Life
Orangutans and other great apes under threat from covid-19 pandemic
Many great ape species are already in a precarious situation because of their dwindling numbers. Now they may also be at risk from the coronavirus pandemic
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Life
Monkeys hiding on a plateau in the Amazon turn out to be new species
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Health
How a Ugandan vet saved hundreds of gorillas by treating human disease
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Huge mysterious ape Gigantopithecus was a distant cousin of orangutans
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Humans
Did apes first walk upright on two legs in Europe, not Africa?
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Life
Some monkeys reuse their stone tools but others just chuck them away
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Humans
Mystery of why humans walk upright may be explained by surprise fossil
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Life
Whales evolved large brains in the same way that we did
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Humans
We may have a basic form of sign language in common with chimpanzees
People seem to be able to understand gestures made by chimpanzees, suggesting the signals may be remnants of a basic sign language used by our last common ancestors
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Life
Wild mountain gorillas enjoy playing in water just like we do
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Technology
AI facial recognition software now works for wild chimpanzees too
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Don鈥檛 go bananas: Should we be cutting down on the fruit we eat?
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Life
Macaques really can use logical reasoning to solve puzzles
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