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Escaped lab monkeys in Mississippi aren’t sick—but still risky

On October 28, 2025, a transport truck carrying research monkeys met with an accident near the Louisiana-Mississippi state ...

Monkey branching in relationships: The psychology behind it and its impact

LifeStance Health reports on monkey branching, a harmful relationship behavior involving forming new connections while still ...

2nd monkey that escaped from overturned truck gunned down in Mississippi, 1 more still on the loose

The Jasper County Sheriff’s Department originally warned locals that the monkeys were all infected with COVID, hepatitis C, ...
Yahoo

Scientists sound alarm over behavior observed in endangered monkey species: '[It could] push them to extinction'

A recent study out of Bangladesh confirms a concerning trend in monkey behavior, potentially leading to the extinction of two species of langurs: Phayre's langurs and capped langurs. Mongabay reported ...

Mississippi mom guns down monkey that escaped from overturned truck to protect her children: ‘I did what any other mother would do’

A Mississippi mom shot dead one of the aggressive monkeys that escaped from an overturned truck last week to protect her young children.
The New York Times

This Was Odd: These Monkeys Kidnapped Babies From Another Species.

Male capuchin monkeys on a Panamanian island were documented carrying around infant howler monkeys for no clearly discernible reason. By Elizabeth Landau Capuchin monkeys don’t generally hang out with ...
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Crows and monkeys show mental shortcuts when judging numbers

For centuries, humans have assumed that our thinking errors set us apart from the rest of the animal kingdom. From misjudging ...
insider.si.edu

Spider monkeys : behavior, ecology, and evolution of the genus Ateles / edited by Christina J. Campbell

Introduction / Christina J. Campbell -- Morphology and evolution of the spider monkey, genus Ateles / Alfred L. Rosenberger ... [et al.] -- The taxonomic status of spider monkeys in the twenty-first ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Capuchin Monkeys Caught on Camera ‘Abducting’ Baby Howler Monkeys in a Strange Tradition Seen for the First Time

A howler monkey infant, only a few days old, clings to a subadult white-faced capuchin monkey as it uses tools. Brendan Barrett / Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior In June 2022, while watching ...
CNN

25 monkeys recovered after dozens escape in South Carolina. Others are ‘jumping back and forth’ near the research facility

Monkey mayhem continues as 18 primates remain on the loose from a research facility in South Carolina. On Wednesday, 43 rhesus macaque primates escaped from the Alpha Genesis Primate Research Center ...