From a quick swipe of a banana to elaborate “ransoms” of smartphones, monkey shenanigans have earned these adorable animals a ...

Roman military officers kept monkeys as companions and even gave them their own pets - Remains in an ancient cemetery provide ...

Monkeys have been test subjects for infectious diseases for decades. However, that will soon come to an end, according to the ...

While archaeologists have previously documented a few similar examples of ancient Roman pet monkeys elsewhere, they ...

The unexpected rhythm of macaque monkey skills raise fresh questions about where our own sense of beat comes from.

Wild monkeys that live in large groups alongside human settlements are the disease "superspreaders" of the animal kingdom, according to a study. Researchers have mapped how infectious diseases spread ...

Mother monkeys permanently separated from their newborns sometimes find comfort in plush toys; this recent finding from Harvard experiments has set off intense controversy among scientists and ...

Together, these five monkeys demonstrate the entire arc of IAR Costa Rica’s life-saving work. Their release also comes at a time when IAR Costa Rica has been awarded GFAS Accreditation, a global ...

The 43 rhesus macaque monkeys that escaped a South Carolina medical lab this week are among the most studied animals on the planet. And for more than a century, they have held a mirror to humanity, ...

A multi-state federal investigation into illegal animal trafficking led to the seizure of eight primates. The suspect at the center of the investigation has previously been convicted on similar animal ...

FLORENCE — Which exotic animals would you feel comfortable living next door to? That’s the question Florence City Council is wrestling with after the world’s most venomous snake, an inland taipan ...

Perhaps more than any other religion, Hinduism treats animals as sacred. Learn about the divinity of cows, elephants, and monkeys.