Tool use confirmed in monkeys
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UK researchers have collected the first hard evidence of monkeys using tools, Science magazine reports.
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>Tool use more widespread among chimp population  The noise came from the trees: crack, crack, crack.
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Researchers train a monkey to feed itself by guiding a mechanical arm with its mind. It could be a big step forward for prosthetics. By David Cohn.
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An international team of researchers reported that female monkeys whose vaginal surfaces were coated with an experimental drug shortly before exposure to the simian version of HIV were protected from infection.
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By Munz, Tania  LORRAINE DASTON and GREGG MITMAN (eds.), Thinking with Animals: New Perspectives on Anthropomorphism. New York: Columbia University Press, 2005. Pp. vii+230. ISBN 0-2311.3038-4. Pounds 32.00, $49.50 (hardback).
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LONDON - Wild capuchin monkeys can understand cause and effect well enough to use rocks to dig for food, scientists have found. Capuchin monkeys often use tools and solve problems in captivity and sometimes
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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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Orangutans, using water and their wits, have emulated a crow in Aesop&#39;s fable which illustrated the saying &quot;Necessity is the mother of invention,&quot; German researchers reported on Wednesday.
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Reseachers have linked the survival of the Acacia tree to Africa's big browsing mammals
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The fossil of an ancient species of ape, discovered at a construction site in western Spain, has revealed that great apes went through more evolutionary stages than previously thought.
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Scientists have found fossilised remains of what could be the last common ancestor to all the great apes living today. It will give scientists vital clues in charting the course of primate and, ultimately, human evolution.
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A recent census of the world's primate population finds that many of them are in danger of disappearing
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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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Chimpanzees in West Africa were using stone tools to crack nuts 4,300 years ago, archaeologists say.
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WASHINGTON - 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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Scientists use cloning to create personalized stem cell lines in monkeys.
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Scientists from India working in the Himalayas have discovered a new species of monkey.