Police in Puerto Rico captured a rhesus macaque monkey on Friday that was being chased by a crowd of people at a public housing complex near the U.S. territory’s north coast. The monkey was found ...
A family of Silver Springs macaques has been on the move, spotted off State Road 40 East, 5 miles from the park.
Facial expressions are central to social life, yet scientists still don’t fully understand how the brain produces them. To ...
The rhesus macaque is the most widely studied nonhuman primate in biomedical research. A genome sequencing project for this species, led by researchers at Baylor College of Medicine, the University of ...
A group of monkeys is challenging humans’ views on sexuality by showing that same-sex behavior among males strengthens their social networks and may even help them father more offspring. The findings, ...
In a promising result for the success of vaccines against COVID-19, rhesus macaque monkeys infected with the human coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 developed protective immune responses suggesting long-lasting ...
Residents in a South Carolina town were advised to close their windows and doors after 43 rhesus macaque monkeys escaped a testing facility Thursday. The warning came after the primates fled the ...
A wild rhesus macaque was spotted swinging around town in Orange City, Florida, a suburb of Orlando over the past week. The Orange City Police Department asked residents Wednesday to report any ...
The 43 rhesus macaque monkeys that escaped a South Carolina medical lab this week are among the most studied animals on the planet. And for more than a century, they have held a mirror to humanity, ...
The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is the agent that has sparked the current coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. The zoonotic virus (i.e., a pathogen of animal ...
Rhesus macaque mothers and infants at the California National Primate Research Center (K. West/CNPRC) Rhesus macaques naturally exposed to wildfire smoke early in pregnancy had an increased rate of ...