Study: Wild Monkeys Resort to Use of Tools
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Wild South American monkeys routinely use fist-sized rocks to crack open seeds and to dig in dry Brazilian soil for grubs and edible tubers, researchers report in the journal Science.
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Breaking and entering, ransacking refrigerators, and defecating in posh homes, big monkeys are showing what can happen when civilization comes to the wild.
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Almost a third of all primates face extinction because of damage to their habitats, a report warns.
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Monkeys in Brazil routinely use stones and twigs to forage for food, providing more evidence to undermine the belief that man is the only species with the intelligence to make tools.
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Two monkeys exposed to a common pesticide for more than a year developedclassic signs of Parkinson&#39;s disease, strong evidence environmental factors may destroy key brain cells regulating movement
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Go in the field with biologists studying how lemurs are coping with habitat loss, and meet the unusual creature they encounter that could be a new primate species.
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A cache of 4,300-year-old stone nutcrackers found in Africa pushes back chimpanzee tool use thousands of years, a new study suggests.
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Like humans, Diana monkeys possess a complex vocal tract whose shape can be adjusted to articulate sophisticated sounds.
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For the first time, great apes have been observed making and using tools to hunt mammals, say researchers who documented chimpanzees hunting other primates in Africa.
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Researchers who once dismissed another team's cloning method used the disputed process to create monkey embryos. By Kristen Philipkoski.
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Nearly a third of the world's apes and monkeys are threatened with extinction because of human activity, much of it illegal, a World Conservation Union report concludes.
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Apparently, the same things that makes large, toothy predators so good at hunting big game also make them more vulnerable to extinction - as is shown in a new study of a
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Studying the zebra fish spinal cord, grooming habits of the Barbary macaque and the regional impact of dams.
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Scientists in the United States find a way to turn lazy monkeys into workaholics using gene therapy.
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Monkey handler Ramal Lala strolls along New Delhi's streets, a leash on his monkey named Mungle. The local government has hired the two to chase down thousands of smaller monkeys known to roam this mega-city of 13 million people, hopping on just about anything, breaking into houses and occasionally biting spectators.
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Scientists from India working in the Himalayas have discovered a new species of monkey, a stocky, short-tailed, brown-haired creature they have named the Macaca munzala, or Arunachal macaque.
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Wild chimpanzees have been filmed using tools in combination to extract termites from mounds&#151;further evidence that tool use is not unique to humans.