UK science for primate behaviour and conservation
Zoo signage is doing three jobs at once: education, marketing and legal cover. Most visitors read it as fact and move on. Here's how to read it as evidence instead — and what to ask when the label makes a claim about conservation.
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.
Come November, Britain's primate collections move indoors and the enrichment rota gets rewritten. Here's what keepers are watching for as the radiators come on — and how visiting students can read the behavioural shifts without jumping to conclusions.
Coffee, cocoa, palm oil and paper connect UK shopping baskets to primate habitats far beyond the supermarket car park. Here is how to read the label, spot greenwashing and make swaps that actually shift the shelf.
A notebook, a timer and a strict rule about not tapping the glass: UK zoos and sanctuaries are formalising the way volunteers record primate behaviour. Here is what that data can do, how it is used, and where good observation stops.