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Jane Goodall, without formal university training, revolutionized primatology by observing chimpanzees with patience and ...

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Both the UK and US Governments have pledged to end research using animals, but is such a goal realistic? And how might it change medical research? Talha Burki reports.

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The result is a problem we rarely discuss openly: research that looks promising in animals but collapses when applied to humans. Time is lost. Resources are wasted. Patients wait longer for answers ...

Rooks are smart enough to use tools and solve puzzles, and at one theme park they even learned to clean up human trash.

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Given that bonobos are endangered in their home of the Democratic Republic of Congo, he added, “My hope is that that kind of ...

She needed a moo-sage. Utilizing implements isn’t limited to primates and brainiac birds. A brown cow named Veronika was documented using tools with impressive skill for the first time ever, ...