This trick required the scientists to put food in one hand, and present that hand to each individual monkey. Clayton (a professor of Comparative Cognition at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of the Royal Society) joined Pellegrin and other ...

When performing magic tricks, it's important to pick your audience carefully. And it would be wise not to attempt sleight-of-hand with a group of marmosets, according to a new study. Researchers have discovered deceptive tricks only fool monkeys who have ...

A Humboldt's squirrel monkey is fooled by the "French Drop" magic trick. Credit: E. Garcia-Pelegrin et al., 2023 The key to a successful sleight-of-hand magic trick is how well a magician manipulates the audience's perception, especially of manual ...

An illusion involving a hidden thumb confounds capuchin and squirrel monkeys for the same reason it does humans -- it misdirects expected outcomes of actions they can carry out. However, marmosets have five equidistant digits, and were rarely fooled by the ...

Franz Wagner had 28 points and nine rebounds, Desmond Bane added 22 points and eight assists, and the Orlando Magic handed the New York Knicks their first loss of the season at Madison Square Garden with a 124-107 victory Wednesday night. Anthony Black ...

A few years ago, I wrote a puzzle column for parents called Parent's Corner. The idea was for parents to teach their kids some math and logic through puzzles. One of those puzzles, called "Polish Hand Magic," was a method used by Polish schoolchildren to ...