U.S. Secretary of Health Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says he wants to end the use of primates in federally funded research, a wish that could have dramatic consequences for S.C.’s famous “Monkey Island” and ...

A monkey who spent several days on the lam after escaping from a truck that crashed on a rural Mississippi highway earlier this year now has a permanent home at a New Jersey wildlife refuge. Forrest, ...

The Popcorn Park Animal Refuge in Forked River has announced the arrival of Forrest, a rhesus macaque who was recovered after a transport vehicle crash on I-59 in Mississippi. Forrest, an escaped lab ...

The Monkey King — known as Sun Wukong in Chinese — first burst fully-formed out of a rock in the classic 1592 novel Journey to the West, widely attributed to the poet Wu Cheng'en. Sponsor Message ...

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A woman in Mississippi shot and killed one of the three Rhesus monkeys that escaped after a truck carrying research animals overturned on Interstate 59 last week. Jessica Bond Ferguson, a mother of ...

Escaped monkey captured by authorities days after truck crash flips vehicle in Mississippi Homeowner discovered primate on property near Heidelberg as authorities continue search for two others ...

Officers responded to a Spirit Halloween store in Plano on Monday night to assist with the retrieval of a customer’s loose pet monkey, body camera footage shows. In the footage, the monkey is seen ...

A trip to a Spirit Halloween store in Plano, Texas, turned into a wild scene Monday night when a pet monkey escaped its owner and began swinging through the rafters. What’s usually a store filled with ...

Earlier this year, researchers on a federally funded study of alcohol abuse faced a dilemma. What do you do with two old, drunken monkeys? Hoo Hoo and Duff, both 18, had given years of service to Wake ...

Howler monkeys get their name for a pretty obvious reason: their howling. With a rough and deep tone, these monkeys communicate using a powerful howling noise, which can be intimidating. So what might ...