Monkeys can use symbols to add, researchers have found. Experts say the discovery could give new insight into the evolutionary origins of our ability to count. The found rhesus monkeys can not only ...

Monkeys have the ability to perform basic mathematics Geoff Gallice, Wikimedia Commons Harvard and Yale researchers have confirmed that monkeys can be trained to perform basic mathematics in a new ...

In the hope of finding out why humans find fractions so difficult, a new study attempted to test whether other species can understand them. 'Are our brains simply not built to handle quantitative part ...