Long-tailed macaques given short videos were glued to scenes of fighting—especially when the combatants were monkeys they knew—mirroring the human draw to drama and familiar faces. Low-ranking ...

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

A 2-year-old female macaque remains near the dead body of a 28-year-old male. Since she was 6 months old, she had a close relationship with him: he held, carried, and groomed her frequently. Osaka, ...

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 ...

Have you ever wondered what kind of video content would most grab the attention of monkeys? A new study of long-tailed macaques suggests the monkeys seem to like some of the same kind of content that ...

Swaths of northern India are gripped by a heatwave, hitting humans as well as wildife including monkeys. Here, monkeys sit on a roadside in India's capital New Delhi ...

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, ...

Employees at a South Carolina compound that breeds monkeys for medical research have recaptured five more animals that escaped last week from an enclosure that wasn’t fully locked. As of Monday ...

Have you ever wondered what kind of video content would most grab the attention of monkeys? Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news updates. A new study of long-tailed macaques ...