Monkeys use tools to forage
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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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Birds may not be renowned for their intelligence but New Caledonian crows have an instinctive ability to make and use tools, researchers said on Wednesday.
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Researchers have found evidence of a population of chimps that shares plant foods.
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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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11/10/2004 New research in monkeys suggests that a diet high in soy could be good for the hearts and bones of premenopausal women.
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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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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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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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British scientists have supported the  use of primates in medical research to improve human health and  reduce deaths from disease but only if no alternatives were  available.
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Were early mammals timid creatures suitable only for eating? Not all of them, suggest two remarkable fossils from China
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Japan is preparing to mobilise troops to deal with wild animals such as boars, bears and monkeys.
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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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A third of the 394 known species of apes, monkeys, lemurs and other groups are listed as threatened with extinction in a new report from the World Conservation Union.
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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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Male macaque monkeys pay for sex by grooming females, according to a recent study that suggests the primates may treat sex as a commodity. "In primate societies, grooming is the underlying fabric of it all," Dr. Michael Gumert, a primatologist at the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, said in a telephone interview Saturday.
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SOURGOUROU, Niger -- Perched among the top branches of an acacia tree, Hassan Abdoulaye scanned the horizon for the tallest animal on earth. But spotting members of the last wild giraffe herd in West Africa is never easy. They blend in well.
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Authorities in Puerto Rico are using cages and mangos to try to trap hundreds of marauding monkeys &#151; descendants of escaped research animals &#151; and hope to send them off to sanctuaries or labs, or to kill them.