Out of every 100 animals smuggled, only 10 survive." Security personnel seize surprising creature in suspicious parcel: 'At ...

Of two hunky monkeys, which would you say has the most sex appeal? That’s easier to answer if you’re a rhesus macaque (Macaca mulatta)—or Constance Dubuc, an evolutionary biologist at the ...

From alpacas to pot-bellied pigs, the San Luis Obispo County Animal Services shelter has cared for some unusual critters.

In what started with a need to breed a disease-free cohort of baby rhesus macaque monkeys to observe, Harlow began quarantining the infants in individual cages, Reddy explains in her book.

The company confirmed that 43 rhesus macaque primates escaped from an enclosure at one of the company's facilities. The Yemassee Police Department said in November that traps with bait were set up ...

1996; cf. Novak et al., 1998). In rhesus macaques - the predominant species found in laboratories - the incidence of self-biting may be as high as 14% (recorded in a colony of 188 single-caged males; ...

Zika, a mosquito-borne virus first identified in 1947 in a Rhesus macaque monkey ... which is when a baby's head is much smaller than expected, and other congenital malformations like limb ...

“It was a real team and community effort,” Westergaard said. It started Nov. 6, when 43 rhesus macaques escaped from the Alpha Genesis facility. An employee didn’t close the doors in the ...