Monkeys seem to prefer vibing to music over screentime
The monkeys could trigger audio or visual stimuli on demand
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Female monkeys use male “hired guns” to protect them from predators
You scratch my back, I'll scratch yours.
To the bitter end: primates can also fall into the sunken cost fallacy
Giving up is how you win, sometimes.
As cities quarantine, animals take to the streets
Deers in Japan, fishes in Venice and monkeys in Thailand
Monkeys are willing to try new solutions to problems, while humans stick to what they know — even if it’s less efficient
"Why don't you try using those opposable thumbs to fix it, huh, human?"
Old World primates can only use two ‘words’ at a time, new research suggests
"It's not the human system," say the authors.
Fossil Friday: tiny tooth belonged to the smallest monkey ever found
Size isn't everything.
Fossil Friday: Newly-found fossil teeth solve ancient monkey mystery
Take a bite out of this story.
Fossils reveal that primates initially had nails and claws, we just lost the latter ones
Tighter social groups and a three-borne lifestyle likely prompted the switch.
FDA shuts down nicotine addiction study over allegations of “cruel” treatment of animals
The monkeys used in the study will be sent to an animal sanctuary.
Japanese monkeys are apparently having sexual intercourse with deer
Nature gets pretty weird sometimes.
Rare Amazon monkey spotted for the first time in 80 years
We've found it, but we may soon lose it again to hunting.
Monkey business: A group of monkeys in Indonesia will steal your wallet and sell it back to you — for a cracker
The Monkey Mafia is acting up in Indonesia.
Monkeys have the vocal hardware required for speech but lack the brains
A monkey could speak just as well as you or me, were it to have the dedicated neural machinery.
Chinese researchers create autistic monkeys
Researchers in China have genetically engineered autistic monkeys which exhibit almost no social interaction.
An ancient monkey skull hints to how primate brains might have evolved
Duke University researchers made micro CT scans of the skull of ancient monkey and found its brain, though tiny by ...
Monkeys can do math, study proves
Photo: PNAS It's long been supposed that monkeys are capable of mental arithmetics, but it was only recently that this ...
25 million year old primate fossil found
Paleontologists working at Ohio University have unearthed evidence of two new species of ancient primates, named Rukwapithecus fleaglei and Nsungwepithecus ...
New beautifully colored monkey species discovered in Africa
This bright little fellow is known as the lesula to the local people of a remote part of the Democratic ...
Wild monkeys to monitor radiation levels in Japan
How do you measure the radiation level at the Fukushima power plant, without endangering people in the process? Researchers found ...