AMHERST — Researchers at a now-closed University of Massachusetts Amherst monkey laboratory that’s long been a target of animal rights activists euthanized 13 remaining marmosets in May. PETA, the ...

We consider humans to be at the apex of social cognition. But we're not the only animals that closely interact with each other. Marmosets, for example, are highly social creatures. In the wild, they ...

Marmoset monkeys use distinctive, whistle-like “phee calls” to address specific monkeys, similar to how humans use names, according to a study published Thursday in the journal Science. The discovery ...

Marmosets can communicate with one another by name and know when they are being addressed, joining a very short list of species exhibiting such behavior, and a first for non-human primates, a new ...

The common marmoset has emerged as one of the most promising nonhuman primate models in biomedical research, bridging the gap between rodent studies and human clinical applications. Its unique ...

What is it about our screens that keeps us coming back to them? Why do we continue to scroll past the point of finding what we went on our phones for in the first place? Those are questions that ...

AMHERST — A researcher whose controversial use of marmoset monkeys to unlock the secrets of Alzheimer’s, aging and women’s health drew the fury of PETA has closed her lab at the University of ...

AMHERST, Mass. (WWLP) – PETA is giving viewers a look inside a lab at the University of Massachusetts Amherst that performed experiments on marmoset monkeys. PETA has been fighting to end testing on ...

New experiments by Christian Wood and colleagues suggest that the marmoset brain area 46 (A46) in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex is key to a functional network that regulates positive and negative ...