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More information: Marie Padberg et al, Social attention increases object memory in adult but not younger great apes, Animal Behaviour (2025). DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2025.123081 Provided by Max ...

This study is the first to explore social memory development in non-human great apes. It is published in the journal Animal Behaviour. Primates, including both monkeys and great apes, live in ...