The urine of chimpanzees contains high levels of alcohol byproduct, most likely because the chimps regularly gorge themselves on fermented fruit, according to a new paper published in the journal ...
Has Punch the Monkey finally found a new home and been adopted? Nope. Let's clear up what's happening with the internet's ...
New Zealand conservationists have been fighting for years to keep the kakapo, the world’s only flightless parrot, from disappearing, with intensive conservation efforts.
Kakapo, the world’s only flightless parrot species, live on three tiny, remote islands off New Zealand’s southern coast and ...
From the last thylacine to Mollie the drinking, smoking orangutan, little Punch the monkey is the latest in a long line of lonely zoo animals.
For once, there’s good news in animal conservation. A population of Tonkin snub-nosed monkeys ( Rhinopithecus avunculus )—critically endangered primates with colorful faces and big lips—is stable.
Punch, a Japanese macaque, received an outpour of online love after videos of him clutching a small orangutan plushie at the Ichikawa City Zoo went viral.
The Oregon National Primate Research Center will explore a potentially federally supported transition with the National Institutes of Health ...
A rare monkey with a shock of orange hair has been born at a zoo. Whipsnade Zoo in Bedfordshire said the birth of the endangered François' langur offered renewed hope for the long-term survival of the ...
King colobus monkeys are classified as Endangered - with wild populations declining due to habitat loss and bushmeat hunting ...