Conservationists hope the birth of a monkey will help raise awareness ... of Nature and sits on the organisation's Red List ...

Spider monkeys are large New World monkeys that live in tropical rainforests from central Mexico in the north to Bolivia in the south. There are seven species of these agile primates, which get ...

For example, a rhesus monkey named ''Miss Sam'' was launched in 1960 in a Mercury capsule that attained a velocity of 1,800 mph (1,900 kph) and an altitude of 9 miles (14.5 kilometers) . She was ...

A taxocene, for example, is a subset of species sharing a common taxonomic classification. The monkeys and apes of Kibale National Park is an example of a taxocene: they are classified within the ...

Back in 2004, Kate Detwiler had her binoculars trained on a guenon monkey perched in a tree deep in Tanzania’s Gombe National Park. She was waiting for the monkey to defecate so she could alert her ...

The Barbary macaque is a monkey of many distinctions ... and it’s the only macaque living outside of Asia. Other macaque species once ranged from East Asia to northwest Africa; only the Barbary ...

BANGKOK (AP): A monkey with ghostly white circles around its eyes is among 224 new species listed in the World Wildlife Fund’s latest update on the greater Mekong region. The conservation group ...