The intrinsic information-seeking impulse we call curiosity is independent of extrinsic rewards, such as food or mating ...

The macaque, now 9 months old, has been attracting tens of thousands of visitors to a small Japanese zoo. He ignores the ...

Monkeys played a touchscreen game for nearly 100 rounds without rewards, highlighting the powerful role of curiosity in ...

Researchers said the monkeys have been observed eating soil more frequently, a behavior they said may help the macaques avoid ...

Macaque monkeys in two separate Japanese prefectures have taken the primatology world by storm after they were spotted attempting to mate with Sika deer. The phenomenon, originally observed in a ...

Ichikawa City Zoo staff utilized a specific replacement object to satisfy the instinctual clinging requirement. Due to an unfortunate situation with a happy ending, Punch the baby macaque monkey has ...

Macaques ingest clumps of clay to help their digestive system process the sugars, fats, and dairy products from human snacks ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Seven month-old Punch, a macaque monkey who was abandoned by his mother shortly after birth, sits with a stuffed orangutan toy at ...

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