On their Indonesian island, crested black macaques are hunted for meat, kept as pets, and threatened by a shrinking habitat.

ICHIKAWA, Japan — Punch the baby orphan macaque is outgrowing the orangutan plushie that comforted him through early rejection from his mother and other monkeys. Images of Punch dragging around the ...

A seven-year-old boy who was fatally mauled by his family's pet monkey in southern Thailand has become the focus of growing ...

Due to the incident, the Ichikawa City Zoo said it's going to strengthen its security measures ...

A super-cute baby monkey clinging to a stuffed animal for comfort caught the internet's eye last month. The little Japanese macaque is named Punch. His mother abandoned him, so the zoo where Punch ...

As an ideal model for studying human cognitive function and brain diseases, macaques are highly similar to humans in genetics, physiology, and brain structure. Currently, non-human primates are ...

We may not realize it, but our eyes constantly make rapid movements—two to three per second—even when we're looking at the same spot. Yet despite these frequent eye movements, we still perceive what ...

City of Ichikawa sets aside £370,000 in its supplementary budget for 2026 to improve conditions for Punch and the rest of the ...

Together with two colleagues from the Netherlands, Senckenberg scientist Ralf-Dietrich Kahlke examined the teeth of several macaques from the bottom of the North Sea. They constitute the first fossil ...

Japan Baby Monkey Punch, right a Japanese macaque born on July 26, 2025, sits with others in the monkeys' playground at the Ichikawa city zoo in Tokyo's eastward ...