As its first new major exhibit in nine years, the Lincoln Park Zoo chose to bring eight snow monkeys, otherwise known as Japanese macaques, to Chicago because of their unique ability to adjust to ...

devoted to the Lincoln Park macaques. The second viewing area that will open includes a spot for visitors to observe the monkeys doing the same kind of cognitive research Ross leads with the zoo ...

(STMW) --Lincoln Park Zoo's new snow monkey exhibit just opened in April, and it's population has already grown by one. "We are absolutely elated too announce the first successful Japanese macaque ...

All options were cities from the monkey’s native habitat of Japan, and they all started with “O” to match the first letter of his mom’s name, Ono. Obu was born May 2 and is the first ...

A tinge of jealousy might creep in as Lincoln Park Zoo spectators — standing in the cold — watch Japanese monkeys lounge in a hot tub placed right in front of a viewing window at the zoo’s ...

CHICAGO (WLS) — An endangered monkey at Chicago’s Lincoln Park Zoo is now cancer-free following a first-of-its-kind surgery. The patient is named Zhang, an old-world monkey known as a Francois ...

LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) – The Lincoln Children’s Zoo has a new addition. A female black-headed spider monkey that was born on Sunday. “Spider monkeys are a critically endangered species that ...

It’s a snow monkey! Lincoln Park Zoo on Monday announced the first birth amid its new troop of Japanese macaques, commonly known as snow monkeys. The male, as yet unnamed, was born Saturday and ...