Humans Love Having Pets. Seems Like Some Other Primates Do, Too.

We aren’t the only animals that like to take care of other species. A new study finds that the roots of keeping a pet may ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Do Monkeys Keep Pets? Study Finds Widespread Primate Interactions With Other Animal Species, From Mice to Deer

This social behavior might reveal the evolutionary roots of traits that underlie pet-keeping in humans, scientists say, from ...

Scottish zoo's escaped Japanese macaque monkey returns home

A Japanese macaque monkey that escaped from a Scottish zoo returned to the facility on his own and is now safely back in his ...

Scottish zoo searching for escaped Japanese macaque monkey

A zoo in Scotland is on the hunt for a Japanese macaque monkey that absconded from the facility and was spotted running loose ...
EcoPortal.net

Capuchin monkeys raising infant marmosets, langurs petting squirrels — primates may have been forming “pet” bonds long before humans

Discover how capuchin monkeys and other primates form deep bonds with different species, suggesting a long evolutionary ...

In the 1930s, Florida introduced rhesus macaques to boost tourism; today the invasive monkeys carry a potentially fatal virus and are considered a public-health c…

Nonhuman primates (NHPs) can harbour multiple zoonotic pathogens owing to their close phylogenetic relationship and frequent ...
Medical Xpress

Single-neuron projectomes of macaque prefrontal cortex reveal primate-specific connectivity principle

In a study published in Cell on July 10, researchers reported the first comprehensive study of whole-brain projectomes of the macaque prefrontal cortex (PFC) at the single-neuron level and revealed ...

Monkey escapes from Highland Wildlife Park in Cairngorms

A young monkey has managed to get out of a wildlife park that was at the centre of a similar monkey escape two years ago. The ...