Experts highlight threat to lesser-known apes and monkeys from large-scale habitat destruction and illegal wildlife trade More than half the world’s primates, including apes, lemurs and monkeys, are ...

Two Nobel laureates among 400 scientists who sign letter rejecting claims that use of primates is no longer medically useful More than 400 scientists including two Nobel laureates have signed a letter ...

Thanks to our large brains, humans and non-human primates are smarter than most mammals. But why do some species develop large brains in the first place? The leading hypothesis for how primates ...

Primate species with better colour vision are not more likely to have red skin or fur colouration, as previously thought. The findings, published this week in the Biological Journal of the Linnean ...

Primates are considered to be among the most intelligent creatures in the animal kingdom. This is especially so concerning chimpanzees, who top the non-human intelligence list. However, among primates ...

We like to sit down and break bread with one another, share a platter and join around a table to tuck into a hearty meal. Consider ourselves human, and the idea of sharing food this way seems utterly ...

Monkeys and apes are trying to tell us something. After all, some of the non-human primates that share 98.5% of our genetic code can and do talk to us. Take Kanzi, for instance; this bonobo chimp ...

They say the number of threatened species has risen sharply in the last three years. Primates living in two south-east Asian countries are said to be especially endangered. But several species are ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Is it true that male animals are dominant over females? Previous studies have often found male-biased power in primates and other ...

Cruelty Free International says tests on primates should be abandoned In a small, bare, windowless room in Newcastle University's Institute of Neuroscience, Ukiah, a six-year-old macaque monkey, is ...

The world's primates face an "extinction crisis" with 60% of species now threatened with extinction, according to research. A global study, involving more than 30 scientists, assessed the conservation ...