Feb. 14 -- FRIDAY, Feb. 13 (HealthDay News) -- Many primates are capable of basic math and pre-verbal "number sense," but it's the use of language to explain abstractions that allows humans to ...

A recently concluded experiment shows that rhesus monkeys are capable of doing simple addition using numbers 1 through 25. But more interesting than that ...

Monkeys performed about as well as college students at mental addition, U.S. researchers said on Monday in a finding that suggests nonverbal math skills are not unique to humans.

News Monkeys don’t have enough time to write Shakespeare, math confirms The universe would end long before chimpanzees could randomly reproduce Shakespeare's works. By Petter Ahrnstedt and Joel Lee ...

Monkeys performed about as well as college students at mental addition, U.S. researchers said on Monday in a finding that suggests nonverbal math skills are not unique to humans.