When you think of wildlife safaris in India, chances are tigers immediately come to mind. But what if we told you about some ...

MONKEYS are the undisputed kings of yodelling, research shows. They were found to have a frequency range five times greater ...

The nearest village is an hour’s walk, and the only sounds are the chirping of birds, the rustling of leaves – and the whoosh ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

I’m overwriting. I’ve just reread Upton Sinclair’s “The Jungle,” and its prose, lurid and yet somehow plodding, has worked its way into my mind. But what an important novel it was ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Genomic evidence suggests that the capacity for human language emerged at least 135,000 years ago, coinciding with the initial geographic divergence of Homo ...

and the steady rhythm of the jungle was already in full swing—birds calling, leaves rustling, insects buzzing and the occasional chatter of primates. As an expert on Borneo elephants ...