A draft genome sequence of the rhesus macaque, the most widely used non-human primate in biomedical research, has just been published in Science. Its comparison with the genomes of the human and ...

Federal regulators have cited the University of Washington for allowing a research monkey to die of thirst. An inspection reportfrom the animal welfare branch of the U.S. Department of Agriculture ...

Wildlife photographer Atsuyuki Ohshima captured a rare interaction between a macaque and a deer. The photographer says the macaque took a ride on the deer just for fun. The photo is recognized in the ...

A workshop on the conservation of Lion-tailed Macaque was held at the Mundanthurai field training centre of ...

Police in Puerto Rico captured a rhesus macaque monkey on Friday that was being chased by a crowd of people at a public housing complex near the U.S. territory’s north coast. The monkey was found ...

Scientists caught a male Japanese macaque red-butted (so to speak) trying to mate with several female sika deer. In the video, a few of the deer try to shake the little monkey off, but others just ...

The human brain is a fascinating and complex organ that supports numerous sophisticated behaviors and abilities that are ...

An unexpected pair has been caught in flagrante delicto and scientists got it all on tape. Primate researcher Marie Pelé and colleagues published a surprising note in the journal Primates this ...

A monkey is on the loose after escaping from a wildlife park in the Scottish Highlands. The Japanese macaque found a way out of its enclosure at Highland Wildlife Park near Kingussie on Sunday morning ...

The long legal battle over selfies taken by a monkey in Indonesia is over. A federal appeals court ruled Naruto, the crested macaque who snapped the famous "monkey selfie," does not have "the ...