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Sometime between three million and two million years ago, perhaps on a primeval sa

Time and again humans have domesticated wild animals, producing tame individuals with softer appearances and more docile temperaments, such as dogs and guinea pigs. But a new study suggests that one of our primate cousins--the African ape known as the bonobo --did something similar without human involvement.

We "naked apes" aren't as hirsute as our primate cousins. We still have an ape-like density of hair follicles--but we sprout out peach fuzz, instead of a thick coat. Those downy hairs may be more than an evolutionary leftover, though

Red colobus monkeys in Uganda's Kibale National Park are being hunted to extinction--by chimpanzees. According to a study published May 9 in the American Journal of Primatology , this is the first documented case of a nonhuman primate significantly overhunting another primate species