The local self-described activist opera company White Snake Projects is gearing up for the open of their new season on September 22. The season kicks off with a world premiere of a unique new opera ...

In the experiment, monkeys engage with auditory stimuli—ranging from simple sounds to spoken words—by identifying and selecting the corresponding visual image on a touchscreen. During one trial, a ...

Some monkeys have astounding vocal abilities; others not so much. NPR's Jon Hamilton explains why that could provide scientific clues about the origins of human speech. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED NPR ...

Kari Bagnall–founder and executive director of Jungle Friends Primate Sanctuary, which offers permanent care to nearly 200 monkeys retired from laboratory research, who are former pets, or have been ...

You can add marmoset monkeys to the list of species that use “names.” But whether animals have anything more to say remains unknown. Do animals have names? According to the poet T.S. Eliot, cats have ...