The monkeys without opposable thumbs did not fall for the assumption and were aware of the whereabouts of the treats a magician tried to “make disappear.” But, the monkeys with opposable ...

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 ...

Intriguingly, marmosets are also the only tested monkeys that lack opposable thumbs. The scientists hypothesize that this detail is related to why the magic tricks did not work on them.

Researchers have discovered deceptive tricks only fool monkeys who have opposable thumbs, as a magician needs to have similar anatomy to their audience. So while capuchins and squirrel monkeys end ...

The study, carried out at the University of Cambridge's Comparative Cognition Lab, found that monkeys lacking opposable thumbs did not fall for the assumption -- staying wise to the whereabouts of ...

Monkeys can be hoodwinked by sleight-of-hand magic tricks if they have opposable thumbs, scientists have found. Scientists at Cambridge University believe the experiments demonstrate that the ...

A sleight-of-hand magic trick which often catches humans out only fools monkeys with opposable thumbs – a trait shared with humans, new research suggests. Scientists performed a famous magic ...

Specifically, the team found that the monkeys were more likely to be duped by the sleight of hand if they had opposable thumbs. The research is published today in Cell Biology. Read more These ...

A sleight-of-hand magic trick which often catches humans out only fools monkeys with opposable thumbs – a trait shared with humans, new research suggests. Scientists performed a famous magic trick for ...