An orphaned monkey that was shunned by his mother at a Japanese zoo is finally being accepted by his peers. Images of Punch, who lives in Ichikawa City Zoo, near Tokyo, went viral last month after he ...

This social behavior might reveal the evolutionary roots of traits that underlie pet-keeping in humans, scientists say, from ...

Thirteen million years ago, a medium-sized monkey known for guarding its territory among the treetops with a fearsome "howl" started doing something new. This monkey, one of the oldest known ancestors ...

We aren’t the only animals that like to take care of other species. A new study finds that the roots of keeping a pet may ...