Anup Shah & Fiona Rogers Weighing under a pound at birth, lion-tailed macaques nurse for up to a year. Anup Shah & Fiona Rogers Near an old plantation, a young macaque, not quite an adult ...

Where macaque territories overlap ... where consumption of bush meat is common. On the other hand, as fruit eaters and seed scatterers, the monkeys are “gardeners of the forest,” Hilser ...

The Green Group has been studied by scientists for 15 years and is currently made up of approximately 80 individuals. The first way to tell the difference between macaques is their size.

Macaque monkeys, for example, have at least 32 functionally distinct areas of the cerebral cortex that are devoted primarily to processing visual information (Van Essen et al., 1992; Van Essen ...

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 ...

Macaque mothers experience a short period of physical restlessness after the death of an infant, but do not show typical human signs of grief, such as lethargy and appetite loss, finds a new study ...