There’s growing evidence that animals have a sense of humour. Should this change how we see them?

This is the moment a daring monkey risked its life for a juicy apple. A video filmed in Chongqing, China, on March 30, 2025, shows the fearless primate perched on a precarious branch dangling over a ...

Flight attendants' posture, hands under thighs during takeoff and landing, isn't casual. It's a safety measure preventing injuries during emergencies. This 'brace position' restricts movement ...

This valuable study shows that locomotion-related modulations in the mouse visual cortex are not uniform but primarily affect neurons in muscarinic receptor-negative patches, which receive projections ...

Primatologists and conservation organizations have launched a 10-year action plan to improve the outlook for langur monkeys in the Sundaland biodiversity hotspot, a region of Southeast Asia that spans ...

Metabolism is known to be linked to lifespan in some species, though it remains unclear how this effect is mediated. Here they show that reduced pyruvate dehydrogenase (PDH) activity lowers ...

A mob of men allegedly assaulted a 38-year-old woman in Bengaluru after her husband filed a complaint against her at a local mosque over a domestic dispute. The incident that took place outside ...

On October 23, 1923, Hinton—a patent attorney—was awarded the first of a series of U.S. patents for his “jungle gym,” and the monkey bars were born. These days, hardly anyone is aware of ...

A Johannesburg girl swears at a monkey for stealing her cereal bars. A monkey eating a cereal bar/TikTok Screenshot/kikipieeeee17 In true South African fashion, our favourite furry troublemakers ...

Apr. 15, 2025 — Platforms such as iNaturalist and eBird encourage people to observe and document nature, but how accurate is the ecological data that they collect? A new study shows that citizen ...