His mother, Kamaria, was a first-time mother and did not know how to properly care for him.

It's no secret that humans and primates share many common traits (and the vast majority of our DNA), but some monkey behaviors still leave scientists baffled. One of these behaviors was seen as ...

Ichikawa City Zoo staff utilized a specific replacement object to satisfy the instinctual clinging requirement. Due to an unfortunate situation with a happy ending, Punch the baby macaque monkey has ...

Observations of Coiba’s tool-using immature capuchin monkeys show them carrying abducted infant howler monkeys. What is the reason for this behavior? Vanessa Crooks Caught in the act! Capuchin monkeys ...

Unless you've been living under a rock, you know that the entire internet is currently obsessed with Punch, the 7-month-old baby macaque monkey who was abandoned by his mother at birth. Zookeepers at ...

A group of male capuchin monkeys kidnapped baby howler monkeys – a different species – on a small island of Panama. Video shows the howler monkeys clinging to the male capuchin monkeys’ backs, but the ...

Some baby monkeys have different color hair than their parents. A number of langur species, including silvered leaf langurs, François’ langurs, and spectacled langurs, have dark grey to black hair as ...

SAN DIEGO -- A Texas man was sentenced in federal court Friday for smuggling six Mexican baby spider monkeys into the U.S. Sarmad Ghaled Dafar of Houston was sentenced to four months in custody and ...

A Texas man was busted for trafficking vulnerable Mexican baby spider monkeys, who were too young to be separated from their mothers, into San Diego and selling them on Facebook. Sarmad Ghaled Dafar, ...

On an island in Panama, a fad that one researcher called "viscerally disturbing" has recently taken off among a group of young male monkeys. These adolescents and juveniles have started to kidnap the ...

After being rejected by his mother and bullied by other monkeys, a baby Japanese macaque named Punch captured the internet's attention for his heartbreaking bond with a stuffed orangutan toy. Featured ...

Due to an unfortunate situation with a happy ending, Punch the baby macaque monkey has gone viral online. Punch is a baby monkey who lives at the Ichikawa City Zoo in Japan and was abandoned by his ...