They say that you don’t choose your pets; they choose you. That was certainly true in the case of one young couple traveling through Vietnam when they spotted a tiny baby monkey on the side of the ...

Placing a baby monkey in a human environment may look like fun, but it also sparks deep scientific questions. How do primates respond to new smells, textures, and tools?

Punch, a 7-month-old macaque monkey, had no friends. His mother abandoned him. He wasn’t quite fitting in with the other monkeys at Ichikawa City Zoo, outside Tokyo. The closest thing he had to loved ...