Could monkeys one day become more intelligent and work alongside humans? It sounds like something from a science fiction ...

The researchers recorded the monkeys' reactions and compared them to videos of real monkeys making the same movements. In terms of time spent staring at the footage, the macaques' reactions were ...

Researchers found that New World monkeys can produce extreme yodeling-like sounds by rapidly switching between their vocal folds (for low tones) and specialized vocal membranes (for high tones), ...

Yodelers of the world, you never stood a chance: Monkeys will always be better at yodeling than humans because they have a "cheap trick" hidden in their voice box, scientists revealed Thursday. When ...

Humans have practiced some form of yodeling since at least the 13th century, when Marco Polo encountered Tibetan monks on his travels who used the vocal technique for long-distance communication. It’s ...

Meet Likweli: A remarkable new species of Colobus monkey. (Daniel Rosengren) When biologists discover a new species in the ...

Tamarins and squirrel monkeys have babies with unspeakably large heads compared to their mother’s birth canal.

Scientists have long tried to understand the human brain by comparing it to other primates. Researchers are still trying to understand what makes our brain different from our closest relatives. Our ...

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The Trump Administration recently called out the Smithsonian Institution for pushing “one-sided, divisive political narratives,” leading GOP Sen. Jim Banks last week to introduce a bill prohibiting ...