Talk Debate
- Chimpanzee Communication
- Digital Documentary: Koko TV
- Language of Bonobos (Great Ape Trust of Iowa)
- Machiavellian Monkeys & Shakespearean Apes: The Question of Primate Language (by Alex Hawes; Zoogoer; 1995)
- Primatech (Orangutan sign language project)
- Signing Primates
- The Sounds of Language (about Sue Savage-Rumbaugh)
- Tool Use (lecture by Bill Sellers)
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Parenting
- Parent-Offspring Conflict in Primates (by Dario Maestripieri; Int J Prim. 234, 2002)
- Parenting in Primates (by Kim A. Bard; Handbook of Parenting: Biology and Ecology of Parenting Vol. 2,; 1995)
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Predation
- A Note on the Chance Preying by a Western Tarsier on Fruit Bats in Malaysian Borneo
- Dr. Craig B. Stanford: The Predatory Behavior and Ecology of Wild Chimpanzees
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Reproduction
- Table of reproduction data (Includes mating system, age at first birth, gestation length, litter size, birth rate, neonate weight, age and weight at weaning; Supplementary material to: Lindenfors P. Sexually antagonistic selection on primate size. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 2002; 15 4: 595-607)
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Sexual Behavior
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Sleep
- Primate Sleep (transcript of Primate-Talk discussion and general bibliography)
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Social Behavior
- Binti, Interspecies Relations, and Wildlife Conservation
- Birth Time Decides the Mating Seasonality in Primates (by Shuyi Zhang)
- Chimpanzee Cultures (includes a database of chimpanzee behavior)
- Chimps R Us (PBS: Scientific American Frontiers)
- Dr. Craig B. Stanford: The Predatory Behavior and Ecology of Wild Chimpanzees
- Frans de Waal: Moral behavior in animals (TED; November 1, 2011; Video)
- Humor in Primates
- Imo the Amazing (Cultural transmission in macaques)
- Ishasha Home Page (Chimpanzee behavior)
- Kinds of Fear (Why Files, April 30, 1998)
- Primate Behavior (lecture by Bill Sellers)
- Primate Social Intelligence (by R. P. Worden)
- The Nature of Love (by Harry F. Harlow)
- The Paula Gordon Show: Conversations with Frans de Waal
- Vocal Bouts and Territorial Maintenance in the Moloch Gibbon (by Markus Kappeler; 1984)