Missing Park Monkey Turns Up In House: “A marmoset monkey missing from a Bedfordshire safari park surprised a family when it suddenly turned up on a curtain rail in their house.
Two-year-old Kite, who went missing from Woburn Safari Park, appeared at a house in nearby Aspley Guise.
Gemma Peck, 18, was eating breakfast and watching TV [...]
Lab Produces Monkeys With 2 Mothers: “Scientists have produced monkeys with genetic material from two mothers, an advance that could help women with some inherited diseases have healthy children but that would raise a host of safety, legal, ethical and social questions if attempted in people.
Using cloning-related techniques, the researchers developed a way to replace [...]
Jason Biggs’ recent dream vacation trip, to Gibraltar, Spain, turned into a nightmare in one quick flash.
The actor was enjoying a hike in the wilderness on the island, with American Pie costar Eddie Kaye Thomas, when he got attacked by a wild monkey!
“Jason and Eddie decided to go on the trip to celebrate the ten [...]
Machu The Monkey Briefly Breaks Out Of Wellington Zoo: “A tiny monkey’s big day out ended abruptly when he got cold feet.
Pygmy marmoset Machu who weighs about 120 grams escaped from his enclosure at Wellington Zoo yesterday, a fortnight after he and female friend Picchu moved in.
He appeared to be following in the pawprints of [...]
Thailand Launches Primate Birth Control: “Thailand is trying to limit the number of monkeys that roam freely in the town of Lopburi after residents complained the primate tourist attractions are becoming more annoying, and aggressive.
About 2,500 macaques live in close proximity to the people of Lopburi, north of Bangkok, scrambling around its famous, ancient Hindu-Buddhist [...]
Orangutans Make Musical Instrument: “The evidence is mounting that culture isn’t something unique to us humans: Orangutans in Borneo have developed and passed along a way to make a useful, improvised instrument, researchers report.
When in a tight situation, the orangutans will strip the leaves off a twig and make a crude musical instrument to alter [...]
School Planned To Rehab Delinquent Monkeys: “Wildlife officials in India plan to build a special school to improve the behaviour of delinquent monkeys.
They say the aim is to target monkeys that pose a serious threat to people in the state of Punjab. Officials say monkeys are a growing menace in Punjab as the animals move [...]
Monkey Takes Train For A Joy Ride: “In a bizarre incident, a monkey reportedly got into the driver’s cabin of a railway engine stationed in a northern railway workshop at Alambagh, and as it monkeyed around, it pressed a lever, setting the engine in motion.
The unmanned engine hurtled down the track, hit another engine which [...]
Woman Infected With Gorilla Strain Of HIV: “A woman who tested positive for HIV has been found to be carrying a new strain of the virus which is thought to have originally been passed to humans by gorillas.
The new strain was identified in a 62-year-old woman who moved to Paris after living in Yaounde, the [...]
The owners of a Richardson, Texas, gardening store have surveillance video of what appears to be a monkey burglarizing their business. A two-foot primate is the prime suspect in the latest break-in at the Richardson nursery. Duncan’s wife, Shelley Rosenfeld, said she didn’t believe it either, “until I looked at it and said, ‘This is crazy.’”
