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 ...

Here a white-faced capuchin monkey perches on a tree branch in Manuel Antonio National Park in Costa Rica. A group from the same genus has been observed with stolen howler monkey babies on a small ...

The life and eventual death of a capuchin monkey with a limb disability in the wild has been described by scientists, revealing that the mother and social group treated the disabled baby much the same ...

Bengaluru: Bannerughatta Biological Park (BBP) in Bengaluru has imported eight black-capped capuchin monkeys — four male and ...

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 ...

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 ...

A group of male capuchin monkeys kidnapped baby howler monkeys – a different species – on a small island of Panama. Video shows the howler monkeys clinging to the male capuchin monkeys’ backs, but the ...

Sept. 18 -- It turns out monkeys, like people, are no fools when it comes to equal pay for equal work. A new study found when brown capuchin monkeys noticed their partners were getting a better reward ...