Punch the monkey fans can put their hearts and minds at ease: The once-abandoned baby macaque is making more and more friends, according to his caretakers. So many, in fact, that he may be outgrowing ...

Maybe you've seen the "Friends" episode where Ross adopts a pet monkey named Marcel – only to eventually give him to a zoo because he's a wild and exotic animal. If you're thinking about adopting a ...

One of us is a Republican from New York City. One is a Democrat from Las Vegas. The third is an actress and animal welfare advocate. We do not agree on everything, but we agree on this: It is time to ...

Jimmy Hammonds admitted to violating wildlife laws by selling two “pocket monkeys” while on federal probation. An image filed as an exhibit in the federal case against Jimmy Hammonds, known as the ...

A critically endangered monkey has given birth just months after pioneering surgery saved her from undergoing an amputation. Masaya, a 15-year-old roloway monkey at Chester Zoo, had a golf-ball-sized ...

It is not unusual for laboratory monkeys to engage in abnormal repetitive behaviors (ARBs), such as pacing and hair-plucking. Conventional thinking is that these actions are linked to recent stresses ...

When Punch the monkey was abandoned by his mother, zookeepers gave him a surrogate and unexpected source of comfort: a stuffed animal. Videos of Punch snuggling the stuffie went viral, and, as his ...

The internet is losing its mind that Punch, the once abandoned monkey, may have a girlfriend. In a video captured on March 11, Punch, the baby macaque, is spotted cuddling up with another macaque in ...

Jimmy Hammonds, 62, was sentenced to nine months in federal prison for trafficking protected primates while on probation for the same offense Department of Justice Jimmy Hammonds, 62, was sentenced to ...

Modern apes may have swung into existence in North Africa or the Middle East. New fossil findings — published March 26 in Science — unveil Masripithecus, a roughly 17-million-year-old early ape that ...