Sometimes, the sweetest friendships begin in silence. This cute baby monkey slowly approaches a human with curiosity—and ...

NEW YORK -- For the first time, researchers have used the cloning technique that produced Dolly the sheep to create healthy monkeys, bringing science an important step closer to being able to do the ...

An Arkansas zoo’s newest addition doesn’t have any thumbs — but it’s considered an advantage. The white-furred monkey was welcomed into a tight-knit group of Angolan colobus monkeys Oct. 30, marking ...

Placing a baby monkey in a human environment may look like fun, but it also sparks deep scientific questions. How do primates respond to new smells, textures, and tools?

Our planet is home to thousands upon thousands of species, large and small, cute and ugly, and human activity has driven many of them to the brink of extinction in just the past few decades. Today, we ...

On an island in Panama, a fad that one researcher called “viscerally disturbing” has recently taken off among a group of young male monkeys. These adolescents and juveniles have started to kidnap the ...