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

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

A camera trap in Costa Rica’s Nicoya Peninsula captured spider monkeys decades after they disappeared, revealing the success ...

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 ...

Mexican spider monkeys – an endangered species – named Miso, Matcha and Mei are being given a new chance at life after being rescued from the illegal wildlife pet trade.

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 ...

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 ...

The monkeys — one male and two females named Miso, Matcha and Mei — are each just under two months old. They were confiscated by law enforcement, transferred to the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service and ...

The first time I saw it, I wasn’t quite sure what I was looking at. A northern white-cheeked gibbon at Shanghai Zoo was holding and caressing a mouse that had wandered into its enclosure. It wasn’t ...