In 2015, on Japan’s forested island of Yakushima, a male macaque jumped up onto the back of a female sika deer and started trying to mate with it. At the time, researchers believed that the male ...

Did you know that some monkeys actually go swimming in the ocean? Meet the crab-eating macaque, a special primate with a ...

males tend to leave at the age of 5 or 6 to find another group in which to mate. This puts the primates at added risk when habitat is broken up, as it is near the town of Valparai, in Tamil Nadu.

Barbary macaque troops are also matriarchal ... but heterosexual sexual access (mate choice) is female-driven and mostly follows the dominance hierarchy, meaning that females prefer males of ...

Rather, the monkey "stayed close to the deer and chased away other male macaques" in a behavior that mirrored the protective practice of mate guarding, the study reports. Aside from the deer ...

The suit, filed Thursday in federal court in Greenbelt, Maryland, alleges that specific captive macaques with names including Beamish, Sam Smith and Guinness in the NIMH lab in Bethesda ...

Low-ranking Japanese macaques (Macaca fuscata), for example, masturbate to keep their sperm fresh for when they get a rare chance to mate. But the questions of when and why masturbation evolved in ...

Macaque Brainnetome Atlas, as a multifaced brain atlas depicting the architecture of the macaque brain, will overcome many limitations of existing atlases, including focusing solely on specific ...

They're monkeys - rhesus macaque monkeys, who've been studied there for over 80 years because 94% of their DNA, is the same as humans. They survived with relative environmental stability until six ...

The primates broke loose from Alpha Genesis in Yemassee, Beaufort County, in South Carolina. The company confirmed that 43 rhesus macaque primates escaped from an enclosure at one of the company's ...

As an ideal model for studying human cognitive function and brain diseases, macaques are highly similar to humans in genetics, physiology, and brain structure. Currently, non-human primates are ...

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