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Why do researchers care if a bee can learn to recognise a human face? When we push animals outside familiar territory, we can learn a lot about intelligence.
When resources are tight, mothers bear the costs of playing with their offspring even as they avoid socializing with others.
Why wild chimpanzees end up as pets and how we can keep them in the wild.
Orangutans, gorillas and chimpanzees seem to enjoy the buzz of getting dizzy.
Almost all theories of human bipedalism explain it as a terrestrial adaptation. A new study does not support that view.
Friendships between these two very different primates likely outlasted your promise to be best buds forever with your school classmates.
Cameroon’s Anglophone crisis could escalate into a complex disaster emergency with dire environmental consequences.
As in humans, environmental changes provoked chimpanzees to develop a diverse range of behaviours.
Jane Goodall is a pioneering primatologist who redefined what it means to be human. She spoke to Clive Phillips, a professor of animal welfare.
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