Just the other day I was talking to Ziggy, my Helping Hands capuchin monkey, and she looked at me quizzically and said, "Huh? Speak up!" I have been operating under the assumption that her eyesight and hearing was equal to or better than ours. What made me think that? Well, we live at the top of a

You're a primate, I'm a primate, monkeys are primates! Even before the release of my book Bringing Up Ziggy, I was studying all aspects of primates. And I'm not alone. By observing the other levels of primate order in behavior and learning, we often discover many similarities between ourselves and

There are a lot of complicated machines in the world today. Some are marvels of design and engineering. Only a few years ago, they would have seemed the stuff of science-fiction. Nothing invented today will be like the machine that I'm going to build. I'm going to build a machine. It will be extremely