Long-tailed macaques given short videos were glued to scenes of fighting—especially when the combatants were monkeys they knew—mirroring the human draw to drama and familiar faces. Low-ranking ...

Scientists call this phenomenon emotional mimicry. Biologists and psychologists consider this automatic matching of another’s ...

A young macaque at a zoo in Japan has a fan base that can’t get enough of him. Why are we so invested in the social life of one cute monkey?

A colony of African vervets in Dania Beach raises big questions about how humans can and should manage nonnative species.

While this is by no means a quantum leap for HIV treatment in humans, any AIDS progress is great AIDS progress. Especially when the progress is in our furry monkey relatives, who are responding ...

If you've fallen in love with a baby monkey named Punch, you're not alone.The Japanese macaque at Ichikawa City Zoo in Japan has drawn a global online audience after videos and photos of Punch toting ...