Monkey see, monkey do sums up more than human behaviour, according to researchers. They have overturned the long-held belief that learning through imitation is restricted to people - by working with ...

Monkeys at Colchester Zoo have invented their own sign language. Milly the mandrill covered her face with her hand, a gesture staff feared meant she had bad sight before realising she was saying ...

Monkeys pay more attention to females than to males, according to research. Scientists studying wild vervet monkeys in South Africa found that the animals were better able to learn a task when it was ...

What would you do if you saw yourself in a mirror for the first time? When, after weeks of training, rhesus monkeys learned the true identity of their reflections, one of the first things they did was ...