With their expressive faces, social behavior, and striking features, Japanese macaques – also known as snow monkeys – often ...

The human fascination with watching others—whether through reality TV, Instagram stories or overheard drama—is often dismissed as nosiness. To explore the origins of social curiosity, Laura Lewis, a ...

The Puerto Rican island of Cayo Santiago is home to one of the world’s oldest and most unusual primate research colonies.

Here, we examined the effects of reproductive state on activity budget, feeding behavior, and urinary C-peptide (uCP) levels, a physiological marker of energy balance, in 43 wild female Assamese ...

The zoo is the perfect place to observe primates in the wild: pushing their offspring in strollers. Eating pizza. Cooling off on a bench in the shade. Buying souvenirs. Demanding ice cream. Gawking at ...

Guanfacine, an α2-adrenoceptor agonist, has been used to successfully treat self-injurious behavior in nonhuman primates, including macaques (Macaca mulatta) and baboons (Papio anubis). It does so by ...

An addition to the Milwaukee County Zoo's macaque family arrived when Usagi, a 12-year-old Japanese macaque, welcomed her second baby on June 8, increasing the troop's size to 11 members.

Data on the reproduction of the 28 Arashiyama West and Arashiyama B Japanese macaque females 18 years and older are surveyed. Analysis of the data suggest that, despite parturition by a 25-year-old ...

In primates ranging from gorillas to macaques to people, females are more likely to get "the ick"—and researchers think there's a surprising benefit.