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

If you've got a monkey, with the right permissions, and you're on the hunt for the perfect name, there are plenty of fun ...

They used videos of a macaque scratching themselves to induce self-scratching in their study subjects, since this behavior is contagious, similar to yawning. They trained the monkeys to choose ...

Mar. 12, 2025 — We're all familiar with Pavlovian conditioning, in which a reward-anticipatory behavior follows a reward-predicting stimulus. Perhaps you experience it yourself when passing a ...

The “New World monkey” group includes five primate families: Callitrichidae, Cebidae, Aotidae, Pitheciidae, and Atelidae, and are in the parvorder Platyrrhini. There are more than 16 New World monkey ...

From mice performing first aid to birds using antioxidants, animals display remarkable self-medication behaviors that could ...

What is a woolly monkey? An animal called a woolly monkey seems like it should live in the frozen north, not the sweltering Amazon Basin. But the thick coat of fur covering these large primates ...

The set of connections of any brain region is so specific that brain regions have a unique connectivity fingerprint. In our study, we compared these connectivity fingerprints across the human, ...