A new study found that monkeys spent extended time playing a touchscreen game even when no food reward was offered, a surprising result that has researchers taking a closer look at curiosity itself.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new study has found that chimpanzees may be far from shy bathroomgoers. A team of researchers spent more than 600 hours studying ...

With age, the incidence of stress-related pathologies, in the etiopathogenesis of which endocrine dysfunctions play an important role ...

Many animal species that live in groups are known to adjust their behavior to strengthen their social bonds or increase their coordination with others around them. For instance, humans and some other ...

And we need to start paying attention because all the weather predictions are saying that we’re going to get more unpredictability and more climate extremes.” Odd Jacobson, a behavioral ecologist at ...

Part I. Introduction. 1. Why is it important to continue studying the behavioral ecology and conservation management of howler monkeys? / Martín M. Kowalewski, Paul A. Garber, Liliana Cortés-Ortiz, ...

This video captures a gentle encounter between a young monkey and a person in a natural outdoor setting. Standing on a rocky surface, the baby monkey cautiously approaches while observing a nearby ...

A monkey sits quietly on a large rock while holding a small packaged snack in front of it. Before eating, it carefully looks ...