Long-tailed macaques given short videos were glued to scenes of fighting—especially when the combatants were monkeys they knew—mirroring the human draw to drama and familiar faces. Low-ranking ...

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There are surprising similarities between how monkeys and humans imbibe. Jan. 21, 2011— -- The physiological and genetic similarities between humans and monkeys make the hairier primates a great ...

If you matched a Swiss singer against a monkey vocalist in a yodeling contest, the non-human primate would win handily, according to a study published in the journal Philosophical Transactions of the ...

Considered messengers of the gods, the macaques are now made to wear costumes, do backflips, and walk on stilts to please crowds.

Researchers found that New World monkeys can produce extreme yodeling-like sounds by rapidly switching between their vocal folds (for low tones) and specialized vocal membranes (for high tones), ...