For years, scientists at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) in Panama had whispered about the remote island where monkeys used stone tools. A botanist had witnessed the phenomenon ...

Using tools is very old monkey business. Capuchins in northeast Brazil have wielded stones to crack open cashew nuts for 600 to 700 years, researchers report July 11 in Current Biology. Unearthed ...

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Human beings used to be defined as "the tool-maker" species. But the uniqueness of this description was challenged in the 1960s when Dr. Jane Goodall discovered that chimpanzees will pick and modify ...

Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Monkeys are among the ...

"The Nutcracker" ballet may feature a mouse king, but wild bearded capuchin monkeys are the real nut-cracking kings. New research found that these animals put together their own nut-cracking devices ...

In what might seem like a scene from Planet of the Apes, a monkey has been filmed using a sharpened stone to smash through glass at a China zoo, just weeks after scientists in China declared they had ...

Researchers describe for the first time the scavenging behavior of mangabey monkeys, guinea fowls, and squirrels on energy-rich nut remnants cracked by chimpanzees and red river hogs. The team used ...