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A new open access article published in the journal Animal Behaviour , has demonstrated that playback of affiliative calls can initiate a temporary culture of high affiliation in marmosets.
A new study in Scientific Reports has shown that chimpanzees outperform humans in their ability to utilize game theory– a form of mathematics that deals with determining optimal strategies when faced with competitive situations.
A new study published in the American Journal of Primatology has shown that hormonal responses in Japanese macaques can be related to their adaptation to stressful conditions.
A recent study of wild siamangs in Way Canguk (Sumatra, Indonesia), by CICASP's Dr. Luca Morino, shows that males in multimale groups mate less frequently and for shorter average durations than males in one-male groups. This is thought to be a way to minimize the risk of...
A new study published in Marine Ecology Progress Series has shown that foraging sequences of the Adelie penguin - a marine top predator and indicator species in Antarctic ecosystems - change during stressful conditions.
A new study published in the journal PLoS ONE has important implications for how humans develop space-based representations of “orders” through a simple but well-controlled experiment on our evolutionary closest relatives, chimpanzees.