Samson remains the Zoo’s most famous resident and an imposing icon 75 years after arriving in Milwaukee. Our understanding of ...

A troop of macaques escaped one of the largest primate-breeding facilities in America. Now a strange coalition of ...

My full name is Manando, but I’m commonly known as Manny, a name I inherited from my grandmothers’ brother, who was a village headman under the paramount Chief Mpezeni of the Ngoni (a clan of the Zulu ...

When most people think about getting a pet, they picture a trip to the local shelter or maybe a reputable breeder for a purebred dog. The ultra-wealthy, however, operate on an entirely different plane ...

What appears to be a cozy bedtime for a baby monkey is actually a living experiment in evolutionary biology. The ritualized preparation for rest, from formula blending to creating a protective space, ...

A Minnesota zoo announced the recent birth of a cotton-top tamarin, a critically-endangered species of monkey native to the ...

Selecting his own 24 hours of horror marathon, Oz Perkins, the director of Longlegs and The Monkey, has your Halloween ...

Movies have always played up the mad scientist trope, but real-life labs have carried out experiments that make fiction look ...

Doris Schumacher Thom was just 10 years old when her father was killed in 1930, at the age of 46, while working as a train ...

Monkeys have deep roots in Chinese art and culture, appearing in countless paintings and as characters in classic literature.