One aspect of Monkey Jungle that can’t be captured in photographs is its multisensory nature. The soundscape alone is worth experiencing – a symphony of primate calls ranging from the high-pitched ...

Monkeys prefer videos of fights and familiar faces - just like humans. A study reveals surprising links in our social ...

A study reveals that great apes communicate very little with their young, suggesting that ‘baby talk’ is unique to the human ...

‘Alpha males’ was never a norm. A new study seems to suggest that male dominance is rare in primate societies, as most ...

Fifteen years after a female chimpanzee named Julie first stuck a blade of grass into her ear and started a hot new craze ...

Our faces don’t just distinguish us from other people, but other species as well. Neanderthals bore stout jaws and broad noses, their features jutting forward like cliffs of bone. Chimpanzees, our ...

What if humans didn’t have to suffer the slow-burning fire of chronic inflammation as we age? A surprising study on two types ...

Chimpanzees adopt pointless fads, just like humans, researchers have found. The animals were seen wearing grass and sticks in ...

A mutation in the immune protein FasL may make humans more vulnerable to solid tumours, but scientists say it could be fixed ...

In the early 1990s, eight people tried to survive in a hermetically sealed glass structure filled with miniature forests, oceans and savannah. Human testicles are much smaller, in proportion, to some ...

Human testicles are much smaller, in proportion, to some of our primate cousins. Evolution can tell us why. But the size of ...

Scientists say they have very strong evidence that the adult human brain is capable of making new neurons, a point of ongoing controversy in neuroscience.