Without research on primates, we wouldn’t be able to understand the human brain – or repair it.
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Because primates have relationships too you know.
New research shows macaques can show autism-like behaviour.
The Mexican artist Frida Kahlo kept monkeys as pets and painted them often. They symbolised the children she couldn’t have and were worshipped as gods of fertility in Aztec times.
There must be some evolutionary force acting to maintain this visual ‘defect’.
A number of monkey species eat rough leaves, soils and charcoal to treat or prevent diseases.
The iconic southern African Chacma baboon is in danger. The species is facing a population decline.
Animalisation remains a malicious and effective form of dehumanisation. Simianisation is a version of this strategy, which historically manifested a lethal combination of sexism and racism.
Social organisation plays a key role in the wide variation seen in the size of male howler monkey calls and the size of their testes.
Infant monkeys who play more develop better motor skills even though they grow more slowly, a study has found.
Social animals also have societies to run and voters to please.
Macaque monkeys grow up with their mothers and are often not familiar with their fathers. But they can recognise the paternal side of the family even without ever being introduced to them, according to…
New links have been found between the colour patterns in a monkey’s face and its social structure and environment. Research…
Zoos are great places to study animals. The non-human primates among them get the most attention from researchers. Some of them are trained to interact with computers for psychological research. In a new…
A group of red colobus monkeys in Uganda have been found to care less about grooming and more about sex after eating leaves…
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