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 ...

Primates are a group of mammals that includes humans and our close relatives, such as apes, monkeys and lemurs. Monkeys, such as capuchins and macaques; prosimians, like lemurs and tarsiers; lesser ...

Freedom for Great Apes, a Central Oregon sanctuary for primates, has closed its doors and transferred its remaining animals to a larger facility in Texas. Four chimpanzees who lived in the Tumalo ...

Researchers have found two important building blocks of human speech in wild chimpanzees, one of our closest relatives. A pair of studies finds that chimp communication includes both rhythmic ...

Twenty-five years after the film's release, the chimps from "MVP" feel the lingering effects of a life in show business. Kelsea Petersen / The Athletic; Tim DiFrisco / Getty, Tom Pidgeon / Getty ...

Researchers at the University of College London recently undertook a massive study to better understand chimps. The team analyzed data from fecal samples of 828 wild chimpanzees across 30 populations, ...

On an island in Panama, a fad that one researcher called "viscerally disturbing" has recently taken off among a group of young male monkeys. These adolescents and juveniles have started to kidnap the ...

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Why don't animals keep pets? Oh, I can already hear the howls of objections. What about Koko's Kitten, you ask, referring to the well-known case of the American Sign Language-trained gorilla who fell ...

Chimpanzees naturally ingest surprising amounts of alcohol from ripe, fermenting fruit. Careful measurements show that their typical fruit diet can equal one to two human drinks each day. This ...

The beauty of the Lunar Zodiac is that it brings us affinity with our animal kin, real and mythological. We live out our years under our animal sign, manifesting their astrological personalities. Each ...