Punch, a baby macaque abandoned by its mother, shot to stardom after being pictured getting bullied by other monkeys and seeking comfort from the orangutan toy.

Punch, a 7-month-old macaque, being raised at Japan’s Ichikawa City Zoo, is winning hearts globally after clips of him being ...

Punch sat down and gave up on communicating with another baby monkey when he was 'scolded and dragged by an adult monkey' ...

The rules of Japan’s national sport are relatively straightforward: two rikishi—literally, “strong men”—face each other near the center of the ring, crouched on their haunches, like plus-size ...

Following years of advocacy by the Physicians Committee, other groups, and people across Oregon, the Oregon National Primate ...

How to make a personal-item backpack work for a trip – and space heaters, Valentine’s chocolates … and bath towels!

Hamadryas baboons interact energetically, displaying playful antics in their lively troop.

No, chimpanzees and other great apes cannot breed with monkeys. Even though we often think of primates – the order of mammals that includes great apes such as chimps and ourselves, gibbons, monkeys ...

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Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi pushed through a record supplemental budget and is proposing tax cuts, raising questions about how the government will pay for it all. By River Akira Davis Reporting from ...

Sanae Takaichi, who has proved popular as the first woman to lead Japan as prime minister, was on course for a sweeping mandate after a snap election on Sunday. By Javier C. Hernández Reporting from ...

Sanae Takaichi has made a big impression since becoming Japan’s first female prime minister last fall: charming President Donald Trump, starting a diplomatic spat with China and playing the drums to K ...