Macaque monkeys in two separate Japanese prefectures have taken the primatology world by storm after they were spotted attempting to mate with Sika deer. The phenomenon, originally observed in a ...

Self-scratching among non-human primates is known to indicate social tension and anxiety. The two researchers from Kyoto ...

Six Japanese macaques standing erect on leashes ... municipal agencies that offer programs to trap and kill crop-raiding animals. Young monkeys orphaned by such measures sometimes end up in ...

Throngs of macaque monkeys ran around, at times fighting with each other, while the crowds of visitors and locals grew. As the carefully prepared feast was brought toward the temple, the ravenous ...

PETA asked the NIMH in August to “provide real-time audiovisual communications from the rhesus macaques,” but the agency declined, saying its closed-circuit monitoring of the monkeys “is not ...

In the brain, not all blood flow is created equal. RIKEN researchers have developed a detailed cortical layer map of the blood vessels that weave through the brain of macaque monkeys. It reveals how ...

Five days after inducing partial spinal cord injuries that impaired hand movements in Japanese macaques, the researchers began administering the compound, and the monkeys underwent rehabilitative ...