The myth of the aggressive monkey probably is based on often not taking into account basic ethological principles when managing rhesus macaques in the research laboratory setting. Macaca mulatta is ...

43 female rhesus macaques monkeys have broken out of a research facility in South Carolina, and are currently on the run, ...

This story appears in the August 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine. In India monkey business takes on a whole new meaning. Hanuman langurs are trained in New Delhi to scare off aggressive ...

Such provoked aggression is defensive rather than offensive, and unskillful management and/or human behavior is responsible for it. Staring at a caged rhesus monkey, for example, is unskillful; the ...

What is a woolly monkey? An animal called a woolly monkey seems like it should live in the frozen north, not the sweltering Amazon Basin. But the thick coat of fur covering these large primates ...

Babies raised with real mothers but no playmates were often fearful or inappropriately aggressive. Baby monkeys without playmates or real mothers became socially incompetent, and when older ...

Soon they will start biting people. In India, where monkeys are regarded sacred, they are caught and released into jungles. They also use a different type of aggressive monkey on a tether under the ...

Yung Ratana, deputy director of the FA's Conservation and Extension Office in Phnom Tamao, told The Post that the FA would extend its service to aggressive monkeys that belonged to families ...