Foresight & Innovation in a Devious Chimpanzee
A chimpanzee in at the Furuvik Zoo in Sweden is documented to store various projectile object to be thrown at …
Category Archives: Neuroscience
Non-Human Primate Tool Use: Gorillas Wielding Weapons, Macaques & Mirror Neurons
I’m scouring the American Journal of Primatology for a paper on gorillas using tools as weapons in the wild. National …
Rhesus Macaques are Statisticians
There’s new research coming out from Nature that shows us rhesus macaques are really tuned into statistics and probabilities, they …
Using Macaques to treat Parkinson’s Disease
I consider Pakinson’s a very devastating neurodegenerative disease because the affected individuals are fully aware of their degeneration. Unlike Alzheimer’s, where …
Brainstorming the Future of Primate Brain Evolution Research
The following post is a departure from my usual reporting on an interesting primate related tidbit of research. I’ll be …
Sexual selection and its influence on primates brains
Since primate brains and sexual dimorphism are topics that are still fresh on our minds after this morning’s post, I …
The Human Mutation – a mutation in neuropsin is found only in humans
So if you have been in the dark about what’s been making a lot of buzz around the internet today, …
Atlanta Zoo’s Orangutans play video games!
Well hot dang, I was reading Omni Brain the other day, where Steve broke the news that Atlanta Zoo’s orangutans …
Primate brain evolution: Integrating multiple lines of evidence
Last year, Nick Matzke of the ever informative evolutionary biology blog “The Panda’s Thumb” posted a neat little graph where …
FEELIX Growing: Robots and the animal mind
BBC News recently reported on a pretty interesting three-year long research project that is not the typical non-human primate-focused research …
