`Chimps use passionate gestures to communicate`

Last Updated: Sunday, April 21, 2013, 11:26

Chimpanzees use a mixture of passionate gestures, vocalizations and even sign language to get their points across with each other and with humans, a new study has found.

Roosters` biological clock makes them crow

Last Updated: Tuesday, March 19, 2013, 13:29

Roosters crow at the break of dawn, not in response to the morning light, but because they are genetically programmed to do so, a new study has found.

Male lions use dense vegetation for ambush-style hunting

Last Updated: Tuesday, March 19, 2013, 13:23

Male lions have long been believed to be dependent on females when it comes to hunting.

Monkeys avoid selfish others: Study

Last Updated: Sunday, March 10, 2013, 18:26

Capuchin monkeys judge the social interactions of others and hold biases against individuals behaving selfishly, new research has found.

Monkeys synchronize movements with peers just like humans

Last Updated: Tuesday, January 29, 2013, 16:25

Primates modify their body movements to be in tune with others, just like humans do, according to Japanese researchers.

Chimpanzees possess sense of fairness akin to humans

Last Updated: Tuesday, January 15, 2013, 17:26

In a new study, researchers have shown for the first time that chimpanzees possess a sense of fairness that has previously been attributed as uniquely human.

`Being popular runs in the family for monkeys`

Last Updated: Thursday, January 10, 2013, 22:20

Scientists have found that being popular actually runs in the family - at least for monkeys!

Chimps too nurture `social traditions`

Last Updated: Wednesday, August 29, 2012, 15:47

Research on chimps never ceases to surprise us -- the latest one, for instance, says that they are not only capable of learning from one another but also use this social information to create and nurture local traditions.

Chimps selfish when it comes to food

Last Updated: Friday, August 17, 2012, 14:23

Some things cannot be explained by evolution. Chimps and bonobos don`t share an innate sense of fairness with their closest human kin.

Rare divided dolphin groups unite for first time

Last Updated: Monday, July 30, 2012, 18:17

A unique social division among two groups of bottlenose dolphins that rarely interacted has finally ended at Australia`s Moreton Bay, after they re-arranged their whole social system.

Two-toed sloths lead ‘lazy’ sex lives

Last Updated: Wednesday, July 25, 2012, 23:12

Scientists have revealed the hidden sexual habits of Hoffmann’s two-toed sloths.

Birds recognize human faces, voices

Last Updated: Monday, June 25, 2012, 14:59

Some birds are able to identify their human friends by recognizing their faces and voices, which is the key to their ability to survive, says a new study.