The small, huge-eyed primates may look adorable being tickled, getting brushed or clutching tiny umbrellas, but they're actually suffering, according to the film, which was posted online last week by U.K.-based International Animal Rescue.
Dr James Higham, from New York University, US, says digital photography and sophisticated computer applications have allowed scientists to finally quantify the huge variety of primate features.
We learn a huge amount from primates".
Conlee, of the Humane Society, said it was disheartening how little money was invested by governments into developing alternatives compared to the huge amounts invested in primate research.
Lines of ancestry are extremely difficult to work out from a series of fossils and there are still huge gaps in our understanding of the primate evolutionary story.
Huge impact of recent SDs in architecturing the primate genome over the short period of evolutionary time, apparently support the notion that small scale duplications and rearrangements might have remained a predominant mechanism in shaping the vertebrate genome throughout their evolutionary history [ 37, 38].
"Traditionally, it has been pretty safe to assume that when females are promiscuous, males use monstrously sized testicles to deliver huge numbers of sperm to swamp the competition, even in primates.
Of course, there is a huge gap between what we can do with machines and what primates and humans can do, but I think it's on the same path.
Their home range is accordingly huge, 115 square miles or so, the largest such range known for any primate.
But there is a huge financial incentive to make transgenic goats that does not exist with primates.
