Male capuchin monkeys on a Panamanian island were documented carrying around infant howler monkeys for no clearly discernible reason. By Elizabeth Landau Capuchin monkeys don’t generally hang out with ...

A monkey sits quietly on a large rock while holding a small packaged snack in front of it. Before eating, it carefully looks ...

Part I. Introduction. 1. Why is it important to continue studying the behavioral ecology and conservation management of howler monkeys? / Martín M. Kowalewski, Paul A. Garber, Liliana Cortés-Ortiz, ...

Introduction / Christina J. Campbell -- Morphology and evolution of the spider monkey, genus Ateles / Alfred L. Rosenberger ... [et al.] -- The taxonomic status of spider monkeys in the twenty-first ...

A team of neuroscientists at the University of Pennsylvania has, for the first time, observed how social behavior is encoded in the brain when monkeys are doing normal, everyday things rather than ...

And we need to start paying attention because all the weather predictions are saying that we’re going to get more unpredictability and more climate extremes.” Odd Jacobson, a behavioral ecologist at ...

Source: Wald1siedel, via Wikimedia Commons. Distributed under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Across the animal kingdom, numerous species engage in a behavior known as anointing. This is where animals rub ...

Wildlife tourism thrives on our fascination with animals and primates are particularly attractive animals to tourists. With their human-like faces, complex family dynamics and acrobatic antics, they ...

People’s love of furry animals is having some unexpected effects on the monkeys living in Gibraltar. A study out today shows that these monkeys are regularly eating dirt—likely as a way to soothe ...

TOKYO, Japan — A Japanese park famous for "snow monkeys" soaking in hot springs will cap daily numbers after a surge in ...