**Meet the editors**

Dr. Mark Burke graduated from the State University of New York, Plattsburgh, with an undergraduate degree in Psychology. He then went on to complete his doctoral degree in Biology from the McGill University with a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Montreal. He is currently working as an associate professor at the Howard University and is a member of the DC Center

for AIDS Research (CFAR). His research focuses on neurodevelopment and the effects of developmental intrusions in nonhuman primates, such as hemispherectomies, fetal alcohol exposure, and pediatric HIV infection. His current work aims at identifying the extent and underlying the mechanisms of HIV-induced neurological damage in infants. He is the PI of an NIH R03 grant and has been an active mentor of undergraduate, graduate, and medical students.

Maurice Ptito is a professor of Visual Neuroscience at the School of Optometry at the Université de Montréal. He is also an adjunct professor of Neurology and Neurosurgery at the Montreal Neurological Institute (McGill University) and a guest professor at the Department of Neuroscience and Pharmacology at the University of Copenhagen. He currently holds the Harland Sanders

Research Chair in Vision Science. He has received several awards and prizes, including the Sir John William Dawson Medal of the Royal Society of Canada and the Henry and Karla Hansen Prize (Denmark). He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters. In 2013, he was made a Knight of the National Order of Quebec. The major goal of his research is the understanding of the mechanisms involved in visual plasticity in normal developing individuals, as well as in those who were born without vision or lost their vision later in life.

Contents

**Preface VII**

Colin Groves

Milada Řeháková

**the Human Brain 1**

Chapter 2 **An Overview of the Primates 11**

Mark W. Burke and Maurice Ptito

**Lake Alaotra, Madagascar 45** Lena M. Reibelt and Patrick O. Waeber

Daya S. Gupta and Silmar Teixeira

**Mirror Self-Recognition? 85**

Chapter 7 **The Origins of Gibbon Ape Leukaemia Virus 117**

Parron Carole

Chapter 1 **Introductory Chapter: Primates - What the Monkey Brain Tells**

Chapter 3 **Preliminary Observations of Infant Ontogeny in the Philippine Tarsier (Tarsius syrichta) and the First Description of Play**

**Behaviour and Its Ontogeny in Tarsiers 29**

Chapter 4 **Approaching Human Dimensions in Lemur Conservation at**

Chapter 5 **The Time-Budget Perspective of the Role of Time Dimension in**

Chapter 6 **Pictorial Competence in Primates: A Cognitive Correlate of**

Gregory Stewart Simmons and Gervais Habarugira

Chapter 8 **Trypanosoma cruzi Infection in Non-Human Primates 131**

Vitelli-Avelar, John L. VandeBerg and Jane F. VandeBerg

**Modular Network Dynamics during Functions of the Brain 67**

Renato Sathler-Avelar, Armanda Moreira Mattoso-Barbosa, Olindo Assis Martins-Filho, Andrea Teixeira-Carvalho, Danielle Marchetti
