And a recent study found subtle but fascinating differences in the behaviour-emotion connection in humans and monkeys.

So, a rat is not a monkey is not a human. Studying the behaviour of rodents is valid ethological and neurobiological work, and animal welfare is certainly important. However, it is the pain of ...

Being human, or at least human-looking, is not all it’s cracked up to be for one zoo monkey. According to Daily Mail, a Margarita Island capuchin living at China’s Tianjin Zoo is popular with ...

There are hundreds of different cell types that make up the human body, each derived from a single origin: the fertilized egg. Researchers investigating how this complexity arises have made ...

An international team of researchers has created embryos containing both human and monkey cells, the Spanish newspaper El País reported July 31. The controversial project was conducted in China, ...