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Faecal logs are one of the least glamorous tools in primate care, and one of the easiest to misread. Here is how UK keepers, vets and lab staff build a useful picture from scores, diet notes and microbiome results — and where casual readers should slow down.
Behind the dioramas and the dinosaur skeletons, UK natural history museums hold thousands of primate skins, skulls and spirit jars. Their labels are a kind of field notebook written by people who are long gone — and they still have plenty to say about conservation in 2026.
Headlines about primates lean on a handful of loaded words — alpha, aggressive, human-like, monkey see monkey do — and most of them are doing more work than the science can support. Here's a short field glossary for reading primate coverage without getting hoodwinked.