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Interesting follow-up work at PRI. Someone else can provide a better summary.
Link to article: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/04/science/04obchim.html?_r=1&ref=science&oref=slogin
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Link to article: http://www.american.edu/academic.depts/cas/psych/wcalb.htm
Scientists for the first time have established that for a brief period after birth, baby monkeys imitate facial movements made by people and adult monkeys. This copycat capacity, until now observed only in human and chimpanzee infants, seems to have evolved in all these primates as a way to jump-start newborns' face-to-face communication with adults, say evolutionary biologist Pier F. Ferrari of the University of Parma in Italy and his colleagues.
Link to article: http://www.phschool.com/science/science_news/articles/copycat_monkeys.html
SPOKANE, Washington (AP) -- Washoe, a female chimpanzee said to be the first non-human to acquire human language, has died of natural causes at the research institute where she was kept.
Link to article: http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science/10/31/signing.chimp.dies.ap/index.html
People often strangely consider something more valuable once they own it.
Now scientists find this same apparently irrational behavior in chimps, a finding that could help shed light on the human mind.
For decades, researchers have puzzled over the fact that people often consider an item more valuable when it's theirs compared to how valuable they felt it was before they owned it.
Link to article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,301512,00.html
Scientists at Yale have discovered what they are calling Cognitive Dissonance in monkeys and young children. This raises the question of the validity of cognitive dissonance as a higher order process.
Link to article: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/06/science/06tier.html