Research has shown that human bodily responses and cognitive shifts affect each other in both directions. We feel sorry because we cry, but also cry when feeling sorry. So, what then for our primate ...

Japanese macaques are observed hugging on the island of Shodoshima. A Japanese macaque grooms another immediately after they hugged each other on the island of Shodoshima. FUKUYAMA -- Japanese ...

Japan's hot spring macaques in Jigokudani Park draw record crowds, with 257,000 visitors last year, 60% of them international ...

The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) is considering a total ban on the sale of endangered Cambodian long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis ...

The U.S. Geological Survey put the quake’s preliminary magnitude at 6.8. The Japan Meteorological Agency said it had an intensity of lower 5 on the Japanese scale of 0 to 7. The quake began at ...

Over 40 monkeys that escaped a research facility in South Carolina three months ago have all been recovered safely.

The area around the Sharavathi project is inhabited by the endangered Lion-Tailed Macaque, which requires a tree canopy for their movement and survival, and the project is expected to put stress ...

An antibody that can bind to many different types of influenza virus prevented macaques from getting seriously sick, and dying, from a highly pathogenic strain of H5N1 bird flu. The findings could ...

The officials who oversee an international treaty governing endangered species recommended suspending shipments of long-tailed macaques — which are regularly used in medical research — from ...

"What's become clear through … groups like PETA and others is that there is an ongoing trade of illegal Cambodian long-tailed macaques that are being imported into Canada for the purpose of what ...