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Chimps Can Revise Beliefs When Confronted With Conflicting Evidence. Can You?

Chimpanzees at Uganda’s Ngamba Island Sanctuary can do what was once considered an exclusively human trait: form expectations on the basis of evidence, but revise them on learning new facts.

Howler monkey ancestors began eating leaves 13 million years ago, changing course of primate history in South America

Thirteen million years ago, a group of medium-sized monkeys known for guarding their territory among the treetops with fearsome "howls" started doing something new. These monkeys, among the oldest ...

For decades there were rumors of ghost elephants in Angola. This explorer found them

A near-impenetrable plateau in Central Africa allowed elephants to hide from humans for years. The same landscape could also be their savior.
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Howler Monkeys Began Eating Leaves 13 Million Years Ago, Changing Course of Primate History in South America

• 13 million years ago, a medium-sized monkey known for guarding its territory among the treetops with a fearsome “howl” started doing something new. This monkey, one of the oldest known ancestors of ...
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Researchers in Oxford have been studying great tits for 75 years. They discovered something odd (and human-like) about their song

Recently there have been fascinating discoveries about the evolution of great tit song. Researchers at a long-running research project in Wytham Woods near Oxford found that great tits of a similar ...