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Compared with humans, chimp infants appear to act as daredevils earlier in life, according to a paper published today in ...

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The riskiest behavior in humans peaks in adolescence. Researchers from the University of Michigan and James Madison ...

Scientists suspect that contagious urination, a behavior they observed among a troop of apes in Japan, may play an important role in primate social life. By Annie Roth Ena Onishi, a doctoral student ...