Primates are mammals with sophisticated cognitive development and abilities, grasping hands and feet, and forward-facing eyes ...

Humans have evolved an exceptionally high metabolic rate, unlike any other known animal. Unlike primates that conserve energy ...

Macaque monkeys, for example ... must process a larger amount of visual "input" to the brain than many other mammals (Kirk, 2006). The popular literature often includes misleading information ...

Given all of these potential costs of group living, why do so many primates-and other mammals-bother living ... bonobos, spider monkeys, and some other ateline monkeys. Fission-fusion communities ...

Male monkeys have large throats and specialized, shell-like vocal chambers that help to turn up the volume on their distinctive call. The noise sends a clear message to other monkeys: This ...

Woolly monkeys live in social groups averaging about 50 individuals and led by an alpha male. These groups can spread out over several acres, and members keep in contact with each other through ...

Other facilities inside the zoo such ... told The Star that he came to the mammals area “because I knew there were monkeys”, ...

My adventure of a lifetime began in 2015 when I was asked to follow the tree-top lives of Costa Rica’s gravity-defying howler monkeys (Alouatta ... and these amazing mammals to the screen.

The island is home to some of the most iconic, and unusual, mammals on Earth, species like orangutans, pygmy elephants and proboscis monkeys with ... Ferns, mosses and other plants showcased ...