By Spoorthy Raman Between 2000 and 2023, more than 6,000 African primates were traded internationally in 50 countries, ...

WASHINGTON -- The ancestry of the virus that caused the AIDS epidemic has been traced to two strains of a virus found in monkeys in Africa. The viruses probably passed into chimpanzees when the apes ...

A wildlife patrol at a nature reserve in the Democratic Republic of Congo filmed the first-ever video of a “very rare” monkey species. Photo from Getty / iStockphoto During a routine survey at a ...

A group of monkeys went viral after attempting to escape hot temperatures in South Africa by taking a dip in a man's swimming pool. The video shared to Facebook by homeowner Michael Derek Rout shows ...

KAMPALA, Uganda-- A team of scientists has identified a new species of monkey in central Africa that had been known to the locals simply as lesula, a medium-size, slender animal with an owlish face ...

An ongoing outbreak of yellow fever in Colombia is sickening and killing rare and threatened monkey species in captivity, a new study shows. Between February and May 2025, authorities reported eight ...