Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists are studying how monkeys living on a remote island off the coast of Puerto Rico during and after the devastation of ...

Screening an instructional monkey movie in a forest reveals that marmosets do not only learn from family members: they also copy on-screen strangers. It is the first time such a video has been used ...

DURHAM, N.C. -- Psychologists have found evidence that monkeys have sophisticated abilities to acquire and apply knowledge using some of the same strategies as do humans. Specifically, the researchers ...

Researchers recently conducted an open diffusion experiment to explore how capuchin monkeys learn novel behaviors, shedding light on the roles of social learning, observation, and affiliative ...

Why are some primates, such as sooty mangabeys, able to live with simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) infection, whereas others, such as rhesus macaques, succumb to an AIDS-like disease? Understanding ...