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   Featured Article by an ASP Member

Each month, ASP will feature an article published in the American Journal of Primatology that was authored by a member of the Society. Wiley-Liss has agreed to make the entire article freely available for a period of three months.

Playing it safe? Solitary vervet monkeys (Chlorocebus pygerythrus) choose high?quality foods more than those in competition.
Authors: L. Tamara Kumpan, Jessica M. Rothman, Colin A. Chapman, Julie A. Teichroeb.
A competitive drive? Same-sex attentional preferences in capuchins.
Authors: Elizabeth V. Lonsdorf, Lindsey M. Engelbert, Lauren H. Howard

   Trending Articles

Click on the link to see the abstract from the top AJP article that currently has the highest Altmetric score. (Altmetric is a service that tracks and measures the broader impact of scholarly articles and datasets across traditional and social media, online reference managers, post-publication peer-review sites, and public policy documents.)

Bryndan O.C.M. van Pinxteren, Giulia Sirianni, Paolo Gratton, Marie-Lyne Després-Einspenner, Martijn Egas, Hjalmar Kühl, Juan Lapuente, Amelia C. Meier, Karline R.L. Janmaat. Sooty mangabeys scavenge on nuts cracked by chimpanzees and red river hogs—An investigation of interspecific interactions. Am J Primatol. 2018;e22895. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajp.22895
Link: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ajp.22895

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News and Notes

July 2019

AJP remains the top ranked journal in Primatology with the 2018 Impact factor of 2.009

June 2019

Special Issue of the American Journal of Primatology: Working Together: Collaborations among Captive, Field, and Laboratory Primatologists.

The papers in this special issue, edited by Marilyn Norconk, are free to all for a three month period, courtesy of Wiley!

May 2019

The Spring 2019 ASP Bulletin is now available in the Members section of the website!

January 2019

Open Science Badges

The American Journal of Primatology (AJP) is happy to announce that it now offers all submitting authors the following two Open Science badgesfrom the Center for Open Science (COS) — Open Materials and Open Data. Authors will have an opportunity at the time of manuscript submission to determine whether they wish to participate. Applying and qualifying for Open Science badges is not a requirement for publishing with the journal, but these badges are an incentive for authors to participate in the open science movement and thus to increase the visibility and transparency of their research. Further information about the program is available in the Author Guidelines. See also Open Science Badges.

November 2018

See Dr. Karen Bales, past president of ASP and current Editor in Chief of AJP, describe her research and her work as EIC in this new video that is part of Wiley’s Keeping Wonder Alive series.

October 2018

Special issue of American Journal of Primatology on Oxytocin and Vasopressin in Primates is now available!

 NIH to develop uniform standards, seek indeoendent input for relocation of at-risk chimpanzees