Could monkeys one day become more intelligent and work alongside humans? It sounds like something from a science fiction ...

Chinese scientists have implanted human brain genes into monkeys, in a study intended to provide insights into the unique evolution of human intelligence. Researchers inserted human versions of MCPH1, ...

CapuchinAI is a system created to study the cognitive differences of individual wild primates, who all participate by choice ...

This social behavior might reveal the evolutionary roots of traits that underlie pet-keeping in humans, scientists say, from caregiving to tolerance and curiosity. But it's not the same as a person ke ...

Monkeys and apes form surprising relationships with other species, offering clues about how our close bonds with animals ...

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Learn how capuchin monkeys hunt when fruit runs low, which parts of their prey they eat first, and what this may reveal about ...

Researchers observed and confirmed with measurements that wild sooty mangabey monkeys in an Ivory Coast forest display foot bone flexibility that facilitates vertical climbing up skinny tree trunks to ...

Wild monkeys in West Africa can climb vertical tree trunks using foot flexibility scientists did not realize they possessed.

Swaths of northern India are gripped by a heatwave, hitting humans as well as wildife including monkeys. Here, monkeys sit on a roadside in India’s capital New ...

The bearded capuchins of northeastern Brazil typically eat plant-based foods, but they turn to small vertebrates when those ...