When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. At first glance, monkeys like this baboon (left) may seem similar to apes like this gorilla ...

The more we study animals, the less special we seem. Baboons can distinguish between written words and gibberish. Monkeys seem to be able to do multiplication. Apes can delay instant gratification ...

In French research, at least two baboons kept memorizing so many pictures -- several thousand -- that after three years researchers ran out of time before the baboons reached their limit. Researcher ...

At some point in our evolution, humans gave up walking on four limbs, yet all of our ape cousins continue sauntering on four, resorting occasionally to two. Peter Aerts from the University of Antwerp, ...

Great apes, such as the gorilla and the chimpanzee, are the primates that are genetically the closest to humans. Yet new research suggests that if we want to find out more about how the human gut ...