primate
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Wild Orangutan Observed Using First Aid on a Wound in a Scientific First
Scientists have documented a male orangutan named Rakus using a plant with known medicinal properties to help heal his facial wound.
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Only Monkeys With Opposable Thumbs Fell for This Classic Magic Trick
A team of researchers performed magic tricks for several species of monkey, and they found that the animals’ gullibility may depend on the structure of their hands.
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Extremely Uncomfortable Video Shows an Aye-Aye Picking Its Nose and Eating It
Aye-ayes, the scraggly, bug-eyed, spindly-fingered lemurs of Madagascar, have historically been demonised by humans for their unusual and unappealing anatomy. But the species is going to have to get an even better publicist, because one individual was recently caught on camera picking its nose and eating what came out.
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Bonobos Appear to Say ‘Hello’ and ‘Goodbye’ to Each Other
You don’t walk up to a coworker without some sort of greeting, and you don’t end conversations simply by turning heel. There are rules to the game of social behaviour, and now a research team studying chimpanzees and bonobos say those great apes have social habits that look a lot like what we humans call…