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 ...

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 ...

Police in Puerto Rico captured a rhesus macaque monkey on Friday that was being chased by a crowd of people at a public housing complex near the U.S. territory’s north coast. The monkey was found ...

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 ...

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 ...