When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Primates have larger brains than most other mammals of their size. This gives them advanced ...

Have you ever gone to the zoo and observed the monkeys picking each other? This is a well-documented, long-studied, instinctive behavior in primates (monkeys, apes, etc.) called the grooming response.

Long-tailed macaques given short videos were glued to scenes of fighting—especially when the combatants were monkeys they knew—mirroring the human draw to drama and familiar faces. Low-ranking ...

In the animal kingdom, injuries are a fact of life. In fact, wounds are so common that most mammals evolved ways to close them fast. But humans aren’t really good at healing. Our skin repairs itself ...

Smarter than primates? Without language, it becomes a level playing field. Feb. 7, 2011— -- We cooperate more than other primates, right? With our extensive systems of governance and such global ...

By Spoorthy Raman Between 2000 and 2023, more than 6,000 African primates were traded internationally in 50 countries, ...

We naked apes need Band-Aids, but shedding the fur that speeds healing in other mammals may have helped us evolve other abilities. By Elizabeth Preston Watching wild baboons in Kenya, Akiko ...

The human fascination with watching others—whether through reality TV, Instagram stories or overheard drama—is often dismissed as nosiness. But new research suggests this impulse may be a social ...

Primatologists explain how apes and monkeys differ. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. On its face, a comparison of monkeys and apes ...

SAN ANTONIO -- Twelve primates at a large animal sanctuary in Texas have died after suffering a power outage amid the historically cold weather that has slammed the state and left millions without ...