If you’ve ever seen pictures of a monkey with a comically large nose, you’ve seen a proboscis monkey. These fascinating monkeys not only look different but act a bit differently than some of their ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Primates have larger brains than most other mammals of their size. This gives them advanced ...

What is a woolly monkey? An animal called a woolly monkey seems like it should live in the frozen north, not the sweltering Amazon Basin. But the thick coat of fur covering these large primates ...

In a 2011 Psychology Today post called " What Monkeys Can Teach Us About Human Behavior," Michael Michalko described an experiment involving five monkeys, a ladder, and a banana. Descriptions of this ...