Scientists call this phenomenon emotional mimicry. Biologists and psychologists consider this automatic matching of another’s ...

Long-tailed macaques given short videos were glued to scenes of fighting—especially when the combatants were monkeys they knew—mirroring the human draw to drama and familiar faces. Low-ranking ...

A colony of African vervets in Dania Beach raises big questions about how humans can and should manage nonnative species.

If you matched a Swiss singer against a monkey vocalist in a yodeling contest, the non-human primate would win handily, according to a study published in the journal Philosophical Transactions of the ...