ICHIKAWA, Japan — Punch the baby orphan macaque is outgrowing the orangutan plushie that comforted him through early rejection from his mother and other monkeys. Images of Punch dragging around the ...

As an ideal model for studying human cognitive function and brain diseases, macaques are highly similar to humans in genetics, physiology, and brain structure. Currently, non-human primates are ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A few days old Barbary macaque baby sits in its mother's lap in Germany's largest monkey enclosure, the Affenberg near Salem. A ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Animal lovers are going bananas for Punch the baby monkey, who is learning to thrive amongst his primatial roommates. Punch, a ...

The cages are isolated deep inside the countryside of Catalonia, Spain. Groves of olive trees, criss-crossed with generations of stone walls, surround the large fenced-off enclosure. The sound of ...

A team of researchers created a new method of modeling to estimate the population of free-ranging animals and in doing so discovered that there were far fewer numbers of an Old World monkey, the ...

We may not realize it, but our eyes constantly make rapid movements—two to three per second—even when we're looking at the same spot. Yet despite these frequent eye movements, we still perceive what ...

Macaque mothers experience a short period of physical restlessness after the death of an infant, but do not show typical human signs of grief, such as lethargy and appetite loss, finds a new study by ...

Older monkeys still hang out, just with a smaller circle of intimates. Lauren Brent, CC BY-ND There are many changes that can come with old age – hair turns gray, eyesight isn’t quite what it used to ...

This is the amusing moment a curious macaque climbed onto a tourist's shoulder before appearing to groom his hair. The man ...

They lounge in hot tubs, have active sex lives, and sometimes, take joyrides. Macaques are living the life. Photographer Atsuyuki Ohshima captured a rare photo of one monkey's cowboy behavior. The ...