Source: Catherine Poh Huay Tan, via Flickr. Distributed under a CC BY 2.0 license. Primates, humans included, are known for their complex societies and sophisticated social cognition. Navigating ...

Why be social? And, why not be? What are the costs and benefits of sociality, and what types of sociality characterize nonhuman primates? Given all of these potential costs of group living, why do so ...

Spotted hyena clans flip the script on mammalian power: here, dominance is inherited, alliances matter most and females rule every level of society.

This project investigates how nighttime foraging ecology shapes social structure in a focal nocturnal primate species. Using night follows, behavioral observations, and mapping of feeding sites, we ...

Geoffroys spider monkeys in Mexico do not rely solely on instinct for food. They share information through constantly ...

AMHERST, Mass. — An international team of scientists led by a recent doctoral graduate from the University of Massachusetts Amherst sheds new light on the social behaviors of Kinda baboons (Papio ...

Primates display a wide range of behaviors that can appear extreme but are rooted in survival and social competition. Some ...