A new study comparing 59 species of primates linked same-sex sexual behavior to scarce resources and more predators in socially complex species. The findings show diverse sexual behaviors are common — ...

Japanese macaques display behaviors that feel strikingly familiar to human observers. This video examines how social structure, emotional expression, and learned behavior blur the perceived boundary ...

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Japanese macaques, colloquially referred to as snow monkeys, famously soak in steaming hot springs during winter. It's easy to see that this helps them stay warm in cold temperatures, but a team of ...

We're all familiar with Pavlovian conditioning, in which a reward-anticipatory behavior follows a reward-predicting stimulus. Perhaps you experience it yourself when passing a cafe or restaurant and ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. The 43 rhesus macaque monkeys that escaped a ...