Primal Fear: Can Monkeys Help Unlock the Secrets of Trauma?
On Valentine’s Day, 2018, five months after Hurricane Maria made landfall, Daniel Phillips stood at the edge of a denuded More
Animal Research
Why humans may have more in common with chimps than we thought
What can humans learn about ourselves from studying chimpanzees? Primatologist Frans de Waal has spent almost three decades studying the More
Why Anthropomorphism Is Not a Scientific Sin
APS Fellow Frans B. M. de Waal says that parallels in animal and human behaviors can deepen our understanding of our own emotions. More
Frans de Waal Embraces Animal Emotions in ‘Mama’s Last Hug’
The two old friends hadn’t seen each other lately. Now one of them was on her deathbed, crippled with arthritis More
What An Insect Can Teach Us About Adapting To Stress
What if we told you that you could learn a lot about handling adversity from the life of a bug More
A Tiny Reef Fish Can Recognize Itself in a Mirror
It’s something most of us do every morning without a second thought. We wake up, stumble to the bathroom and More