Opportunities in Undergraduate Research: the SOAR Program
Hi, my name is Amber Cooper and over this past summer, I went on a life-changing journey in Texas. Now, even mentioning Texas will bring to mind images of cowboys and unbearable heat, and I must say those images are quite realistic for the state that...
Opportunities in Undergraduate Research: Lemurs, Dermestids, and Me
Freshman Alice Stubbs recently joined the Terhune Lab as an undergraduate researcher. In this blog post she describes what it's like to find a research lab to work in and what her lab duties are. Welcome to the lab Alice!You may be wondering what’s it like...
Peculiar Primates: Snub-nosed Monkeys
Because we saw such an extremely large nose in the last Peculiar Primates feature, we thought you might enjoy the other end of the proboscis spectrum. This week: the snub-nosed monkey! There are currently ten known species of this type of monkey, all in...
Peculiar Primates: Proboscis Monkeys
New year, new monkey! We hope you’re all excited to learn about a Southeast Asian primate with an unusually large schnoz – the proboscis monkey (species name Nasalis larvatus)! Male proboscis monkeys have a bulbous nose (like Grumpy or Squidward) that is...
Warm Wishes & New Insight into Dermestid Colony Use
Undergrad researcher Lydia Haake has recently completed her undergraduate thesis concerning the best practices of using dermestid beetle colonies for cleaning specimens using house mice and the results are in! The species of dermestid beetle species used...
Peculiar Primates: Macaques
Macaques, like humans, are wide-ranging primates that prosper in many different environments, and as a result, both macaques and humans have been described as “weed species” (1). Apart from choking out your garden and littering your sidewalk, both primate...
Messed Up Mammals and the Joys of Research Travel
One of the best parts about being a biological anthropologist is having the opportunity to travel to natural history museums all over the world and to see the collections that rarely, if ever, go on display to the public. Sometimes these hidden collections are pretty...
Peculiar Primates: Pygmy Marmosets
A new school year is starting in the US, so we’re hoping this month’s peculiar primate will help you get ready and excited to learn. As requested, this month’s post is about the pygmy marmoset (Cebuella pygmaea). This little one is the smallest monkey in...
Peculiar Primates: Bald-headed Uakaris
This month’s primate certainly turns heads in the rainforests of South America. Let’s just say this species isn’t winning any beauty contests, not by our human standards, anyway. When looking at this primate, we find ourselves remembering a really bad...
Peculiar Primates: Emperor Tamarins
Hello everyone, and welcome to the first post of Peculiar Primates! Our research at the University of Arkansas incorporates a lot of different primates, so we want to clue you in to some of the cool, weird, and awesome species that we study. Of course,...