“Feed, rest, feed, rest, feed, rest, move to another site, feed and rest,” Shah says jokingly of the monkey’s lifestyle. Lion-tailed macaques live in groups of, on average, 15 individual ...

The long-tailed macaque and pig-tailed macaque are now endangered in the wild according to the IUCN Red List, which says exports for monkey research are partially to blame. Dan is a News Editor at The ...

The snow monkeys are one of several groups of Japanese macaques that have changed the ... The alpha male Shika strutted up to Suzumura with his tail pointed in the air and chased away any other ...

Mauritius has become the world’s leading exporter of research primates, pitting conservationists, politicians, and neighbors against one another Mauritius—Nestled here at the foot of two of the ...

This story appears in the November 2014 issue of National Geographic magazine. The Barbary macaque is a monkey of many distinctions. It is the only primate, other than humans, north of the Sahara ...

pig-tailed macaques, squirrel monkeys, owl monkeys, African green monkeys, marmosets, baboons, spider monkeys, capuchin monkeys, titi monkeys, and others. Both wild-caught and purpose-bred animals are ...