LOS ANGELES, May 13 — Twentieth Century’s action sci-fi film Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes climbed to the top of the North American box office in its opening weekend, taking in an estimated US$56.5 million (RM267.7 million), one of the year’s best results, industry watcher Exhibitor Relations reported yesterday. “This is an excellent … Read more
PARIS, Feb 16 — Rabelais believed that laughter is a human trait. But ethologists are wondering whether animals can, like humans, have a sense of humour. An American-German research team claims that great apes engage in forms of playful teasing that show similarities with joking behaviour in humans. Researchers from the University of California Los … Read more
PARIS, Dec 22 — For many people, the festive season is an opportunity to catch up with old acquaintances, sometimes going back years or even decades without face-to-face contact. And now a study published in the journal PNAS shows that we’re not the only species that can recall and recognise friends we haven’t seen for … Read more
