PETA has identified a surge in monkey smuggling cases across Southeast Asia, where traffickers steal monkeys from forests and ...

AZUMINO, Nagano Prefecture--In the foothills of Japan’s Northern Alps, people are chasing monkeys.

Why do humans keep pets? A new international study suggests that some of the behavioral foundations of human-animal companionship may have much deeper evolutionary roots than previously thought.

A groundbreaking study has revealed the presence of Hepatitis B virus in wild New World primates in the Amazon. This alarming ...

Ground-breaking new research suggests monkeys and apes are even more similar to humans than previously thought, with the furry folk even keeping other animals as pets. Researchers at the University of ...

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There was a time when people thought it amusing to watch an animal like a primate control the actions of a dog. This column mentioned dog racing last week. But a little more than 100 years ago, ...

Researchers observed bearded capuchins in Brazil eating birds (shown here), lizards, rodents, opossums, snakes and other small vertebrates. Luciano Candisani, CC-BY 4.0 The bearded capuchin monkeys of ...

Our geometric intuition, long considered something that sets us apart, seems to be shared with other primates. By K. R. Callaway You (probably) won’t find a monkey in a geometry class, but it looks ...