Homosexual behavior is not limited to humans. Biologists have reported homosexual behavior in many species of wild animal, ranging from bats and birds to dolphins and primates. When animals engage in ...

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

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As climate change alters the temperatures of animal habitats, it seems natural that endotherms, warm-blooded animals, would ...

Research in recent years has linked a person's physical or social environment to their well-being. Stress wears down the body and compromises the immune system, leaving a person more vulnerable to ...

Humans have long known how to synchronize to rhythms. But now, researchers from Japan have found that movement synchronization spontaneously takes place in macaque monkeys as well. In a study recently ...

The Caribbean Primate Research Center on Monkey Island is one of the world’s top institutions for studying primate behavior Jennifer Nalewicki | Travel Correspondent Some 1,500 rhesus macaques live a ...

Curiosity over rewards: Japanese macaques played a touchscreen game for nearly 100 trials without any food incentive, driven purely by curiosity. Goldilocks principle: Monkeys preferred a moderate ...

Crab-eating macaque (Macaca fascicularis, Long-tailed macaque) in water looking at the camera, monkey in the family Cercopithecidae, primate native to Southeast Asia.© Artur Bogacki/Shutterstock.com ...