Clever orangutans confirm Aesop&#39;s fable
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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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A spectator with an especially intimate view of human evolution is beginning to tell its story and has so far divulged two quite unexpected findings.
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A nearly 13 million-year-old ape fossil discovered in Spain is the last probable common ancestor to all living humans and great apes, a research team says in today&#39;s issue of Science magazine.
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THE discovery by Australian scientists on the Indonesian island of Flores of an entirely new humanoid species - colloquially dubbed &quot;hobbits&quot; because of their diminutive stature â-uts a new piece in place in the long scientific mission to understand
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The scientific world has just been given an amazing new insight into the complexities of human evolution. A team of Indonesian and Australian scientists has discovered fossils of a new human
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[World News]: London, Dec 10 : Cambridge University researchers have concluded that use of tools is habitual in monkeys after collecting the first hand evidence on this score.
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Aerial survey shows antelope and gazelle in what could be one of the greatest natural events on Earth.
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A recent behavioral study demonstrated that animals understand and react to the concept of fairness. In the study, monkeys were given unequal rewards for completing equal tasks.
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A new fossil found in Spain may be the closest yet to the common ancestor of all great apes, perhaps including humans, researchers say.
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Using helicopters to count endangered orang-utans gives very accurate estimates of the great apes' numbers, researchers report in Plos Biology.
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Reseachers have linked the survival of the Acacia tree-ant relationship to Africa's big browsing mammals
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Chimpanzees display a similar sense of fairness to humans, one which is shaped by social relationships, experts claim.
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New research provides more evidence that chimpanzee brains are human-like in terms of the links between brain asymmetry, language and right- or left-handedness.
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It has long been suspected that man&#39;s best friend has a special ability to sense when something is wrong with us. Now the first experiment to verify that scientifically has demonstrated that dogs are able to smell cancer.
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Man became the world&#39;s alpha species thanks to his outsized brain, according to the view that has dominated anthropology for decades.
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One of the world's largest cases of  great ape smuggling will draw to a close next week when around  50 orangutan rescued from a Thai amusement park fly home to  their native Indonesia, a wildlife campaigner said on Thursday.
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Okapi are phantasmagoric creatures that have inspired the work of Dr. Terese Hart, the director of the Wildlife Conservation Society in Congo.