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Monkeys are often framed as clever tricksters, sacred figures, or roadside entertainers, but that softer image can hide a harder truth. A handful of species become genuinely risky when food ...

Much like their human cousins, baby macaques crave comfort.

Punch, a baby macaque abandoned by its mother, shot to stardom after being pictured getting bullied by other monkeys and seeking comfort from the orangutan toy.

Africa’s largest monkey, the mandrill, Mandrillus sphinx, is being forced out of its home within a national park due to hunting pressure, new research has revealed.

Punch, a 7-month-old macaque, being raised at Japan’s Ichikawa City Zoo, is winning hearts globally after clips of him being rejected by other monkeys and clinging on to a stuffed toy for comfort, wen ...

Punch became an internet sensation after footage of him clinging forlornly to zookeepers and dragging around a stuffed orangutan toy was widely shared.

Punch sat down and gave up on communicating with another baby monkey when he was 'scolded and dragged by an adult monkey' ...

Rombo. The Ministry of Natural Resources and Tourism has announced plans to revive the trade in live animals, including baboons and monkeys, rather than killing them, as a measure to reduce their ...

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