Each winter, hundreds of thousands of tourists visit to see the spectacle of Japan's snow monkeys bathing in the hot springs ...

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 ...

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

There was even a version for what the editor of the Review cheerfully calls ‘the poor, mad Japanese’. On examination Anita Loo’s masterpiece turns out to contain no explicit sex at all, which must ...

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"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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Monkeys, like humans, have an in-built ability to spot snakes ultra-fast, and new research suggests scales are a key visual cue for primates when detecting these slithering threats. However, when the ...

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 ...