determining which orientation or facial features individual cells were tuned to recognize and mapping the interconnections and functional specializations within the macaque face-patch system.

Since 2012 Dubuc and colleagues from New York University have studied more than 250 free-ranging rhesus macaques at a field site in the Caribbean. The goal: to learn how face color—which varies ...

Anup Shah & Fiona Rogers Weighing under a pound at birth, lion-tailed macaques nurse for up to a year. Anup Shah & Fiona Rogers Near an old plantation, a young macaque, not quite an adult ...

With a bright red, hairless face, the sight of one of these monkeys ... this particular breed of macaque is also known as the Japanese snow monkey. Found on almost every island in Japan, the ...

A crazed pet monkey sparked chaos when it attacked two children in Thailand. The five-year-old male macaque escaped from its ...

But their close association with human society is actually a sign of the danger they face. “Most of the macaque’s world is in what we call anthropogenic environments, which is one of the big reasons ...

The light is soft and inviting and perfectly captures the expression on the infant’s face.” Toque macaques mainly eat fruit, but will also eat flowers, new leaf shoots, tubers, insects and the ...

Macaque mothers experience a short period of physical restlessness after the death of an infant, but do not show typical human signs of grief, such as lethargy and appetite loss, finds a new study ...