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For the first time ever, scientists have improved primates' capacity for thought using an electronic brain implant, raising questions about how the human mind might be augmented in the future.

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Created as a collaboration between World Wildlife Fund (WWF), Ben Lee and Leo Burnett, "Space Chimp" carries a message about our planet, and features Ben Lee's track, "Song for the Divine Mother of the Universe".

A 5 year-old monkey in a zoo in Jerusalem has astonished keepers by walking upright.

The secret behind the origins of human language may lie in the jungle chatter of a species of monkey, a team of scientists has claimed.

It's not quite Shakespearean wordplay, but a species of African monkey can modify individual warning calls to produce novel meanings, according to new research. And because the wild monkeys tack the same sound onto the end of their calls, the authors speculate that they could resemble suffixes.

Our instinctive reaction to displays of greed and conspicuous consumption has its origins in the primate world, says Frans de Waal.

Here is a story that even a monkey would go ape about. A professor at CCNY for a physiological psych class told his class about bananas. He said the expression 'going bananas' is from the effects of bananas on the brain.

Discovery of a new breeding colony in the north of Vietnam is good news for the future of the species, which has been pushed to the brink of extinction vy habitat loss and the bushmeat and traditional medicine trades.