Chimpanzees have been spotted eating and sharing an alcoholic fruit in the wild for the first time, leaving scientists perplexed about why the primates would deliberately seek such a diet.

New research shows that the increase in primate ecotourism is having a negative effect on monkey's behavior. The study found that this fast-growing tourism sector where tourists can conveniently reach ...

"One result of nine-month 'Primate project' held at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, California, during 1962-1963. Organized by Sherwood L. Washburn and David A.

Learn how scientists traced kissing back 21 million years using primate behavior, evolutionary modeling, and clues from Neanderthals. What seems like a simple human gesture may actually carry roots ...

Adaptation and behavior in the primate fossil record / Callum F. Ross ... [et al.] -- Functional morphology and in vivo bone strain patterns in the craniofacial region of primates: beware of ...

Nonhuman primates are our closest living relatives, and no other group of mammals can remind us of ourselves the way nonhuman primates do. We will start this course by examining the phylogeny, ...

Cooperative behaviour and prosociality in nonhuman primates constitute a vital area of research that illuminates the evolutionary origins of complex sociality. Studies indicate that primates employ a ...

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 ...

Some primate species may express grief over the death of their infant by carrying the corpse with them, sometimes for months, according to a new UCL-led study - with implications for our understanding ...

Researchers are looking for answers behind the mystery of Gigantopithecus blacki, the largest known primate that ever lived.

What seems like a simple human gesture may actually carry roots far deeper in our evolutionary past. A new study has uncovered evidence that kissing evolved in the common ancestor of humans and other ...