A researcher has found that the rapid detection of snakes by monkeys is because of the presence of snake scales as a visual cue. His findings highlight an evolutionary adaptation of primates to ...

Move over Mason Ramsey, there’s a new yodeler in town. The best yodeler in the world isn’t human, but rather of the monkey variety. Researchers from Anglia Ruskin University and the University of ...

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 ...

Witness the striking beauty and emotion of the Japanese snow monkey. In the freezing mountains, these intelligent primates reveal how nature adapts — strength, warmth, and survival in harmony. If Iran ...

THE TRAIN STATION — How do monkeys stay so limber and graceful? How are they able to leap from tree to tree, making it all look so easy? Turns out, they have a strict workout that keeps them in ...

Scientists Sakumi Iki and Ikuma Adachi recently spent a lot of time watching monkeys scratch themselves. Self-scratching among non-human primates is known to indicate social tension and anxiety. The ...

Monkeys exhibited an immediate response to images of snakes and salamanders with snake skin, but not to images of salamanders without scale. Dr. Nobuyuki Kawai from Nagoya University in Japan has ...