An asteroid strike 66 million years ago wiped out the non-avian dinosaurs and devastated the Earth’s forests, but tree-dwelling ancestors of primates...
Baboons learn about food locations socially through monitoring the behaviour of those around them. While proximity to others is the key to acquiring...
̽»¨Ö±²¥flexible physiology of Barbary macaques in responding to extreme environmental conditions of their natural habitat may help shed light on the...
Evolutionary ‘trade-off’ between size of throat and testes discovered in howler monkeys furthers Darwin’s theory of sexual selection and corresponds...
Research into differences between chimpanzees and bonobos in ‘preparation’ for tool use reveals intriguing sex bias in object manipulation in young...
First evidence for a species difference in the innate predisposition for tool use in our closest evolutionary cousins could provide insight into how...
When food is scarce, tool use among non-human primates does not increase. This counterintuitive finding leads researchers to suggest that the driving...
New research shows that chimpanzees search for the right tools from a key plant species when preparing to ‘ant dip’ - a crafty technique enabling...
