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 ...

A groundbreaking study has traced the 66-million-year evolutionary history of primates and overturned conventional thought that our ancestors originally inhabited warm tropical forests. Using advanced ...

In truth, it is not a paradox. The animals involved all seem perfectly eager participants in heterosexual behaviour, as well, so their reproduction is not compromised. It is, though, a puzzle—for ...

Abigail Morris first visited the Peruvian Amazon when she was 6 years old. Now, as a Ph.D. candidate in the Animal Behavior ...

Same-sex behavior is widespread in primates and may help strengthen social bonds and improve survival under challenging ...

Between Nigeria’s Cross River and Cameroon’s Sanaga River lies one of West Africa’s largest remaining blocks of intact ...

The fact that primates other than humans engage in homosexual behavior is well-documented. A recent study in Nature Ecology & ...