Rhesus monkeys typically don’t check themselves out in a mirror — unless they’re wearing funky acrylic forehead blocks attached to hair-thin electrodes implanted in their brains. Given that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A rhesus monkey puts its hand near a laser light on its face as it looks at itself in the mirror, during experiments that showed ...

The line between humans and animals just got a lot thinner. As much as people love their pets, we rarely consider them our equals. Even animals like chimps or monkeys, which are our closer ...

Over twenty years ago, a team of scientists, led by Giacomo Rizzolatti at the University of Parma, discovered special brain cells, called mirror neurons, in monkeys. These cells appeared to be ...

A new study shows for the first time that monkeys can recall and reproduce simple shapes from memory. Identifying this recall ability is critical to our understanding of the evolution of memory and ...

Like people, great apes including chimpanzees, orangutans, bonobos and gorillas have shown they recognize themselves in a mirror. But monkeys? Not so much. Monkeys have consistently failed to display ...

Looking in the mirror and recognizing oneself was long thought to be an ability reserved for humans. Recently, however, researchers have found that other apes, such as chimpanzees and gorillas, seem ...