"Primate mothers are some of the best mothers you will find in the animal kingdom," one expert said. So what happened with ...

A sediment-washing “bubbler” helped researchers recover 65.5-million-year-old teeth that illuminate how early primate ...

Viral baby monkey’s new behavior sparks questions about imitation.

A few teeth, smaller than a grain of rice, are changing the map of your earliest primate relatives. They come from a creature called Purgatorius, a tiny tree-dwelling mammal that lived about 66 ...

A Japanese macaque named Punch has gone viral. A biologist explains how his journey from abandonment to social integration ...

The monkey captured the hearts of millions of internet users after he was filmed carrying and hugging a stuffed animal—bigger than himself—around his enclosure at Japan’s Ichikawa City Zoo. As ...

Primates are a group of mammals that includes humans and our close relatives, such as apes, monkeys and lemurs. Monkeys, such as capuchins and macaques; prosimians, like lemurs and tarsiers; lesser ...

Phoenix Zoo staff tossed a stuffed toy to Bodie, a 4-year-old siamang, to encourage play and behavioral enrichment.

The zoo says Punch is adjusting to troop life amid growing attention, with staff insisting “animal welfare is the top ...