Brenda Deutsch received three years of probation after the judge stressed that she was not convicted of trading the girl for a monkey Christina Coulter has been a Staff Writer covering crime at PEOPLE ...

Egyptian fruit bats flew more slowly after eating alcohol-laced food. Now the urine strips that caught boozy wild chimps may be used on wild bats. Teen Heart Health Scores Average 68.3 in Ninth Grade ...

A new species of monkey with distinctive orange lips and a deep roaring call has been identified in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Colobus congoensis, known to local people as Likweli, is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Colobus congoensis, known locally as “Likweli.” Junior Amboko Scientists have identified a new species of monkey in the forests of ...

It is only the fifth new African monkey identified as a new species in the past 75 years. By Kate Golembiewski Blurry photos are often held up as supposed evidence of elusive creatures like Nessie and ...

An international team of scientists, including Yale researchers, has described a new Colobus monkey species inhabiting high forest canopies in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). It is just the ...

In the rainforests of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), scientists have identified a previously unknown species of African monkey—one of the rarest discoveries in modern primatology. Named ...

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 ...

Images of him being bullied by his enclosure-mates, retreating to safety and clinging to a plushie look-alike for comfort won hearts around the world. And his zookeeper has told CNN that the seemingly ...

Over the past few weeks, a baby macaque at Japan’s Ichikawa City Zoo named Punch has taken the internet by storm. Viral videos capture the 7-month-old monkey getting shoved away by older members of ...

The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. A baby macaque monkey named Punch has gone viral for his heart-wrenching ...

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