New research from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology shows that wild chimpanzees plan their breakfast time, type, and location when food supplies are…
A new study concludes that even very young Sumatran orangutans (Pongo abelii) start forming ideas about their world, and how and when to use certain…
Steve Chang and his colleagues from Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, have discovered that monkeys have a specific area in their brains to keep…
The primate genus Nycticebus contains a group called slow lorises, which is closely related to lemurs, and can be found across South East Asia. Recently,…
Chimpanzees and orangutans experience a mid-life crisis just like humans, according to a survey of 508 great apes in captivity shows. The scientists published their…
A new study has calculated the energetic cost of growing a bigger brain. If humans had been eating a raw food diet exclusively, they would…
In humans, people with strong social ties live longer, and have healthier lives, whereas hostile tendencies can lead to an early death. In animals, this…
Gibbons have mastered some of the vocal techniques that are akin to what human sopranos rely on whilst delivering their operas. Japanese scientists have been…
It was recently discovered by a team of scientists that the Philippine tarsier (Tarsius syrichta) can communicate in pure ultrasound, issuing calls that are so…
While it’s expected that the animal kingdom is a fierce place, where aggression for survival dominates, a new study on bonobos (Pan paniscus) published in…
Gorillas use human-like facial expressions to communicate with each other, however, the Western Lowland gorilla equivalent of a grin means something completely different, as psychologists…