Humans are often thought to be the only animals capable of language. But it’s difficult to prove a negative like this because we’ll never definitively know the subjective interior monologues of other ...

Anthropologists and psychologists have studied wild monkeys' problem-solving for food to better understand how social ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- The ability to form categories is a crucial cognitive ability shared by humans and animals. It plays an important role in the way in which humans and animals behave toward objects in ...

Language distinguishes us humans; we learn it through experience and social interactions. Especially in the first year of life, human vocalizations change dramatically, becoming more and more language ...

Monkeys and apes, though both primates, exhibit distinct differences in anatomy, habitat, and evolutionary traits. Monkeys, ...