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Humans and macaques are developing shared social behaviors. These monkeys learn from people in unexpected ways. Scientists ...

The intrinsic information-seeking impulse we call curiosity is independent of extrinsic rewards, such as food or mating ...

A colony of macaques that gorge on snacks offered by tourists in the British territory of Gibraltar swallow soil to recover ...

Research in recent years has linked a person's physical or social environment to their well-being. Stress wears down the body and compromises the immune system, leaving a person more vulnerable to ...

The Caribbean Primate Research Center on Monkey Island is one of the world’s top institutions for studying primate behavior Jennifer Nalewicki | Travel Correspondent Some 1,500 rhesus macaques live a ...

You’ll want to know why a tiny macaque clutching a stuffed orangutan has sent people online into a frenzy. Punch‑kun was abandoned at birth, raised by zookeepers, and now carries his plush companion ...