Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new study has found that chimpanzees may be far from shy bathroomgoers. A team of researchers spent more than 600 hours studying ...

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Macaques ingest clumps of clay to help their digestive system process the sugars, fats, and dairy products from human snacks ...

People’s love of furry animals is having some unexpected effects on the monkeys living in Gibraltar. A study out today shows ...

Rhesus macaques in U.S. research laboratories frequently pull out their own hair, pace in tight loops, and rock back and forth, behaviors long attributed to the stress of captivity. A study published ...

Researchers said the monkeys have been observed eating soil more frequently, a behavior they said may help the macaques avoid ...

Researchers found that New World monkeys can produce extreme yodeling-like sounds by rapidly switching between their vocal folds (for low tones) and specialized vocal membranes (for high tones), ...

A recent study into same-sex behavior in primates finds that social organization and ecological factors, including climatic conditions, influence this behavior. In gorilla groups, same-sex relations ...

Part I. Introduction. 1. Why is it important to continue studying the behavioral ecology and conservation management of howler monkeys? / Martín M. Kowalewski, Paul A. Garber, Liliana Cortés-Ortiz, ...