It has also some beautiful primates.

There are two orders of magnitude more spiders than primates.

Primates are extremely curious and humans most of all.

Primates, on the other hand, we use our mouths more.

Cetaceans and primates have also an autobiographical self to a certain degree.

Humans appear to be the only primates that I know of that are afraid of heights.

It's about opening up. And this is true across the animal kingdom. It's not just limited to primates.

That's especially good that mammals and primates like fruits and bright plants, because you eat the fruit and you thereby spread the seed.

We have got, under our skin, a layer of fat, all over nothing in the least like that in any other primate.

If we look across many, many different species of animals, not just us primates, but also including other mammals, birds, even marsupials like kangaroos and wombats, it turns out that there's a relationship between how long a childhood a species has and how big their brains are compared to their bodies and how smart and flexible they are.

To put that number into perspective, here's a graph comparing the 40,000 species of spiders to the 400 species of primates.

You know, she's a smart, very cut creature, a primate as well, but she lacks all the stuff we think might be messing us up.

Even primates display physiological and behavioral signs after losses that are unmistakably similar to sadness among humans. There is little doubt that evolution designed people to have a propensity to become sad after such situations.

Research by primatologists Sarah Brosnan and Frans de Waal at Emory University has shown that monkeys also have what look like moral values. When two monkeys work for food, a fair split is expected.

Essentially, we are pattern seeking primates.

It's the only possible explanation of why humans, if they're very unlucky, can become grossly obese, in a way that would be totally impossible for any other primate, physically impossible.

Primates emerge from jungles, as tarsiers first, becoming lemurs not much later.

Do you think animals have souls?

Do you think animals have a soul?

From left to right, we've got Homo erectus, Homo habilis, and Australopithecus now called Paranthropus boisei, the robust australopithecine. Three extinct species, same place, same time.

You know, in primates, there is this phenomenon called sexual dimorphism, which simply means males are larger than females and males have larger teeth than the females.

Humans and muskrats and giraffes and birds and so on, are the red line goes up. That's the humans and livestock and pets portion.

So let's start with calls of a nonhuman primate.

So, this area is about eight times the size in higher especially in humans as in lower primates.

And as I said, we don't know how hard that is. It might be after all, most other mammals live half as long as the chimpanzee, so we're sort of three and a half or four times, have four times the longevity of most mammals. And in the case of the primates, we have almost the same genes. We only differ from chimpanzees, in the present state of knowledge, which is absolute hogwash, maybe by just a few hundred genes.

Well some animals, like the chicken, seem to be beautifully suited to doing just one thing very well.

The varied vegetation reflecting an equally varied climate is also home to a significant and very diverse range of fauna mammals (gorillas, elephants, rhinoceroses, hippopotami, giraffes, antelopes), reptiles (vipers, crocodiles and caimans) and all kinds of birds.

He was talking about this amazing, three year old Australopithecine child, Selam.

All other primates, when they're scared, they run up a tree, where they feel safe.

But it shrunk to 60 percent of primate gut of my body mass.

These are mammal like reptiles.

This is an unnamed species of copepod. A copepod is a crustacean.

the idea is he's got six different species of animals, as well as some plants, growing in this very elaborate symbiotic arrangement.

So we know that in primate hierarchies, if an alpha needs to take over, if an individual needs to take over an alpha role sort of suddenly, within a few days, that individual's testosterone has gone up significantly and his cortisol has dropped significantly.

And I'm talking specifically about synanthropic species, which are species that have adapted specifically for human ecologies, species like rats and cockroaches and crows.

Without flowering plants, there would be no clever, fruit eating primates giving TED Talks.

The only creatures that have got conscious control of their breath are the diving animals and the diving birds.

For most animals, males are the performers. Male birds, for example, often have brightly colored plumage or intricate appendages, such as the Australian lyrebird s long tail.

And eventually she was moving it and moving it, and eventually stopped moving her right arm and, staring at the screen, could move the prosthetic arm in the other room only with her brainwaves which means that monkey became the first primate in the history of the world to have three independent functional arms.

Given the obvious benefits of having access to more territory in which to gather and hunt, outsiders particularly those who bear characteristics that mark them as genetically distant were treated as foes. In this sense, the notion of us versus them has been fundamental to human evolution, and it continues to shape our interactions.

Why? Because the soul, the human soul, embodies a piece of the divine breath, a piece of the divine soul.

What they're getting at is that on the back of this crab the foodstuff here is this very strange bacteria that lives on the backs of all these animals.

Is this a good evolutionary adaptation, or is it going to lead us to being the shortest lived hominid species on planet Earth?

These are to compensate for the loss of ecological services from the time of the damage until full restoration of the services as a result of remediation.

MELBOURNE Two new movies released this month one a science fiction blockbuster, the other a revealing documentary raise the issue of our relations with our closest non human relatives, the great apes. Both dramatize insights and lessons that should not be ignored.