Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Japanese macaques at Joshin-etsu National Park in Japan. (Peter Adams / Getty Images file) Humans are far from the only primates ...

Humans aren’t the only creatures engaging in same-sex sexual activities. To date, scientists have documented around 1,500 species, including whales, birds and fish, engaging in such behavior. Now, an ...

A recent article in the New York Times caught my eye concerning the strong role of genes in determining the social behavior of nonhuman primates. A team of researchers at the University of Oxford ...

Biologists tend to look at the animal kingdom and try to categorize things in an organized fashion. But nature has a way of defying our neat little categories. Take something as common as same-sex ...

Prologue -- Part one. Social behavior. Primate diversity -- Barbary macaques : model monkeys -- Primate social systems -- Chacma baboons : into the wild -- Guinea baboons : uncharted territories -- ...

A new review was published in Volume 18 of Aging on June 11, 2026, titled "Age-related dysfunctions of the neuroendocrine axes in nonhuman primates with depression-like and anxious behavior." The ...

Examples for positive, neutral and negative expressions. Copyright held by the authors. Humans perceive emotional expressions displayed by non-human primates and ...

A new study, published today by the scientific journal Nature Ecology & Evolution, provides an interesting overview of the relative frequency in which same-sex behaviors have been observed in an ...

Suggested Citation: "Session 3: Nutrient Requirements of Nonhuman Primates." National Research Council. 2003. International Perspectives: The Future of Nonhuman Primate Resources: Proceedings of the ...