With their ability to use tools, remember faces and even learn how to communicate with humans through sign language, nonhuman ...

Monkeys display the same, basic understanding of geometry seen in human preschoolers, according to new research from Carnegie Mellon University's Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences.

Summary: A research team demonstrated that non-human primates (olive baboons and Rhesus macaques), young human children, and ...

The study provides the first evidence that baboons and macaques share the same geometric intuitions present in young humans.

Childbirth can be extremely challenging for humans – but some other primates may have it even worse. A comprehensive analysis of primate anatomy concludes that many species must squeeze large-headed ...

American Sign Language, or ASL, is a complete, natural language that has the same linguistic properties as spoken languages, ...

Doug Wintemute is a staff writer for Forbes Advisor. After completing his master’s in English at York University, he began his writing career in the higher education space. Over the past decade, Doug ...

There is much to like in Janet Jones's look at horse "language" and the equine mind, A Horse's World, but beware unexpected ...

If you watch nature documentaries, they often paint the hyena as the ultimate villain of the animal kingdom, a cowardly, ...

In popular films and stories, hyenas are usually portrayed simply as hunters and scavengers, but in reality, they actually spend a great deal of time ...