Brazilian capuchins have been monkeying around with stone tools for hundreds of years, Oxford University scientists have discovered. The primates have been observed using stones as hammers and anvils ...

Monkey Tool Use use tools to help them procure food. Researchers writing in the current issue of Science report having spotted capuchins in the Caatinga forests of northeastern Brazil regularly using ...

HENAN PROVINCE, China — A capuchin monkey at a zoo in Central China is a little too smart for its own good. A video released by the Zhengzhou Zoo in Henan Province shows the animal using a rock to ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Primates have larger brains than most other mammals of their size. This gives them advanced ...

We humans are nothing if not inventive. Our innovations have come to underpin virtually every facet of daily life—from what we eat to how we communicate. This ingenuity is intrinsically linked to both ...

Primates are a group of mammals that includes humans and our close relatives, such as apes, monkeys and lemurs. Monkeys, such as capuchins and macaques; prosimians, like lemurs and tarsiers; lesser ...