Monkeys sometimes have ‘pets’ like humans
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Chimpanzees Keep Throwing Stones at the Same Trees – Scientists Want To Know Why
Accumulative stone throwing is a rare, potentially cultural, behavior that has been observed among four groups of wild…
17-Million-Year-Old Ape Fossil in Egypt Could Change What We Know About Human Origins
Reconstruction of Masripithecus moghraensis by Mauricio AntĂłn. Credit: Professor Hesham Sallam Researchers have identified a previously unknown fossil…
Humans are the only primates with a lopsided hand preference
Of all the monkeys and apes scientists have studied, no species shows a population-level hand preference. Individual primates…
Why Are Humans The Only Animals That Cook Their Food? An Evolutionary Biologist Explains
The human ability to cook may seem ordinary, but it marks one of the most important evolutionary turning…
BirutĂ© Galdikas, Louis Leakey protĂ©gĂ©e who became the world’s foremost expert on orangutans – obituary
Alongside her studies of orangutans living in the wild, she established Camp Leakey as a care and rehabilitation…
Punch the monkey is seen cuddling with fellow macaque at Japanese zoo
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Escaped monkeys in St Louis prompt experts to help with potential capture
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Several monkeys continue to be on the loose in St.…
Apes Were Kissing Millions of Years Before Humans, Study Suggests
While kissing might feel like one of the most natural things in the world, this familiar behavior is…
One of 3 escaped research monkeys found in Mississippi after truck crash
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! One of three monkeys that escaped after a truck hauling…
New Study Shatters Long-Standing Myths About Primate Origins
The first primates were about the size of a mouse lemur: tiny. Credit: Jason Gilchrist Primates originated in…
Chimpanzees drink the equivalent of two or three beers a day, study says | Science
The human attraction to alcoholic beverages could be, to a large extent, inherited from our primate ancestors. And…