A professor asked him to help design the toys and structure for a small monkey enclosure. As a graduate student, he created ...

Capuchin monkeys use stones to pound open nuts on a solid surface, which is considered the most complex tool used by a ...

Jackie Morfesis of Charleston writes that the monkeys that escaped from Alpha Genesis primate center in SC shine a light on ...

The installation of heaters and bulbs provides additional warmth. These arrangements particularly benefit lions, bears, tigers, zebra, giraffe, capuchin monkeys, mandarin ducks, exotic birds and other ...

Capuchin monkeys learn by observing others solve a puzzle for food. Social tolerance and grooming enhance learning.

The study indicates that the monkeys mainly learned from others via direct observation, and strong social tolerance (e.g. amongst grooming partners) was found to be a good predictor of which monkeys ...

Anthropologists and psychologists have studied wild monkeys' problem-solving for food to better understand how social ...

A juvenile bearded capuchin observing a female processing a food item in Brazil’s Serra da Capivara National Park. Credit: Camila Galheigo Coelho ...

Wild bearded capuchins use social learning to solve problems, influenced by social tolerance and group dynamics.

As winter arrives in Guwahati, the Assam State Zoo-cum-Botanical Garden ensures the comfort of its 1300 animals with special ...

A Manatee County man known as “the Monkey Whisperer,” who made headlines two years ago after he admitted selling an ...

A Parrish man known as “The Monkey Whisperer” has been indicted on animal trafficking charges, the United States Attorney’s ...