Brookfield Zoo Chicago opened its new Tropical Forests primate habitat Friday, featuring an expanded space for the zoo’s first troop of bachelor gorillas and endangered black-handed spider monkeys ...

Brookfield Zoo Chicago just got a whole lot cuter thanks to the arrival of a new baby squirrel monkey! And the best part? You can see this precious new arrival in person starting Friday, July 11 ...

Brookfield Zoo Chicago just got a whole lot cuter thanks to a new baby squirrel monkey, and he's ready to meet his new admirers!

In Colombia’s Middle Magdalena region, a patchwork of forest corridors is linking up isolated populations of the critically endangered brown spider monkey (Ateles hybridus). Composed of native ...

Hundreds of monkeys can now safely cross roads in Alta Floresta, a city in the southern Brazilian Amazon. Seven canopy ...

Capuchin Monkey. Image via Pixabay. The scientific documentation of capuchin nut-cracking behavior came relatively late compared to observations of tool use in chimpanzees. In 2004, researchers led by ...

An adorable new-born Titi monkey is winning the heart of visitors at award-winning Yorkshire Wildlife Park.

In a significant development for wildlife welfare, the Lahore High Court (LHC) has issued a stay order halting the proposed transfer of endangered Brazilian rainforest monkeys from Karachi to the ...

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Vervet monkeys (Chlorocebus pygerythrus), with their distinctive blue scrotums and grayish-green fur, have become increasingly problematic in many tourist destinations across Africa and the Caribbean ...