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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Jon Stewart has been gleefully hating on Punch, the Ichikawa City Zoo monkey who found comfort in a stuffed toy after being abandoned, ever since the poor little guy first went viral. In the Daily ...

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 ...

Punch the monkey slowly integrates at Ichikawa City Zoo, staff says Viral monkey Punch shows new social behavior by approaching other monkeys on his own, according to the Ichikawa City Zoo.