As members of the exclusive primate family, we humans know just how special this mammalian order is. Even our most distant ...

The human environment is a very social one. Family, friends, colleagues, strangers—they all provide a continuous stream of ...

In addition to having adaptations for enhanced depth perception and visual acuity, primates also have large visual regions of the brain (Allman, 1999; Kaas, 2005, 2008). Macaque monkeys ...

(CN) — The retinal cells from a human cadaver’s eye were successfully transplanted into the eyes of euthanized primates, an important step in perfecting surgical interventions to fight blindness, ...

Also known as nagapies, which means “night monkeys” in Afrikaans, all galagos are considered nocturnal. Along with their big eyes, which help them see in low light, bush babies are adapted to ...