A female Japanese macaque nursing her few days old infant. Japanese macaques, also known as snow monkeys, give birth in spring to early summer. This early summer birthing season allows the infant to ...

Zika virus infection in pregnant rhesus macaques slows fetal growth and affects how infants and mothers interact in the first month of life, according to a new study from researchers at the California ...

Macaques are often studied because their brains share many similarities with human brains. However, this study revealed an ...

Wild Ireland in County Donegal is celebrating the birth of the rare monkey, which is described as endangered by the International Union for Conservation and Nature. Native to the Atlas Mountains in ...

A new report is the latest to bolster long-standing allegations that many long-tailed macaques imported into the U.S. for biomedical research were illegally caught from the wild and falsely labeled as ...

Some primatologists say the practice is bad for the animals and many tourists aren’t that interested in the monkey tricks, but the macaques' handlers say they’re preserving a unique part of Morocco’s ...

The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) is considering a total ban on the sale of endangered Cambodian long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis), ...