English actor Andy Serkis stands in the middle of a battle -- and it's not between apes and humans. It's in defense of actors doing performance capture, the technology that enabled him to crawl inside ...
Desmond Morris, the zoologist who has died aged 98, was a writer on human and animal behaviour who achieved world renown with ...
New research shows that apes have a better memory than some humans. A research team studied a group of apes as the animals were shown photos of old friends — some of which they hadn’t seen in over 25 ...
His book The Naked Ape was a controversial sensation when it was released in 1967 Desmond Morris, the zoologist, author, ...
Great apes are humans' closest relatives in the animal kingdom. As much as 98.8% of their DNA is shared, but while the number of humans living on Earth is increasing fast, other great apes are in ...
In a new research paper published in Science, cognitive scientists from Johns Hopkins University reported on a bonobo’s ability to participate in shared imaginative play that was previously considered ...
Jaymi Heimbuch is a writer and photographer specializing in wildlife conservation, technology, and food. She is the author of "The Ethiopian Wolf: Hope at the Edge of Extinction." "Quit monkeying ...
The title for this post is motivated by Thomas Nagel's classic essay "What Is It Like to Be a Bat?" Since it was published in 1974, we have learned a lot more from comparative research about the ...
Morris pursued dual passions of zoology and surrealist art, presenting TV documentaries and hosting exhibitions ...