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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 ...

Picture this: a group of hairy, wild primates bounding across the African savannas stumbles upon a patch of strange mushrooms growing on dung. Curious and hungry, they eat them. Their senses ...

Human brains don’t just excel at problem-solving; they are wired for deep emotional and social processing. Comparing humans to other primates, researchers found unique brain connections that shape ...

Researchers have widely accepted that what sets humans apart from nonhuman primates are prefrontal cortex–driven behaviors such as decision-making, reasoning, planning, and attention. In a new ...

A rare population of leucistic, or partially white, purple-faced langurs near Sri Lanka’s Sinharaja Forest Reserve has attracted ecotourism interest, even as monkeys in general are perceived by ...

With four movies released so far (there are additional installments in development), the Planet of the Apes series has no shortage of great moments that wowed viewers. Koba steals every scene he ...

They note that upper limb length exhibits pronounced differences between males and females in anthropoid primates. In humans, upper limb length appears to correlate with fighting ability, particularly ...

Mixodectes related to primates and colugos The researchers determined that Mixodectes was more closely related to primates and colugos – also known as flying lemurs – than previously thought. “A ...