Is it human nature to be competitive? Aggressive? Violent? Popular and scientific literature says yes. An anthropologist at Washington University in St. Louis who studies primate behavior says no ...

SALT LAKE CITY -- A psychology professor from Atlanta who has studied primates for years says even though they are instinctively aggressive, peacemaking has evolved in their world. Dr. Frans de ...

Rethinking Primate Aggression Researcher Frans de Waal shows that apes (and humans) get along better than we thought. Richard Conniff. August 2003. Get our newsletter! Get our newsletter!

Many primates and other animals live in social groups.In social groups, individual members coordinate their activities, communicate with one another, and interact in both affiliative (friendly ...

The bonobos had 2.8 times as many aggressive encounters and three times as many physical interactions, with higher rates of female-male and male-male aggression than chimpanzees.

Larger primates, like orangutans and chimps, reach puberty between five and ten years of age. Aggressive Displays In an attempt to establish dominance, monkeys may attack their human family members.

In some tourism hot spots, feeding the primates, known as “provisioning”, is deliberate but regulated, ensuring tourists see ...

“Primates have natural instincts that can make them aggressive and unpredictable toward humans, and nobody wins when they’re kept inside a home. These animals suffer permanent physical and mental ...

Monkeys from the Angkor Wat temple in Cambodia could be sent to breeding farms that export the primates to laboratories for use as test animals, a British animal protection organisation has warned ...

These friendships often lasted for life, and scientists say they show how male primates can use kindness and affection to socially succeed. A young Kinda baboon at Mahale Mountains Nationalpark ...