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El Proyecto Mirikiná es un proyecto de campo de varias décadas enfocado en los monos mirikinás (Aotus azarae) en las selvas de Formosa, Argentina. Ahora puedes explorarlo en Minecraft.

Have you ever wondered what it’s like at a primate field research site? Now you can explore one in Minecraft!

Evan Cunningham is a PhD candidate at Emory University who studies wild capuchin monkeys in Costa Rica. His research focuses the hormonal mechanisms behind social behaviors and learning.

Recent Leakey Foundation-supported research shows how a Denisovan gene variant involved in the production of mucus helped people adapt and survive in new environments.

New research investigated kissing in monkeys and apes, including modern humans and Neanderthals, to reconstruct its evolutionary history for the first time.

Majda El Bouhamdi is a Moroccan primatologist and conservation scientist studying Barbary macaques in Morocco’s Rif Mountains.

Washington National Cathedral will host a memorial service for world-renowned ethologist and conservationist Dr. Jane Goodall, DBE, on November 12, 2025, at 11:00 am Eastern Time. The service will be available via livestream for the public to watch online.

Young chimpanzees are innovative, inventing new tools and improving on ones that adults use. New research suggests that creative experimentation could make children important drivers of cultural evolution.

Stone tools from Georgia’s Dzudzuana Cave reveal the earliest evidence of indigo processing, dating back 34,000 years to the Ice Age.

Alejandra Pascual-Garrido is a scientist who, inspired by Jane Goodall, studied chimpanzees at Gombe National Park. Read her moving tribute.