With their bright red, hairless chests and grass-grazing lifestyle, gelada monkeys are quite unusual. They are the only primate, other than humans, to primarily live on land instead of in trees, and a ...

Most people were taught a simple image: monkeys slowly turning into humans. That’s not how evolution works. Humans didn’t evolve from modern monkeys — we share a common ancestor with them, and if you ...

Humans have practiced some form of yodeling since at least the 13th century, when Marco Polo encountered Tibetan monks on his travels who used the vocal technique for long-distance communication. It’s ...

Yodelers of the world, you never stood a chance: Monkeys will always be better at yodeling than humans because they have a "cheap trick" hidden in their voice box, scientists revealed Thursday. When ...

Discover intricate mechanisms in the primates’ throats that help them rapidly shift their pitch up and down. If you matched a Swiss singer against a monkey vocalist in a yodeling contest, the ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Researchers found that New World monkeys can produce extreme yodeling-like sounds by rapidly switching between their vocal folds (for low tones) ...

For the study, the researchers worked with two adult male macaques that had previously been trained to tap in time with a metronome. Sharp Photography via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 4.0 With a ...