Uploaded October 2017 | Updated September 2026, 15 hours ago

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Humans notoriously see faces everywhere we go, even when there are none. It's called pareidolia, and new research shows that monkeys seem to experience the same thing.

Read the full story here: discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/even-monkeys-see-faces-in-things

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