All Stories: monkeys

TOKYO: A Japanese zoo has culled 57 native snow monkeys by lethal injection after finding that they carried genes of an "invasive alien species",...

WASHINGTON: From gorillas to gibbons, about 60 percent of primates, the closest biological relatives to human beings, are threatened by extinction due largely to...

Tourists are often advised not to feed the animals in an alien place. Ignoring this word can cost you dearly. And the same happened with a man trying to feed monkeys.

DONGYING: China has opened its first monkey school in Shandong province with 30 Japanese macaques - snow monkeys - enrolled into it, according to a local news website.

PARIS: Scientists said Wednesday a new drug tested on monkeys provided an astonishingly effective shield against an animal version of the AIDS virus, a major gain in the quest for an HIV vaccine.

KOLKATA: Fourteen monkeys have died after snatching and then eating biscuits laced with rat poison in eastern India, officials said Monday.

NEW DELHI: The Indian government has revealed to have trained 40 persons – particularly the youth – to disguise as ‘langurs’ in order to scare away real monkeys who often overrun parliament and other areas falling into the VVIP zone.