Marmosets are small, adorable monkeys native to South America, but it would be unwise to underestimate them. These diminutive simians are full of surprises, living sophisticated social lives in ...

Monkeys in the wild not only love watching videos, but they also tend to copy the behaviour seen on screen, according to a new study. When scientists showed marmosets footage of a monkey opening a box ...

Finally, irrefutable evidence that not all TV is bad for your brain. In an attempt to determine whether monkeys can acquire new skills and behaviors from outside of their immediate social group, ...

On today’s episode of Wild Animal Wednesday, we are featuring our monkey friend Pip. Marmosets are small monkeys that live in forest canopies Marmosets have a very distinctive smell, they actually use ...

Every animal family should have a life of peace and quiet after a newborn arrives, but rescued animals like these marmosets ...

Scientists say the findings shine a light on how humans' ability to communicate developed MONKEYS give each other nicknames, just like humans, and the behavior is thought to afford them a competitive ...

Wild marmoset monkeys in Brazil watch a video that tells them how to open a box holding a tasty banana. Wild marmoset monkeys in Brazil watch a video that tells them how to open a box holding a tasty ...

Screening an instructional monkey movie in a forest reveals that marmosets do not only learn from family members: they also copy on-screen strangers. It is the first time such a video has been ...

Scientists studying social learning in animals have shown how easy it can be to introduce a new behavior into a group and watch it spread from individual to individual. However, not nearly as many ...

The wild marmosets living in the Brazilian forest have never seen a television show and certainly have never watched a movie in their jungle homes, until now. When scientists showed the newbies a ...