Nut-cracking monkeys don't just use tools. They use tools with skill. That's the conclusion of a new study that finds similar tool-use strategies between humans and Brazil's bearded capuchin monkeys, ...

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. Chimpanzee culture is more similar to human culture than often assumed, new research suggests. Chimpanzees don’t automatically know what ...

Groups of chimpanzees in West Africa use stone tools in distinctly different ways to crack open nuts. Researchers used 3D scans to trace wear patterns on the tools, called “hammerstones” and “anvils.” ...

Since 1979, Christophe and Hedwige Boesch have been following the chimpanzees of the Taï National Park, in the rainforest of the Ivory Coast and have shown that juveniles take several years to become ...

"The Nutcracker" ballet may feature a mouse king, but wild bearded capuchin monkeys are the real nut-cracking kings. New research found that these animals put together their own nut-cracking devices ...

Rock and anvil Wild bearded capuchin monkeys could be the second best nut crackers in the animal kingdom, suggests new research on the small primates. Humans take the number one spot, given all of our ...