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 ...

King of The Troop ― Japanese Macaque Macaques can be found all across Japan. We followed a troop on a small island in the country's northeast and discovered some amazing greeting rituals and ...

Officials say they have recaptured the final four monkeys who escaped two months ago from a South Carolina compound that breeds them for medical research YEMASSEE, S.C. -- Authorities in South ...

This story appears in the November 2014 issue of National Geographic magazine. The Barbary macaque is a monkey of many distinctions. It is the only primate, other than humans, north of the Sahara ...