Researchers discovered uniquely human neuroanatomical features in a study comparing human brains to macaque and chimpanzee ...

The work involved playing spoken human words or vocalizations by monkeys to several individual macaques. After each sound was played, the macaque was shown a picture of the item mentioned by the ...

Scientists Sakumi Iki and Ikuma Adachi recently spent a lot of time watching monkeys scratch themselves. Self-scratching ...

Humans have unique brain connections affecting emotions, social intelligence, and language, unlike chimpanzees or macaques.

In a study comparing human brains to macaque and chimpanzee brains, researchers discovered uniquely human neuroanatomical features.

Now, a new study demonstrates that the macaques are anatomically able to produce all of the sounds needed for human speech, suggesting that the human brain, not the human vocal system, is responsible ...

Throughout this time, I focused on how infectious diseases move between human and macaque populations ... captive-born and wild-born macaques form the “breeding stock” of the “monkey farms ...

Forest fires, some natural and some human caused, have burned away vital macaque habitat. Changing land use resulting from human activity in and out of protected areas—such as deforestation in ...