Study: Wild Monkeys Resort to Use of Tools
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Wild South American monkeys routinely use fist-sized rocks to crack open seeds and to dig in dry Brazilian soil for grubs and edible tubers, researchers report in the journal Science.
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Reseachers have linked the survival of the Acacia tree-ant relationship to Africa's big browsing mammals
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Researchers who once dismissed another team's cloning method used the disputed process to create monkey embryos. By Kristen Philipkoski.
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106 chimpanzees, 32 orangutans and 105 babies face "The Primate Cognition Test Battery.".
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By TALES AZZONI  SAO PAULO, Brazil - The theft of a rare Amazon monkey from a Brazilian zoo could harm biologists' efforts to repopulate the endangered species, zoo officials said Wednesday.
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Monkey handler Ramal Lala strolls along New Delhi's streets, a leash on his monkey named Mungle. The local government has hired the two to chase down thousands of smaller monkeys known to roam this mega-city of 13 million people, hopping on just about anything, breaking into houses and occasionally biting spectators.
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A northern Indian state said Thursday it planned to use unemployed youths to sterilize monkeys to try to combat aggressive primates who have been raiding farms. The idea drew immediate condemnation from conservationists, who said the plan was unscientific and would likely worsen the problem.
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WASHINGTON - Wild South American monkeys routinely use fist-sized rocks to crack open seeds and to dig in dry Brazilian soil for grubs and edible tubers, researchers report in the journal Science.
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Maybe walking upright on two legs isn't such a defining human feature after all. Scientists who spent a year photographing orangutans in the rain forest say the trait probably evolved in ancient apes navigating the treetops long before ancestors of humans climbed to the ground &#151; a hypothesis that contradicts science museums the world over.
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There are 19 macaque species in Asia and one in Africa, and they are said to be second only to human beings in their wide geographical distribution.
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Chimpanzees in West Africa were using stone tools to crack nuts 4,300 years ago, archaeologists say.
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Monkeys in Brazil routinely use stones and twigs to forage for food, providing more evidence to undermine the belief that man is the only species with the intelligence to make tools.
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NEW YORK - A species of monkey previously unknown to science has been discovered in the forests of northeastern India. The Arunachal macaque has a dark face and is relatively large with a shorter tail than most macaques.
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Selling sex is said to be humankind's oldest profession but it may have deep evolutionary roots, according to a study into our primate cousins which found that male macaques pay for intercourse by using grooming as a currency.
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Breaking and entering, ransacking refrigerators, and defecating in posh homes, big monkeys are showing what can happen when civilization comes to the wild.
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Almost a third of all primates face extinction because of damage to their habitats, a report warns.
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The theft of a rare Amazon monkey from a Brazilian zoo could harm biologists' efforts to repopulate the endangered species, zoo officials said Wednesday.