The 43 rhesus macaque monkeys that escaped a South Carolina medical lab this week are among the most studied animals on the planet. And for more than a century, they have held a mirror to humanity ...

Of two hunky monkeys, which would you say has the most sex appeal? That’s easier to answer if you’re a rhesus macaque (Macaca mulatta)—or Constance Dubuc, an evolutionary biologist at the ...

A University of Wisconsin study on anxiety using rhesus macaque monkeys will no longer involve separating the babies from their mothers. Researchers found that monkeys raised without their mothers ...