Ultimately, Tim Baltz seemed to have a pleasant experience working with the capuchins, but it wasn't completely without risk.

Human wounds take almost three times as long to heal as those of other primates, which may come down to our lack of fur ...

South Carolina’s Morgan Island, also known as Monkey Island, has the largest rhesus monkey colony in the US. It was also ...

P rimates are a group of mammals that includes humans and our close relatives, such as apes, monkeys and lemurs. Monkeys, such as capuchins and macaques; prosimians, like lemurs a ...

Humans are primates, and chimpanzees and bonobos are our closest surviving relatives. Chimpanzees and capuchin monkeys use tools to get food. Primates often groom each other by picking off dirt ...

A team of evolutionary scientists, dermatologists and wildlife specialists affiliated with several institutions in Japan, ...

Nagoya University researchers in Japan have found that drug effectiveness, alcohol tolerance, and carbohydrate metabolism ...

The macaque monkey is the non-human primate best known to science ... cortex and traditionally associated with processing language in humans. Most if not all primates have an arcuate fasciculus but it ...

Primates, which include humans, apes, monkeys and lemurs are diverse in traits like brain size, diet, locomotion and habitat. Using insights from recent advances in primate genomics and studying ...

A Texas man was sentenced for smuggling six baby Mexican spider monkeys, too young to be separated from their mothers, into ...