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Study discovers that primates take care of animals outside their own family

Children and monkeys share common understanding of geometry

With their ability to use tools, remember faces and even learn how to communicate with humans through sign language, nonhuman primates are considered to be among the smartest creat...

Monkeys Understand Shapes in Almost the Same Way as Humans

You (probably) won’t find a monkey in a geometry class, but it looks like our fellow primates can swing the basics. … This shared foundation suggests that our geometric intuition e...

Monkeys Understand Shapes in Almost the Same Way as Humans

Our geometric intuition, long considered something that sets us apart, seems to be shared with other primates.

A Celebration of Our Close Kinship with Other Primates

Lennette Newell's new book is a unique fact-filled photographic gem packed with beautiful images accompanied by detailed information about behavior, geography, habitat, and more.

Humans love having pets. Seems like some other primates do, too

Ishe and Dembe, two young eastern chimpanzees, were leaping from branch to branch in the dense jungle canopy of a reserve in Uganda when the chimps surprised watching researchers....

How body size and habitat shape the vocal repertoires of primates

Biologists, zoologists and psychologists have been trying to trace the origins of human language for centuries. One well-known theory, known as the social brain hypothesis, suggest...

Last common ancestor of humans and chimpanzees could have been a vertical climber, no matter its feet

New research suggests that no matter what we eventually determine the last common ancestor of humans and chimpanzees to be, we'll learn it was a primate that climbed trees.

Last Common Ancestor of Humans and Chimpanzees May Have Been a Skilled Tree Climber

Learn how video footage of monkeys in West Africa has unlocked new answers in the debate over the last common ancestor of chimpanzees and humans. 

Orange-Lipped Monkey Photo Helps Scientists Identify New Species

The medium-sized monkey with an orange-colored patch around its nose and mouth, known locally as Likweli, joins a very short list of newly identified African monkey species.

Monkeys Just Challenged a Major Assumption About How Human Ancestors Climbed

A study shows that monkeys use their feet to climb trees as skillfully as chimpanzees. The way a primate climbs a tree can offer clues about how our own ancestors once moved. New r...

Monkeys understand shapes in almost the same way as humans

You (probably) won’t find a monkey in a geometry class, but it looks like our fellow primates can swing the basics.Just like people, monkeys seem to grasp the abstract qualities of...

Protecting primates could protect thousands of other species, study finds

As biodiversity on Earth faces rapid decline, scientists are advocating for a new conservation approach: Save habitat for primates and protect countless other species along with th...

Why some primates have even tougher births than humans

Tamarins and squirrel monkeys have babies with unspeakably large heads compared to their mother’s birth canal.

Study finds monkeys and apes form friendships with other species

A global study led by the University of Oxford revealed that monkeys and apes often play, groom, carry, and even adopt animals from other species.

Monkeys and Kids Share Evolutionary Intuitions for Geometry

A new study reveals that non-human primates share a fundamental intuition for geometry with humans.

Humans and great apes show similar rhythmic pattern in laughter

Laughter compared in humans and four great ape species Study involved chimps, bonobos, gorillas and orangutans Human laughter is faster and sensitive to social context Research may...

In This Costa Rican Forest, Monkeys Come Face-to-Face With A.I.

CapuchinAI, a portable testing station equipped with a touch screen and facial recognition software, could help scientists study primate intelligence in the wild.

Fossils from Wyoming's Smiley Draw deepen understanding of early primate evolution

A new study from the University of Kansas complicates the picture of primates living in North America some 55 million years ago during the Eocene, a warm period that allowed mammal...

Monkeys keep pets and maintain friendships with other animals

This behaviour may shed light on one of the defining features of our own species: our extraordinary relationships with other animals

New monkey: so rare only 8 of 52 nearby villages knew it existed

An international team including Yale researchers has described a new species of Colobus monkey living high in the forest canopy of the Democratic Republic of Congo — only the fifth...

New study into humans' closest ape relatives suggests physical touch can promote social harmony

Physical touch may be an important evolutionary tool to help manage social tension and keep the peace. That is according to a new study led by Durham University in the UK, analyzin...

Fossil study finds vision—not the 'thinking' frontal lobe—drove varied brain development in primates

A new study led by a Duke University scientist overturns a long-held idea about how primates, including humans, came to have such large and sophisticated brains. The research finds...

Scientists discover Monkey with orange lips and roaring call as newfound species (video)

A new species of monkey with distinctive orange lips and a deep roaring call has been identified in the Democrat