A critically endangered monkey has given birth just months after surgeons saved her foot in a pioneering operation. Masaya was the first ever roloway monkey to undergo surgery which removed a golf-ball sized mass from her foot. The 15-year-old primate had one toe amputated during the procedure at University of Liverpool’s Small Animal Teaching Hospital. … Read more
This was a real order of monkey business. A Connecticut zoo asked for help naming its baby spider monkey — and revealed the winning moniker on Facebook Friday. The Beardsley Zoo in Bridgeport created an online poll so the public could help select an ape-propriate name for their female Black-handed spider monkey, which born in … Read more
Punch the baby orphan macaque is outgrowing the orangutan plushie that comforted him through early rejection from his mother and other monkeys. Images of Punch dragging around the toy bigger than him drew attention to the residents of a zoo near Tokyo. When other monkeys shooed the baby away, Punch rushed back to the toy … Read more
Call it monkey business. IKEA has sold out of its adorable Djungelskog orangutan soft toy, with the $20 item now fetching more than 10 times the retail price on eBay. The plushie has become a coveted collectible in recent weeks after playing a key part in a viral story about a bullied baby monkey at … Read more
People online are going bananas for a baby monkey and its stuffed animal. Punch, a baby macaque at Ichikawa City Zoo in Japan, has gone viral for seeking comfort in a plush toy after his mother abandoned him. Now, the president of IKEA Japan has paid the zoo a visit to make sure there’s always … Read more
A Sydney mother has revealed how a split second encounter with a monkey at a popular sanctuary in Bali turned into a living nightmare, resulting in a medical bill greater than USD $3967.32. Flavia McDonald, her husband and their 12-year-old daughter Lorena jetted off to the popular Indonesian holiday island on Father’s Day as a … Read more
Move over, fashion week — the hottest accessory of the season is a blade of grass shoved in your ear. Or, for the truly daring: your butt. Chimpanzees at a Zambian wildlife sanctuary are going viral — not for escaping or throwing poo, but for their bizarre behavior that’s as puzzling as it is cheeky. … Read more
Meet the monkey who befriended a dog and loves to cuddle and watch movies with his owner. Michael Robison, 45, rescued Winston four years ago after authorities busted an illegal animal broker. Michael is the founder of SPARTN Sanctuary, a rescue and rehabilitation center for primates, where he has taken in 10 spider monkeys. Among … Read more
ORANGE CITY, Fla. – Residents in one Florida town are on the lookout for monkeys roaming the streets. The Orange City Police Department warned the public on Monday after they received multiple reports of primate sightings within the city limits. The exact number of loose monkeys remains unknown, but officers are urging residents to exercise … Read more
Run, Curious George, run! The animated monkey was in the original script for “Forrest Gump,” director Robert Zemeckis revealed with stars Tom Hanks and Robin Wright in the latest of “Entertainment Weekly’s Reunions” video series released Wednesday. Tom Hanks, Robin Wright and Robert Zemeckis. youtube/Entertainment Weekly “I remember that first draft that Eric Roth wrote on ‘Gump,’ … Read more
A new, better Ozempic? Scientists from the University of Copenhagen say they have developed a drug that decreases appetite while increasing calorie burning — without any signs of nausea. “While GLP-1-based therapies have revolutionized patient care for obesity and Type 2 diabetes, safely harnessing energy expenditure and controlling appetite without nausea remain two holy grails … Read more
Could a smaller social circle be the key to longevity? Research shows that many animals, including humans, tend to withdraw as they age, a behavioral pattern known as social aging — and isolation seems to have an evolutionary advantage. A new study from the University of Exeter’s Centre for Research in Animal Behavior found that … Read more
Monkey see, monkey brew. A boozy monkey proved that we’re possibly more alike than once thought after it downed a beer it had scavenged from the garbage as stunned onlookers looked on. A video of the plastered primate is currently blowing up online. In the clip, filmed in Parana State, Brazil, shows two capuchin monkeys … Read more
movie review KINGDOM OF THE PLANET OF THE APES Running time: 145 minutes. Rated PG-13 (intense sequences of sci-fi violence/action). In theaters May 10. Fifty-five years, ten films and two TV shows later, “Planet of the Apes,” is, somehow, still as breathtaking as the first time we met Cornelius and Zira. The fantastic “Kingdom of the Planet … Read more
It was like a snapshot of evolution. A cheeky monkey perhaps proved that we’re more closely related than we think after it seemingly took a selfie with two British tourists in Bali, Indonesia. “It definitely was a trip of a lifetime!” Chloe Dennis told Caters News Agency of the primatological photo-op, which occurred while she … Read more
They’re not monkeying around with this breakthrough. Researchers from New York University Langone Health may have finally learned how early humans took a major step away from predecessor primates in the evolutionary process — by no longer growing tails starting 25 million years ago. “Our study begins to explain how evolution removed our tails, a … Read more
A feisty monkey has torn up a tourist’s passport in Bali leaving the woman aghast and unable to salvage it. The video of the unfortunate incident was posted on the Instagram page Idiots in Bali. While it is unknown how the monkey got its hands on the priceless document, the woman in the video did … Read more
So much for yoga being the ultimate path to enlightenment. An increasing number of people are finding the antidote to miserable modern living is going back several rungs on the evolutionary ladder — to live like a chimpanzee. Dubbed the “Tarzan Movement,” a new fitness trend sees proponents walking on all fours, climbing trees, mimicking … Read more
These monkeys are going bananas on one another. Same-sex monkeying around is all the rage among the rhesus macaques on Cayo Santiago, a 38-acre island off the coast of Puerto Rico, per a July 2023 study. And the researchers determined that 72% of the 236 male primates enjoy engaging in gay sex. They, too, discovered … Read more
Maybe he just loves that chicken from Popeyes? A loose monkey has been spotted in Central Florida, with the elusive simian recently seen scaring a woman working at a Popeyes drive-thru window. “I look over and I’m like, ‘Is this real? This cannot be possible,’” employee Kimberly Bialobos told FOX 35 after seeing the monkey … Read more