Research Links
American Museum of Natural History
Provides links to the research and collections of the Museum's seven scientific departments: anthropology, botany, entomology, invertebrate zoology, mineral sciences, paleobiology, and vertebrate zoology.
American Society of Primatologists
An educational and scientific society that aims to understand better our nonhuman cousins and to facilitate information exchange about them.
DLC's Division of Fossil Primates
Harvard's Museum of Comparative Biology
For nearly 140 years the Library at the Museum of Comparative Biology has served the museum and the Harvard community by providing a vast collection of Natural History resources.
The International Primatological Society
Association of scientists who do research on non-human primates. The chief function of the society is holding international congresses of papers and symposia. Each congress alternates between a primate habitat country and a non-habitat country every two years.
The Primate Society of Great Britain
Founded in 1967 to promote research into all aspects of primate biology, conservation, and management. The Society is very strong scientifically and holds regular scientific meetings. In addition, the society has launched a conservation appeal to help the urgent plight of primates in nature.
Lemurs of Madagascar
J.H. van der Soot has created an exhaustive website for anyone interested in lemurs. It includes statistics, taxonomies, as well as complete descriptions of each lemur subspecies, from vocalizations to behavior to distinguishing physical features. It includes photographs of 19th century plates depicting lemurs and a summary of efforts undertaken to save the prosimians. A similarly excellent CD-ROM is available from the website of ETI.