A thieving capuchin monkey was left confused and disappointed after it snatched a condom packet out of a man’s bag at a beach ...

Chinese New Year red envelopes are a traditional custom typically observed during Spring Festival. People put money in red ...

Researchers recently conducted an open diffusion experiment to explore how capuchin monkeys learn novel behaviors, shedding ...

In early November, the monkeys escaped from the Alpha Genesis Primate Research Facility after a caretaker didn’t secure the ...

EXCLUSIVE: To Yolanda van der Berg, the two little capuchin monkeys playing in her home are like her own children - but ...

The work is part of the project “Effects of social dynamics on the diffusion of new behaviors in groups of capuchin monkeys (Sapajus libidinosus) inhabiting the Caatinga of the Serra da Capivara ...

Evolutionary biologists have long hypothesized that the short-term physiological responses to stress help animals survive in ...

A UCLA-led team of researchers used the environmental circumstances and fecal samples collected from the six years prior to the severe El Niño drought in Costa Rica to study the relationship between ...

White-faced capuchin monkeys in Costa Rica who experienced more intense physiological responses to mild droughts were more fit to survive extreme drought, researchers found in a new UCLA-led study.

De Waal and others said this and subsequent experiments supported the claim that humans are not alone in our sense of fairness. Similar studies on corvids, dogs, and mice have likewise been reported ...

spider monkeys, capuchin monkeys, titi monkeys, and others. Both wild-caught and purpose-bred animals are used, and in 2020 alone, 26,728 primates were imported into the United States, according to a ...