Spider monkeys live in fluid social groups that split and reform, allowing information about food sources to spread across the population. By moving between subgroups, individual monkeys help create a ...

Directed by Johannes Roberts, ‘Primate’ follows the adventures of Lucy Pinborough and her friends as they visit her isolated and picturesque house in Hawaii. Lucy’s dad, Adam, and sister, Erin, ...

The human brain is a biological anomaly—a greedy, high-maintenance organ that consumes 20% of our total daily calories despite making up only 2% of our body weight. For decades, evolutionary ...

Jane Goodall, who spent decades studying chimpanzees and advocating for their protection, uncovered something unexpected in her work: These primates helped reverse a climate disaster that occurred ...

We all know that chimpanzees and other animals are extremely intelligent and deeply emotional. And now a recent and extremely detailed study shows just how smart chimpanzees can be and that there are ...

When you learned about the history of human evolution in school, there's a good chance you were shown one all-too-familiar image. That picture probably showed a conga line of human-like creatures, ...

When Jane Goodall arrived at Tanzania's Gombe Stream in 1960, she carried neither a doctoral degree nor conventional scientific training. What she possessed was something far more useful: the ...

Prologue -- Part one. Social behavior. Primate diversity -- Barbary macaques : model monkeys -- Primate social systems -- Chacma baboons : into the wild -- Guinea baboons : uncharted territories -- ...

Ai, a "genius" chimpanzee who could recognise more than 100 Chinese characters and the English alphabet, has died aged 49, Japanese researchers said. Ai, which means love in Japanese, took part in ...