The Instagram account spidermonkeyniko has attracted attention by documenting the daily life of a pet spider monkey named Niko. Videos shared on the account show Niko living alongside the family ...

The Instagram account spidermonkeyniko has attracted attention by documenting the daily life of a pet spider monkey named Niko. Videos shared on the account show Niko living alongside the family ...

Knoxville's animal ordinances limit the number of cats and dogs residents can keep. Here's what the rules say and how they ...

Monkeys and apes form surprising relationships with other species, offering clues about how our close bonds with animals ...

Under human care, these monkeys can live between 25 and 45 years. While it's unknown exactly how old Zoo Boise's spider ...

We aren’t the only animals that like to take care of other species. A new study finds that the roots of keeping a pet may stretch deep into our primate past. Stump-tailed macaques grooming a dog in ...

Oxford University associate professor of anthropology Cyril Grueter’s study was not a designed experiment but rather a compilation of examples in which primates have been observed interacting with ...

A tufted gray langur strokes a grizzled giant squirrel in Yala National Park, Sri Lanka. Senthi Aathavan Senthilverl via Grueter et al., Primates, 2025, under CC BY 4.0 When a mouse wandered into the ...

How do you search for the world’s smallest monkey? Earlier this year, Nicolás Schuldt Durán took on this task after he was ...

The bearded capuchins of northeastern Brazil typically eat plant-based foods, but they turn to small vertebrates when those sources are limited. Our ancestors may have done the same, eventually allowi ...

Long-term study in Brazil shows black-striped capuchins rely more on small vertebrates when plant foods are limited, with ...