An escaped monkey running rampant around the Irish countryside is just looking for love and should not be targeted by hunters, its owner urged. Willie Heffernan, owner of the Rathdrum Monkey Sanctuary ...

Many nonhuman primate species show sex differences in behavior, which suggests that there may also be sex differences in brain organization. In order to better understand the evolution of sex ...

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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 ...

IREDELL COUNTY, N.C. (QUEEN CITY NEWS) — A capuchin monkey that escaped from Zootastic Park last week in Troutman is now back home. A 5-year-old female capuchin monkey escaped from the zoo on ...

(CNN) — At first, behavioral ecologist Zoë Goldsborough thought the small figure seen on the back of a capuchin monkey in her camera trap footage was just a baby capuchin. But something, she said, ...