In November, news outlets worldwide covered the story of 43 monkeys escaping from a South Carolina nonhuman primate facility.

A baby emperor tamarin monkey born at a Lanarkshire theme park has been named Tito after a public appeal. The new arrival, ...

Two different groups of macaques have been spotted in Japan mounting sika deer. The behavior could be part of a shared “culture” between the animals.

White-faced capuchin monkeys in Costa Rica displayed a surprising ability to withstand extreme drought conditions.

Researchers used the environmental circumstances and fecal samples collected from the six years prior to the severe El Ni o drought in Costa Rica to study the relationship between the endocrinologic ...

Woolly monkeys were once considered four species: the gray, Columbian, silvery, and Peruvian yellow-tailed woolly monkeys. More recent genetic studies suggest there are only two species—the ...

Keepers at a zoo in Essex have counted every tiger, monkey and seal as part of an annual stock take. Colchester Zoo updates its records at the end of each year to keep track of births, deaths and ...

Officials who oversee an international treaty governing endangered species recommended suspending shipments of long-tailed ...

The U.S. Border Patrol made an unusual discovery Tuesday when agents found several spider monkeys during a checkpoint ...

A February meeting could bring about the end of the trade in macaque monkeys commonly used in medical research.

Deputies responding to reports of a subject monkeying around found an actual monkey near a Missouri highway on Friday ...