Collaborative workshop with neuroscientists from Japan and Germany to discuss decision making, cognition, and neurobiology across primate species.

Organoids provide insights into brain development with unprecedented precision

Markus Hoffmann and Stefan Pöhlmann of the Infection Biology Unit at the German Primate Center are among the Highly Cited Researchers 2025

A study by the German Primate Center shows parallels between Guinea baboons and human hunter-gatherer societies

How research into movement planning in the brain is helping to advance the development of neuroprostheses

A study conducted by the German Primate Center (DPZ) – Leibniz Institute for Primate Research – investigated how the risk-taking behavior of Barbary macaques (Macaca sylvanus) changes over the course of their lives (Animal Behaviour).

New name, new look, and lots of exciting research highlights

The diversity of lemurs did not come about through a one-off “explosion in the number of species”, also known as radiation, but dynamically through several radiations and hybridization.

Guinea baboons choose their sleeping place independently of predators and parasites

New study shows: Power relations between males and females in primates are more complex than thought