Nipah virus was first identified in 1998 during an outbreak among pig farmers in Malaysia. Later, pteropus bat populations have been identified as its primary reservoir. How do factors like ecological ...

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Punch, a baby Japanese macaque monkey, has gone viral for videos of him dragging a stuffed orangutan as he struggles to find acceptance.

After a neighbor's complaint, Independence may expand its definition of "nuisance" animals to include habitually roaming pets.

BEAUFORT — A South Carolina company that has secured over $120 million in federal money to breed monkeys is now offering a new service: a retirement home for primates no longer needed in medical ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — For weeks, the future of the Oregon National Primate Research Center at OHSU has been heated and controversial topic. Should they continue research that brings in millions of dollars ...

Oregon Health & Science University’s leaders voted Monday to begin talks with the National Institutes of Health over the future of the Oregon National Primate Research Center, a move that starts a ...

Ed Silverman, a senior writer and Pharmalot columnist at STAT, has been covering the pharmaceutical industry for nearly three decades. He is also the author of the morning Pharmalittle newsletter and ...

In the U.S., there are about 100,000 monkeys, baboons, and other primates living in captivity to support scientific research. About 5,000 of them are at OHSU’s Oregon National Primate Research Center.

A recent study into same-sex behavior in primates finds that social organization and ecological factors, including climatic conditions, influence this behavior. In gorilla groups, same-sex relations ...

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As animals go about their lives — eating, fighting, having babies — they don’t always follow the script laid out for them by Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution. Not every behavior furthers the cause ...