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Of course monkeys don’t speak to each other in elaborate paragraphs, but they do communicate by vocalizing. Researchers turn to monkeys in an effort to understand some of the most basic foundations of ...

If you could change the way a monkey or an ape's brain is wired, that animal would be capable of producing perfectly intelligible speech. That's the conclusion of a study that closely tracked the ...

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What sounds like music to us may just be noise to a macaque monkey. That's because a monkey's brain appears to lack critical circuits that are highly sensitive to a sound's pitch, a team reported ...

Monkeys and apes, though both primates, exhibit distinct differences in anatomy, habitat, and evolutionary traits. Monkeys, with their tails and smaller size, thrive globally, while apes, tailless and ...