Cecilia Veracini- PhD
- Researcher at University of Lisbon
Cecilia Veracini
- PhD
- Researcher at University of Lisbon
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The green monkey Chlorocebus sabaeus, L. 1766, native to West Africa, was introduced to the Cabo Verde Archipelago in the 16th century. Historical sources suggest that, due to the importance of Cabo Verde as a commercial entrepôt in the Atlantic slave trade, establishing the precise place of origin of this introduced species is challenging. Non-inv...
Use and Trade of non-human animals in Portuguese overseas expansion.
Evidence from Italian travellers (15th and 16th centuries).
This article addresses broad and plural concepts of landscape, considering its diversity of meanings and uses, which go far beyond its environmental and geographical connotations. It discusses the relationship between humanity and the rest of the natural world as a global process that combines physical and cultural aspects, and it seeks to highligh...
The present work describes the earliest known image of a gorilla (Gorilla sp.) to appear outside Africa. This is found in an Asian miniature painted on silk from the second half of the fifteenth century, called Four captive demons. The inspirational source of this painting is obscure and the artist unknown, but it may have been created in the Timur...
Cultural and physical landscapes can be regarded as a result of the interaction among humans, nonhumans and a vast array of ecological factors. Nonhuman primates are our closest relatives and play a role in many cultural manifestations of mankind. Therefore interface between humans and other primates can create complex social and ecological spaces,...
Abstracts of the 7th Iberian Congress of Primatology
8th Congress of the Portuguese Primatology Association
12th Congress of the Spanish Primatology Association
Sociedade de Geografia de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal, October 9-11, 2019
The idea of writing a book which brings together various contributions about history of primatology was born after the Symposium “History of Primatology Yesterday and Today: Tradition and Science” that we and other colleagues organized at the XXIVth Congress of the International Primatological Society in Cancun, from 12th to 18th August, 2012. The...
The deep and intrinsic interconnection between humans and the natural
world is becoming part of the scientific and political agendas, as is the
relevant role humankind has – and has had – on the changing of this
complex array of equilibriums and relationships.
Since the dawn of humanity, survival has meant dealing with
unpredictable natural situati...
The history of interactions between humans and non-human primates is simultaneously complex and fascinating. Since ancient times, human beings have interacted with non-human primates, sometimes shaping the latter populations’ abundance and geographical distribution. In the Age of Discovery (fifteenth and sixteenth centuries) Europeans came in conta...
Climate change is a reality. The changes that humans have made to the planet in the last 100 years have had a huge impact on many ecological systems. One of the major impact can be observed in the rising of sea level. The level rise of the seas can have dramatic effects on coastal archaeological and cultural heritage. Fluctuations and shifts in tem...
The current work presents the results of a review of most of the European diaries and travel chronicles containing reports of New World non-human primates dating from the discovery of America in 1492 until the end of the sixteenth century. We report the integral texts translated into English of these literary sources, giving a critical interpretati...
In 1513 the famous Turkish navigator, geographer and cartographer, the admiral Pîrî Reis, drew a large planisphere showing the entire known world of the time. Today only a fragment of this work remains, conserved at the Topkapi Sarayi Museum in Istanbul (Turkey) and referred to as the Carte de l'Atlantique. This map represents one of the most contr...
The Natural Science Museum of Barcelona (MCNB) houses a total of 309 specimens of non–human primates. The collection comprises 102 stuffed animals, 33 skins, 73 skeletons, 24 postcranial skeletons, eight mounted skeletons, 54 skulls, three whole animals in alcohol, and 31 other samples (bones and other). Over the last two years the collection has b...
Around the end of the second decade of the sixteenth century, in the Villa Medici of Poggio a Caiano in the vicinity of Florence, the Florentine artist Andrea del Sarto painted a great fresco, commissioned by Pope Leo X in honour of his late father, Lorenzo de' Medici. This fresco contains one of the earliest representations in Europe of a living S...
L'MCNB conserva un total de 309 exemplars de primats no humans. La col·lecció consta de 102 exemplars dissecats, 33 pells, 73 esquelets, 24 esquelets postcranials, vuit esquelets muntats, 54 cranis, tres animals sencers en alcohol i 31 mostres d'altres tipus (ossos o altres). Els darrers anys s'ha portat a terme una revisió completa i una reorganit...
The primatological collection housed in the Natural History Museum, Zoological Section «La Specola» of Florence University, is considered one of the most important in Italy in terms of both the quantity and the historical value of the specimens. In recent years a complete review, reorganization and revaluation of the historical value of the collect...
This work describes the ranging behavior and the habitat preferences of a wild group of silvery marmosets studied in the eastern Brazilian Amazonia for 11 months. The study group used secondary growth forests (capoeiras) for 78% of the observation time, flooded forest and terra firme forest for 9% of the time and edge areas for the rest of the time...
The first descriptions of the anthropomorphic monkeys reached Europe channelled through a combination of legend, anecdote and travel journal. The first actual chimpanzee in flesh and blood only arrived around the seventeenth century, and the similarity between these great apes and human beings immediately unleashed conflicting reactions of attracti...
The axiomatic theory presented in Galleni and Forti [1999], being part of the foundational programme of Ennio De Giorgi, is based on the fundamental notions of quality, relation, operation and collection, and provides a very general axiomatization of the biological notions of living object, generation, species and speciation. Within this theoretica...
