Do Chimpanzees Understand Death?
Maggie Koerth-Baker, senior writer for Boing Boing, recently wrote an article in the New York Times reviewing the behaviors …
Maggie Koerth-Baker, senior writer for Boing Boing, recently wrote an article in the New York Times reviewing the behaviors …
For as long as I’ve been alive, wild chimpanzees have been “endangered” under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). Captive-born chimps, …
A paper published in the journal Behavioural Processes describes a rare phenomenon, midwifery behavior among black snub-nosed monkeys in Yunnan, …
The bonobo genome is sequenced. The letter reporting was recently published in Nature, and is available openly under the title, “The bonobo …
Eva Maria Luëf and Katja Liebal of the Free University of Berlin have published in the American Journal of Primatology …
A chimpanzee in at the Furuvik Zoo in Sweden is documented to store various projectile object to be thrown at …
Infanticide and cannibalism are two extreme behaviors seen in primates. Though extreme, the persistence of these behaviors in primates suggest …
Do you know that fossil primates once roam North America? I didn’t know either so this discovery was a shock …
On April 13, 2011, The Maryland Zoo in Baltimore announced the birth of an Endangered Coquerel’s Sifaka (Propithecus coquereli) making …
Last week, I blogged about the semantics of alarm calls in vervet monkeys. This post will focus solely on the …