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Pathogens in non-human primates could become a problem

Since 12 October 2015 the German Primate Center has its very own cafeteria. Café "CaPri" is operated by the Göttinger Studentenwerk and is open for employees and guests.

The new issue of our magazine „DPZ aktuell“ is out since September. It includes reports about year of the gibbon, a new initiative of researchers who want to inform about animal experimental research and the latest research highlights. Subscriptions of the magazine are for free.

In cooperation with the DPZ ethologist Julia Fischer, the developmental psychologist Alexandra Freund will research the age-related development of social relations in primates.

The official inauguration event of the Leibniz ScienceCampus takes place on November 4th, 2015. The keynote lecture will be given by Michael Platt (University of Pennsylvania)

A group of researchers led by Julia Fischer and Stefan Treue of the German Primate Center and Göttingen University have received project funds from Lower Saxony’s Ministry of Science and Culture and the Volkswagen Foundation of about one million Euro. The funding will support research on the cognitive abilities of non-human and human primates. The money is also part of a plan to prepare the science community of Göttingen for the upcoming competition „Bund-Länder-Initiative“, which succeeds the Excellence Initiative.

They brachiate their way through the rain forest of Southeast Asia and every morning they sing their melodic duets: the Gibbons. The only question is as to how long they will be able to do so. The small apes with long arms suffer from illegal hunting and the destruction of their habitat. Researchers fear that most of the 19 species could become extinct within the next 20 years. The Section on Small Apes of the International Union for Conservation of Nature has therefore declared 2015 the “Year of the Gibbon“. The campaign is to bring about public awareness of the endangered apes and to promote the financing for new conservation projects.

Primates that play, grow slower but benefit later in life

Three heads of research laboratories and units at the DPZ explain in the magazine „BioFokus Spezial“ why animal experiments are necessary for biomedical research and what their outcome for the benefit of humanity is.