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K. Anne-Isola Nekaris
Researcher at Oxford Brookes University
Publications - 52
Citations - 2524
K. Anne-Isola Nekaris is an academic researcher from Oxford Brookes University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Slow loris & Loris. The author has an hindex of 23, co-authored 52 publications receiving 2018 citations.
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Impending extinction crisis of the world's primates: why primates matter
Alejandro Estrada,Paul A. Garber,Anthony B. Rylands,Christian Roos,Eduardo Fernandez-Duque,Anthony Di Fiore,K. Anne-Isola Nekaris,Vincent Nijman,Eckhard W. Heymann,Joanna E. Lambert,Francesco Rovero,Claudia Barelli,Joanna M. Setchell,Thomas R. Gillespie,Russell A. Mittermeier,Luis D. Verde Arregoitia,Miguel de Guinea,Sidney F. Gouveia,Ricardo Dobrovolski,Sam Shanee,Noga Shanee,Sarah A. Boyle,Agustín Fuentes,Katherine C. MacKinnon,Katherine R. Amato,Andreas L. S. Meyer,Serge A. Wich,Serge A. Wich,Robert W. Sussman,Ruliang Pan,Inza Koné,Baoguo Li +31 more
TL;DR: Raising global scientific and public awareness of the plight of the world’s primates and the costs of their loss to ecosystem health and human society is imperative.
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Mad, bad and dangerous to know: the biochemistry, ecology and evolution of slow loris venom
TL;DR: Combined with numerous other serpentine features of slow lorises, including extra vertebra in the spine leading to snake-like movement, serpentine aggressive vocalisations, a long dark dorsal stripe and the venom itself, it is proposed that venom may have evolved to mimic cobras (Naja sp.).
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Tickled to Death: Analysing Public Perceptions of 'Cute' Videos of Threatened Species (Slow Lorises - Nycticebus spp.) on Web 2.0 Sites
TL;DR: Slow loris videos that have gone viral have introduced these primates to a large cross-section of society that would not normally come into contact with them, and the need for Web 2.0 sites to provide a mechanism via which illegal animal material can be identified and policed is demonstrated.
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Responses of animals to habitat alteration: an overview focussing on primates
TL;DR: This Theme Section of Endangered Species Research collates a number of case studies on how animals, and particularly primates, respond to the alteration of their habitat.
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Traditions, taboos and trade in slow lorises in Sundanese communities in southern Java, Indonesia
TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on the beliefs, opinions and knowledge about Javan slow lorises Nycticebus javanicus in 12 Sun- danese communities of West Java, Indonesia.