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 ...

This case is bananas. Continuing a long-running legal scuffle, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is filing an appeal on behalf of Naruto, an Indonesian crested macaque who snapped a ...

The newborn Japanese macaque, offspring of 12-year-old Usagi and 10-year-old Kota, made its public debut hours after birth on Macaque Island. An addition to the Milwaukee County Zoo's macaque family ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Scientists for the first time have established that for a brief period after birth, baby monkeys imitate facial movements made by people and adult monkeys. This copycat capacity, until now observed ...