People’s love of furry animals is having some unexpected effects on the monkeys living in Gibraltar. A study out today shows that these monkeys are regularly eating dirt—likely as a way to soothe ...

Japanese macaques, colloquially referred to as snow monkeys, famously soak in steaming hot springs during winter. It's easy to see that this helps them stay warm in cold temperatures, but a team of ...

Macaque monkeys in two separate Japanese prefectures have taken the primatology world by storm after they were spotted attempting to mate with Sika deer. The phenomenon, originally observed in a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This photo taken on February 19, 2026 shows a seven month-old male macaque monkey named Punch, who was abandoned by his mother ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Seven month-old Punch, a macaque monkey who was abandoned by his mother shortly after birth, sits with a stuffed orangutan toy at ...

The internet has a new favorite little guy. His name is Punch (or Punch-kun, as he's Japanese), a young macaque monkey living at the Ichikawa City Zoo in Japan. Like pygmy hippo Moo Deng or fluffy ...

Have you ever wondered what kind of video content would most grab the attention of monkeys? A new study of long-tailed macaques suggests the monkeys seem to like some of the same kind of content that ...

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Rachel van Vliet, MSc student, McGill University; Dr. Nadège Aigueperse, researcher, National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment; Dr. Elsa Vasseur, associate professor, McGill ...

This photo taken on February 19, 2026 shows a seven month-old male macaque monkey named Punch, who was abandoned by his mother shortly after birth, sitting with a stuffed orangutan toy at Ichikawa ...