Scientists call this phenomenon emotional mimicry. Biologists and psychologists consider this automatic matching of another’s ...
A colony of African vervets in Dania Beach raises big questions about how humans can and should manage nonnative species.
From tool-using chimpanzees to puzzle-solving capuchins, the primate world is packed with surprising brainpower. But how do the planet’s cleverest monkeys and apes really compare with human intelligen ...
A zookeeper gives an update on the progress of Punch, the baby Japanese macaque, and fans of the monkey explain why people ...
If you’ve been on the internet in the past week, you know about Punch, the 7-month old Japanese macaque whose sad tale of abandonment and loneliness has spread around the world via video clips and ...
Considered messengers of the gods, the macaques are now made to wear costumes, do backflips, and walk on stilts to please crowds.