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Study records unusual behavior in monkeys playing touchscreen games
That pattern aligns with what researchers call the Goldilocks principle.
Monkeys played a touchscreen game for nearly 100 rounds without rewards, highlighting the powerful role of curiosity in ...
Male capuchin monkeys on a Panamanian island were documented carrying around infant howler monkeys for no clearly discernible reason. By Elizabeth Landau Capuchin monkeys don’t generally hang out with ...
The intrinsic information-seeking impulse we call curiosity is independent of extrinsic rewards, such as food or mating ...
Researchers have developed 'Dynamic Prospect Theory,' which integrates the most popular model in behavioral economics -- prospect theory and a well-established model from neuroscience -- reinforcement ...
Part I. Introduction. 1. Why is it important to continue studying the behavioral ecology and conservation management of howler monkeys? / Martín M. Kowalewski, Paul A. Garber, Liliana Cortés-Ortiz, ...
A recent study out of Bangladesh confirms a concerning trend in monkey behavior, potentially leading to the extinction of two species of langurs: Phayre's langurs and capped langurs. Mongabay reported ...
Source: Wald1siedel, via Wikimedia Commons. Distributed under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Across the animal kingdom, numerous species engage in a behavior known as anointing. This is where animals rub ...
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Golden in the snow: China's most spectacular monkey up close (China series: Part 3)
A king surveys his snowy realm. The dark, monotonously colored forest background makes the colorful monkey stand out ...
In a 2011 Psychology Today post called " What Monkeys Can Teach Us About Human Behavior," Michael Michalko described an experiment involving five monkeys, a ladder, and a banana. Descriptions of this ...
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