Apes Watch Thrillers Like We Do
A new study indicates that apes learn to anticipate coming events, a skill that could help in the wild.
Apes
The Monkeys Know What’s Up
Self-awareness isn’t what sets up apart from other animals, even if a lot of early science assumed that to be the case. Monkeys, too, demonstrate metacognition, and they may have other kinds of awareness as well.
Even Great Apes Get the Midlife Blues
A new study finds chimpanzees and orangutans in captivity appear to be the least happy in middle age.
The Gibbon of the Opera
An ability long considered uniquely human—manipulating our vocal mechanism to make loud, beautiful sounds—turns out to have been mastered long ago by apes.