On its face, a comparison of monkeys and apes seems straightforward: Modern primates have defining physical features and behaviors that clearly sort them in different categories. Beginning with living ...

Scientists have long tried to understand the human brain by comparing it to other primates. Researchers are still trying to understand what makes our brain different from our closest relatives. Our ...

The familiar claim about humans evolving from apes leaves out an important part of the story. Fossils and DNA reveal a much more complicated family history than the popular version suggests.

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One of the big questions we raise in comparative psychology is about the main difference between humans and animals. There is an easy short answer to what sets us apart from the rest of the animals: ...

There are around 500 living species of primates today, and they are split into two major groups – the strepsirrhines and the haplorhines. Strepsirrhines include lemurs, lorises, pottos, and galagos, ...

Punch, a 7-month-old macaque monkey, has gone viral online after he was abandoned by his mother at the Ichikawa City Zoo, outside Tokyo. The closest thing he had to loved ones was the zookeepers who ...

Discover intricate mechanisms in the primates’ throats that help them rapidly shift their pitch up and down. If you matched a Swiss singer against a monkey vocalist in a yodeling contest, the ...

A new study has found that the world's finest yodellers aren't from Austria or Switzerland, but the rainforests of Latin America. The research provides significant new insights into the diverse vocal ...

Apes and monkeys may look similar at first glance, but they belong to separate branches of the primate family and differ in several important ways. Their bodies, movement, and social structures ...