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A Monkey Is On the Loose in Galveston, Texas—For the Second Time

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A Monkey Is On the Loose in Galveston, Texas—For the Second Time

Chimpanzees Bond by Watching Movies Together, Too

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Chimpanzees Bond by Watching Movies Together, Too

Scientists May Have Finally Figured Out Why We Have Eyebrows

A Neanderthal skull

Scientists May Have Finally Figured Out Why We Have Eyebrows

Great Apes Understand When Humans Are Wrong

Buttelmann et al (2017)

Great Apes Understand When Humans Are Wrong

Scientists Use Facial Recognition Software to Identify Wild Lemurs

Stacey Tecot, University of Arizona

New Ape Species Named for Skywalker Family

Fan Peng-Fei

Middle-Aged Bonobos Become Farsighted, Too

Evan Maclean via Wikimedia Commons // Public Domain

Brazilian Monkeys Make Stone Hammers That Look a Lot Like Early Human Tools

M. Haslam

Scientists Say Apes Can Predict Human Mistakes

Magnus Johansson via Wikimedia Commons // CC BY-SA 2.0

Monkeys Have Been Using Tools for 700 Years

YouTube // University of Oxford

Ring-Tailed Lemurs Use Perfume as a Weapon

Komatta via Wikimedia Commons // CC BY 3.0

9 Reasons to Love the Amazing Snow Monkey

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