Monkeys on a reduced-calorie diet live longer than those that can eat as much as they want, a new study suggests. ... which is published today in Nature Communications.

The laboratory monkeys run obsessively in circles, largely ignore their peers and grunt anxiously when stared at. Engineered to have a gene that is related to autism spectrum disorder in people ...

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Monkeys, too, seem to have knowledge of the therapeutic. New cases are reported every year, and zoopharmacognosy, the study of self-medication in animals, is a growing field.

Monkeys have a complex social system, and they form relationships with each other on an individual basis. When they encounter each other, monkeys will remember back to past interactions.

NATURE: SNOW MONKEYS capture their story. Their leader is still new to the job and something of a solitary grouch. One innocent little monkey, unaware of his own low status, ...

Science | January 2021. What Japan’s Wild Snow Monkeys Can Teach Us About Animal Culture. Scientists have been studying the primates at some of the nation’s hot springs, and what they have ...

Charles Darwin wondered if animals were aware of themselves. Allowed to visit a rare orangutan in the London Zoo, he brought a mirror and observed the ape apparently make faces at its own reflection.

More Than 30 Million Years Ago, Monkeys Rafted Across the Atlantic to South America Fossil teeth uncovered in Peru reveal that an extinct family of primates, thought to have lived only in Africa ...