What is "primatologist"

Usage examples of "primatologist".

Pia, who was there because her lover, the primatologist Spurrier, trusted Gitner even less than he trusted Ike.

Feeling oddly like a primatologist in a hide, she watched little knots of the huge gorilla-like creatures knuckle-walking to and fro.

Napier, a primatologist and author of the 1973 book Bigfoot: The Yeti and Sasquatch in Myth and Reality, has reversed the skeptical position he had previously expressed, and now describes himself as a Yeti devotee.

The primatologist was a slender woman of about sixty, but she looked older than that, her face deeply lined.

Richard Wrangham, a primatologist at Harvard, cites the example of the red colobus monkey.

Many primatologists felt that early efforts to teach chimpanzees ASL had been compromised by the strong bond that always developed between researcher and subject.

According to many primatologists, it shares something in common with these earlier experiments: it is fatally flawed.

Many primatologists will recognize experiments, stories, and anecdotes in this book that were adapted from nonfiction accounts of raising chimpanzees in human families, observations of chimpanzees in the wild, and cognitive and linguistic studies of chimpanzees.

An even more striking experiment was performed accidentally by Japanese primatologists attempting to relieve an overpopulation and hunger problem in a community of macaques on an island in south Japan.

There were ample data to explain the precise mechanisms of dominance hierarchy in a lion pride, there was voluminous research relating to the pecking order in most avian species, more and more information was coming in from primatologists on the role of dominance and aggression in the social groups of our nearest cousins, but almost nothing was known about the mechanism of human violence as it relates to dominance and social order.

Intrepid primatologists have investigated the amount of sperm needed for fertilization.