Sailors and civilians at a naval base near the Japanese capital have been told to keep their distance from a wild monkey spotted prowling nearby. A “Monkey Warning” posted Monday by Naval Air Facility ...

There've been at least 58 attacks on people since July 8. It's so bad that the city of Yamaguchi has created a special unit to hunt and tranquilize the animals. Reading time 2 minutes In just the past ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Seven month-old Punch, a macaque monkey who was abandoned by his mother shortly after birth, sits with a stuffed orangutan toy at ...

In the past week, Punch—the baby Japanese snow monkey who was reportedly abandoned by his mother and was being raised by zoo staff—has become an unlikely international celebrity. The tiny macaque, ...

Game without rewards: Monkeys played a touchscreen hide-and-seek game for up to 100 trials without food incentives, showing strong curiosity-driven engagement. Goldilocks principle: They favored ...

Local authorities in Japan's Yamaguchi city said Monday they are turning to tranquilizer guns to confront marauding monkeys that have injured 42 people in recent weeks. Japanese macaques are seen ...

Images of him being bullied by his enclosure-mates, retreating to safety and clinging to a plushie look-alike for comfort won hearts around the world. And his zookeeper has told CNN that the seemingly ...

The zoo home of viral baby monkey Punch is responding to public concern about the health of its Japanese macaques, which includes Punch, and the environment where the internet-famous primate lives. In ...

A brief historical timeline of research on the Arashiyama macaques / Michael A. Huffman, Linda M. Fedigan, Paul L. Vasey and Jean-Baptiste Leca -- In search of the phantom monkeys (originally ...

Consumption of fish in monkeys has been thought of to be a rare occurrence, potentially even happening accidentally. However, through fecal studies of Japanese macaques in the Kamikochi area, evidence ...

Wildlife photographer Atsuyuki Ohshima captured a rare interaction between a macaque and a deer. The photographer says the macaque took a ride on the deer just for fun. The photo is recognized in the ...