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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Scientists in Japan have succeeded in controlling a humanoid robot with signals from a monkey's brain.
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The sophistication of the human brain is not simply the result of steady evolution, according to new research. Instead, humans are truly privileged animals with brains that have developed in a type of extraordinarily
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New Delhi - Scientists have discovered a new species of monkey in north-eastern India, 101 years after the last species of its kind was found, a member of the investigating team said on Thursday.
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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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NEW YORK 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 may have been using stone "hammers" as long as 4,300 years ago. An international research team, led by archaeologist Julio Mercader of the University of Calgary, Canada, said Monday it had uncovered the hammers, dated to that time, in the West African country Ivory Coast. It would be the earliest known use of tools by chimpanzees.
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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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Researchers at Duke University have demonstrated that monkeys have the ability to perform mental addition, and that they performed about as well as college students given the same test.
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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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Researchers have found evidence of a population of chimps that shares plant foods.
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The remains of a primate that could be the ancestor of humans and all the great apes is discovered.
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Paleontologiosts from the Miguel Crusafont Institute of Paleontology and the Diputacisn de Barcelona in Barcelona, Spain have found a fossil of a new ape species called Pierolapithecus catalaunicus, or its close relative that might have been the last
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DES MOINES, Iowa - Azy and Indah are about to go off to school, but they certainly are not ordinary students. They're orangutans, long-limbed, long-haired, bright-eyed primates who will become the first residents of the Great Ape Trust of Iowa, where Rob Shumaker and his associates will study their behavior and learning capabilities...
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>Tool use more widespread among chimp population  The noise came from the trees: crack, crack, crack.
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Scientists have tested whether cellular audio is good enough to play and record animal sounds in the wild.
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NEW YORK - A species of monkey previously unknown to science has been discovered in the forests of northeastern India. The Arunachal macaque has a dark face and is relatively large with a shorter tail than most macaques.