The study suggests that the monkeys did not distinguish between learnable and unlearnable tasks, treating the latter as they had the former—a tendency that the study’s authors say resembles how humans ...

According to their findings, the modified monkeys did better on a memory test involving colors and block pictures, and their brains also took longer to develop—as those of human children do.

We all realize that monkeys are not on par with human thinking. Those wondrous creatures can be endearing and do a surprising amount of thinking, no doubt about it. They just don’t rise to the ...

“I think you feel more for an animal suffering than you do a human,” Gracey tells me, with characteristically Australian enthusiasm. “There’s nothing glamorous about a monkey doing cocain ...