NEW YORK -- For the first time, researchers have used the cloning technique that produced Dolly the sheep to create healthy monkeys, bringing science an important step closer to being able to do the ...

Deep in the rainforest, the monkeys are yodeling. Their wild calls echo across the foliage, sending signals of sex and survival. For decades, scientists have studied why they make these sounds, but ...

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There are surprising similarities between how monkeys and humans imbibe. Jan. 21, 2011— -- The physiological and genetic similarities between humans and monkeys make the hairier primates a great ...

The 43 rhesus macaque monkeys that escaped a South Carolina medical lab this week are among the most studied animals on the planet. And for more than a century, they have held a mirror to humanity, ...

If you lose your sight, you make up for it with other senses. If one arm is amputated, you learn to do twice as many things ...

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