Macaca fascicularis, or the crab-eating macaque monkey, may not look very human-like but this non-human primate is actually one of our closest genetic relatives and often used as a stand-in for ...

but in the instincts of a primitive part of the human brain? New research I conducted with rhesus macaque monkeys suggests that when it comes to decisions like voting, people are not nearly as ...

Monkeys are quadrupedal, using their forelimbs and hind limbs for locomotion. Though many primates occasionally walk upright ...

While humans, chimpanzees and other apes share ... yet they share common traits of intelligence and sociability. Some, like the spider monkey, effortlessly swing through branches, while others ...

The internet has reacted to the video, praising the monkey's intelligence. A monkey has left the internet in awe with its remarkable adaptation to walk like a human after losing its forelimbs.

Elon Musk’s Neuralink Corp. used a brain implant to enable a monkey to see something that wasn’t physically there, according ...

previously observed only in humans, bottlenose dolphins and African elephants. Marmoset monkeys have now joined this exclusive club, according to a new study published in Science on Thursday.

But while many primates have mastered ways of manipulating the environment, says Poindexter, humans have a much more extensive “built environment” full of artificial structures. Monkeys, like humans, ...

It's technically a yodel, even though it might not sound much like the human version (cf. the recording of a tufted capuchin above). The monkeys' "ultra-yodels" had frequency leaps that were five ...