Six Senses Kyoto ushers in a new era of luxury travel in Japan, marking the brand's highly anticipated debut and its parent ...

The vision “I want people to understand that vegan food isn’t just for a select few. It’s an inclusive eating style. Reaching ...

Research has shown that human bodily responses and cognitive shifts affect each other in both directions. We feel sorry because we cry, but also cry when feeling sorry. So, what then for our primate ...

"We feel sorry because we cry," wrote philosopher and psychologist William James, "angry because we strike, afraid because we ...

While observing a group of captive chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes), something caught the attention of Ena Onishi, who also studies animal behavior at Kyoto University. “I noticed a tendency for ...

Scientists suspect that contagious urination, a behavior they observed among a troop of apes in Japan, may play an important ...

“Apes have a wide variety of social structures and dynamics,” study researcher Shinya Yamamoto, who is studying the evolution of sociality in humans and other animals at Kyoto ...

an associate professor of primatology at Kyoto University, told Salon that this finding is significant because it is the first to ever study contagious urination in any animal, including humans.

While researching captive chimpanzees at the Kumamoto Sanctuary in Kyoto, Japan, she noticed that the animals all tended to pee at the same time. This observation reminded her of certain human ...

The behavior could exist to encourage "state-matching," where chimpanzees improve group cohesion by all being in a similar state, study co-author Ena Onishi, a wildlife researcher at Kyoto ...