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An inherited form of blindness directly comparable to a common inherited optic nerve disease in humans has been discovered in ...

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 ...

Ligers, mules, and narlugas are all known examples of hybrid animals (i.e., the offspring of two different species that interbreed for various reasons). These organisms often possess genes from each ...

ICHIKAWA, Japan (WFLA) — Videos of a baby Japanese macaque dragging an orangutan stuffed toy in a zoo in Japan won hearts across the internet. The monkey, Punch, was abandoned by his mother shortly ...

Crab-eating macaque (Macaca fascicularis, Long-tailed macaque) in water looking at the camera, monkey in the family Cercopithecidae, primate native to Southeast Asia.© Artur Bogacki/Shutterstock.com ...

It’s time to celebrate these remarkable and diverse monkeys. But it’s also time for action – macaques are heavily exploited ...

The newborn Japanese macaque, offspring of 12-year-old Usagi and 10-year-old Kota, made its public debut hours after birth on Macaque Island. An addition to the Milwaukee County Zoo's macaque family ...

Gibraltar’s macaques have been observed engaging in geophagy, the consumption of soil and clay, in an apparent attempt to ...

Discovering aggressive macaque monkey behavior caught on camera in jungle ...