Among primates, reconciliation quickly follows conflict. Among humans, the ego gets in the way: protecting one’s image often takes precedence over repairing social bonds.
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To study accumulative stone throwing among wild chimpanzees, researchers hike deep into the savanna-woodland of Boé — a habitat increasingly threatened by industrial mining.
Chimps build a new nest every night – but how they choose what to build and where is surprisingly complicated.
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.
When resources are tight, mothers bear the costs of playing with their offspring even as they avoid socializing with others.
Tourists can do a number of things to avoid dangerous encounters with monkeys.
In many animals, including humans, adverse events in youth have lasting negative health effects over the life span. But new research suggests something different is going on in mountain gorillas.
Most of us have heard of the dangers of deforestation but there are other more subtle ways that human beings can endanger monkeys, apes and lemurs.
Macaque tooth wear was identical to our ancestors, throwing into question the long held belief that tool use caused the markings on hominin tooth fossils.
How Rekambo chimpanzees demonstrate a number of ground breaking behaviours never seen before in animals.
Differences between male and female skulls in some species of gibbon may shed light on how our extinct ancestors lived.
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