Not Sci-Fi Anymore: World’s First Live-Birth Chimeric Monkey Glows Green
Breakthrough in Primate Research: Birth of a Chimeric Monkey Chinese researchers have reported the first live birth of a chimeric monkey, a significant breakthrough in…
Breakthrough in Primate Research: Birth of a Chimeric Monkey Chinese researchers have reported the first live birth of a chimeric monkey, a significant breakthrough in…
Research suggests that ‘downclimbing’ from trees played a pivotal role in early human evolution. The mobility in human shoulders and the flexibility of our elbows,…
Research indicates that certain neural cell circuits responsible for color vision are exclusive to humans. Research in the field of color vision has uncovered new…
Researchers from Penn, Inserm, and elsewhere observed that the number of grooming partners an individual animal had predicted the size of brain areas associated with…
Potential Model for New Studies of Depression, Anxiety, Alzheimer’s Disease Rhesus macaques showed ability to perceive their own heartbeat Interoception an important marker in neuropsychiatric…
Play amongst adult howler monkeys increases during competitive foraging. New research has discovered that adult howler monkeys use play to avoid conflict and reduce group…
Chimpanzees don’t automatically know what to do when they come across nuts and stones. Researchers at the University of Zurich have now used field experiments…
Snow monkeys living in one of the world’s coldest regions survive by ‘going fishing’ – scooping live animals, including brown trout, out of Japanese rivers…
“Schneider’s marmoset” is found in the highly threatened, but little-studied forests of Mato Grosso State. team of scientists has discovered a new marmoset species in…
Ever since humans began committing their view of the world to flat slabs of rock and papyrus, we had a sense that our mental maps…
Female putty-nosed monkeys use calls just to recruit males when certain predators are detected Results suggest that different “dialects” exist among different populations of monkeys…
When humans look out at a visual landscape like a sunset or a beautiful overlook, we experience something — we have a conscious awareness of…
Humans continuously observe and evaluate interactions between third parties to decide with whom to interact in the future. But it is difficult to measure what…
It’s not a coincidence that dogs are cuter than wolves, or that goats at a petting zoo have shorter horns and friendlier demeanors than their…
Study shows Old World monkeys combine items in speech — but only two and never more, unlike humans. The utterances of Old World monkeys, some…
Japanese macaques, also known as snow monkeys, have been enjoying regular baths in the hot spring at Jigokudani in Japan for decades – and have…
A newly published study from Yale University shows that although Capuchin monkeys exhibit a number of irrational behaviors similar to humans, the monkeys aren’t fooled…
A newly published study describes Lesula (Cercopithecus lomamiensis), a recently discovered monkey species living in a remote part of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Researchers…