Primate Chewing Jammy Rope (IMAGE)

University of California - Davis

Primate Chewing Jammy Rope

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A red-tailed guenon in Bwindi Impenetrable Forest region in Uganda chews on a rope coated in jam, which is a noninvasive saliva sampling technique developed by UC Davis researchers. But flaviviruses are found in the blood and can be difficult to detect in wildlife.

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(T. Smiley Evans/UC Davis)

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