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These monkeys turn into meat-eaters when plants are scarce. There???s something very human about it, says scientists
3+ hour, 4+ min ago (363+ words) Scientists find that capuchin monkeys hunt for meat when plants are scarce When researchers in Brazil were studying how capuchin monkeys use tools, they soon noticed that the primates were actively hunting and consuming vertebrates – so they quickly started recording…...
Chimpanzees at a Ugandan sanctuary were shown evidence that directly contradicted a choice they had just made — and rationally changed their mind in response, in what's been widely reported as the first time this kind of evidence-based reasoning has been demonstrated in a non-human animal
7+ hour, 30+ min ago (21+ words) The apes abandoned their initial choices when shown more compelling evidence, suggesting they can rationally evaluate which information deserves greater trust....
Primatologist Shirley Strum has spent more than fifty years following the same olive baboons in Kenya, and what she found was not a hierarchy of aggressive males but a society running on friendship, memory of who helped whom, and constant negotiation
5+ day, 11+ hour ago (600+ words) Shirley Strum's decades of fieldwork on olive baboons in Kenya reshaped how biologists think about primate societies, replacing a model built on male aggression with one built on long-term female relationships and something that looks, from the outside, like a…...
15,000 years ago, desert dwellers dined on snakes and lizards
6+ day, 3+ hour ago (233+ words) Published Aug 20, 2026 2:03 PM EDT A major key to their survival? They weren’t picky eaters. Based on ancient bones discovered in the Nahal Me’arot Nature Reserve on Mount Carmel, Natufian diets were heavy on lizards, snakes, and other desert reptiles. The…...
The Zurich Zoo now has some exceptionally talented climbers
1+ week, 8+ hour ago (369+ words) The bear-faced monkey is now living at the Zurich Zoo. A new species of monkey has been living at the Zurich Zoo since early August: the bear-stump monkey. These skilled climbers move gracefully through the treetops. To prevent them from…...
Prehistoric Israelis ate snakes and lizards for 3,000 years
1+ week, 6+ hour ago (327+ words) University of Haifa researchers found repeated cut marks on reptile bones, showing Natufians systematically hunted select species as permanent settlement took hold About 15,000 years ago, hunter-gatherer communities in the Levant began a gradual transformation Instead of constantly moving from place…...
Wild monkeys challenge a long-held assumption about the common ancestor of humans and chimpanzees
1+ week, 1+ day ago (1083+ words) The sooty mangabey (Cercocebus atys) is a medium-sized Old World monkey native to the coastal forests and swamps of West Africa, ranging from Senegal to Ghana. (CREDIT: Wikimedia / CC BY-SA 4.0) A monkey-like foot may not have stopped the ancestor of…...
Our Ancient Ancestors in the Middle East Loved Dining on Lizards and Snakes
1+ week, 2+ day ago (314+ words) Reptiles made up a big portion of their diet 2:01 PM CDT on August 17, 2026 The Natufian site of el-Wad Terrace in Israel was inhabited from about 15,000 to 11,700 years ago, during a time when people were starting to live more stationary lives....
Wild monkeys choose “proven” stone tools
2+ week, 7+ hour ago (579+ words) The use of stone tools is not a skill unique to humans and our extinct ancestors. Some monkeys also select suitable stones and use them to obtain food that they cannot easily open with their teeth or hands. Among them…...
Forest destruction fuelling chimpanzee attacks in Kagadi
2+ week, 11+ hour ago (837+ words) By SEGUJJA BYOMUGABI & Alex Ashaba For over three decades, residents living around Katyobona Private Forest Reserve and Kagombe Forest Reserve in Kagadi District, have lived at the centre of a growing human-wildlife conflict. Chimpanzee attacks have become a recurring threat,…...