New research looks for patterns in this sad phenomenon.
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It’s not just humans who enjoy interacting with other animal species.
It’s rare for a completely new primate species to be named.
Tamarins and squirrel monkeys have babies with unspeakably large heads compared to their mother’s birth canal.
Understanding how female baboons benefit from social bonds helps humans understand their own origins.
Chimps build a new nest every night – but how they choose what to build and where is surprisingly complicated.
For effective child-rearing outcomes, parenting should not be seen as fixed styles — authoritative or permissive — but as a flexible, adaptive process shaped by environment.
With Jane Goodall and Dian Fossey, Galdikas changed the face of science and opened the world’s eyes to how similar humans are to orangutans and other primates.
Japanese macaques are smart social animals. We expect that Punch will be able to learn how to find a place in his monkey group.
Many wild animals die when well meaning locals and tourists set them free.
Punch’s attachment to his plushie isn’t just the subject of a heart-wrenching video. It harks back to the story of a very famous set of 1950s psychology experiments.
Tails may have disappeared from our earliest ape ancestors due to a genetic mistake.
Great apes are hugely popular with the public at zoos, but a dark illegal trade is affecting the survival of these much-loved animals.
What muscles feet have, how your brain controls them, and how humans evolved all play a part in why people can’t easily move individual toes.
Chimpanzees are capable of responding to wounds in inventive and sometimes cooperative ways.
What chimpanzees can teach us about climate change
Jane Goodall showed tremendous courage in charting her own course as a pioneering researcher – and working to spread hope wherever she went.
Alcohol consumption is common across human societies, but do animals other than humans regularly drink alcohol?
Most primate societies do not have clear-cut sex-biases when it comes to power.
New research overturns decades of assumptions about how – and where – our lineage began.
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