Brazilian Capuchin Stone Tool Use
Researchers from Oxford University, working in Brazil, found new archaeological evidence suggests that Brazilian capuchins have been using stone tools …
Category Archives: Psychology
Mysterious Chimpanzee Stone Throwing Ritual
In the above video you will see a large male chimp approaching a tree. He pauses for a second, then …
Wild Gorilla Happy Meal Time Songs
Many animals, including chimpanzees and bonobos, have food related calls… But aside from anecdotal reports, there was no evidence of …
Rare Footage Show Gorilla Sleeping Behaviors
Footage filmed for a new BBC series ‘Gorilla Family & Me’ reveals what goes on after dark. A family of endangered …
Chimpanzees Changing The Food Calls To Match Their Counterparts
Katie Slocombe from the University of York observed that before integrating the two different groups of chimpanzees, each produced different …
Do Chimpanzees Understand Death?
Maggie Koerth-Baker, senior writer for Boing Boing, recently wrote an article in the New York Times reviewing the behaviors …
Gorilla Baby Talk
Eva Maria Luëf and Katja Liebal of the Free University of Berlin have published in the American Journal of Primatology …
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 …
Baboon Metaphysics: The Evolution of a Social Mind
Baboon Metaphysics Dorothy Cheney and Robert Seyfarth, authors of “How Monkeys see the World” and co-authors of “Primate Social Systems” …
Right-Handed Bias & The Origins Of Communication
I spent a couple years studying non-verbal communication in gorillas, so to read news that there’s some breakthroughs in our …
