VRINDAVAN, India – Krishna, a skinny 12-year-old, waits near a Hindu temple packed with pilgrims. He hears a yell – that's his cue. He zigzags between motorbikes and honking tuk-tuks, elbows his way ...

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 ...

If you matched a Swiss singer against a monkey vocalist in a yodeling contest, the non-human primate would win handily, according to a study published in the journal Philosophical Transactions of the ...

Dorothy Cheney and Robert Seyfarth, who are married to each other and have two daughters, received their Ph.D.'s at the University of Cambridge. They previously edited Primate Societies (University of ...

New World monkeys are mostly distinguished from their Old World counterparts – found in tropical Africa and Asia – by their flat noses, small to medium size, and tree-dwelling tendencies. How monkeys ...

Deep in the forests of Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula, a story of animal intelligence and social cooperation has unfolded over the last decade. Researchers studying Geoffroy’s spider monkeys have ...

This monkey stole a pair of glasses (top left), tried them on — and returned them for a reward of mango juice. Spectacle-stealing, juice-loving monkeys are an issue in in Vrindavan, India. (Maya Levin ...

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 ...