For decades, scientists have been studying the cognition of great apes to understand how our own complex cognitive abilities ...

As members of the exclusive primate family, we humans know just how special this mammalian order is. Even our most distant primate relatives share about 96 percent of their DNA with us, proving we may ...

In a new article published in Frontiers in Bioinformatics, biologists Dr. Jack M Craig, Dr. Blair Hedges, and Dr. Sudhir Kumar, all at Temple University, have built an evolutionary tree that ...

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For wildlife travellers, primate watching offers a deeper understanding of India's ecosystems. Observing these species in the ...

On their Indonesian island, crested black macaques are hunted for meat, kept as pets, and threatened by a shrinking habitat.

Eventually the property will feature several different enclosures for different types of primates, April Stewart says. An enclosure for the kinkajous is almost finished, according to Stewart, and she ...

The order Primates consists of not only our closest relatives on earth, the seven great apes, but also over 450 species of monkeys, lemurs, lorises, and galagos. Primates are fantastically diverse, ...