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 ...

Gorillas rely heavily on body gestures to communicate emotions, establish dominance, and maintain social harmony within their ...

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 ...

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 ...

A new Arizona State University-led study reveals that female baboons and related monkeys play a key role in shaping their social networks, influencing whether groups are more cliquish or cohesive.

Primate social organization is more flexible than previously assumed. According to a new study, the first primates probably lived in pairs, while only around 15 percent of individuals were solitary.

Like people, nonhuman primates live in groups that vary in size and shape depending on the species. Some primate groups are small and simple; others are large and more layered. Over the decades, ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Asian colobines, also known as leaf-eating monkeys, have been on the planet for about 10 million years. Their ancestors crossed land bridges, dispersed across continents, survived ...

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 ...