Long-tailed macaques given short videos were glued to scenes of fighting—especially when the combatants were monkeys they knew—mirroring the human draw to drama and familiar faces. Low-ranking ...

The study provides the first evidence that baboons and macaques share the same geometric intuitions present in young humans.

Summary: A research team demonstrated that non-human primates (olive baboons and Rhesus macaques), young human children, and ...

Scientists have long thought humans have a uniquely difficult birth compared to other primates.And it's true that from an evolutionary perspective, we face an obstetrical dilemma. As we evolved to ...

With their ability to use tools, remember faces and even learn how to communicate with humans through sign language, nonhuman ...

Our geometric intuition, long considered something that sets us apart, seems to be shared with other primates.

We readily distinguish regular geometric shapes with features like parallel sides, symmetry, and right angles from irregular ones. Even Indigenous people without formal math education demonstrate core ...

The capacity to grieve for dying loved ones was long considered a uniquely human ability. But now, researchers from Japan have shown that humans are less unique in this respect than once thought. In a ...

An inherited form of blindness directly comparable to a common inherited optic nerve disease in humans has been discovered in rhesus macaques at the California National Primate Research Center at the ...

Incidents that make us consider the relationship between humans and wild animals are happening all over Japan, from bear attacks to crop damage by wild animals. How should we interpret the current ...

Monkeys display the same, basic understanding of geometry seen in human preschoolers, according to new research from Carnegie Mellon University's Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences.