Scientists call this phenomenon emotional mimicry. Biologists and psychologists consider this automatic matching of another’s ...

From tool-using chimpanzees to puzzle-solving capuchins, the primate world is packed with surprising brainpower. But how do the planet’s cleverest monkeys and apes really compare with human intelligen ...

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Psychologists have spent decades demonstrating the amazing abilities of animals. We now know, from lab experiments, that chimps can use blue triangles to represent red apples, and that dolphins can ...

While this is by no means a quantum leap for HIV treatment in humans, any AIDS progress is great AIDS progress. Especially when the progress is in our furry monkey relatives, who are responding ...

A colony of African vervets in Dania Beach raises big questions about how humans can and should manage nonnative species.

Considered messengers of the gods, the macaques are now made to wear costumes, do backflips, and walk on stilts to please crowds.