A key congressional committee wants federal health officials to justify the continued breeding of primates on Morgan Island, a secluded South Carolina barrier island that is home to more than 3,000 ...
Free-ranging monkeys may be causing long-term environmental damage on Morgan Island, an isolated barrier island the state owns and has used for decades as a primate breeding ground, according to a new ...
A recent study on chimpanzees in Taï National Park in Côte d'Ivoire, West Africa, revealed that chimpanzees are losing traditions of male mating gestures. This coincides with declining chimpanzee ...
Washington, DC—The Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) is deeply concerned by the recent announcement that Safer Human Medicine (SHM)—the company behind a massive monkey-breeding facility planned in ...
Too big to fail? OHSU says would cost more than $100 million to close its primate center. (Mike Perrault) For years, animal rights activists have argued that Oregon Health & Science University should ...
In truth, it is not a paradox. The animals involved all seem perfectly eager participants in heterosexual behaviour, as well, so their reproduction is not compromised. It is, though, a puzzle—for ...
A new study suggests humans belong in an elite “league of monogamy,” ranking closer to beavers and meerkats than to ...
LEON, Fl. (WALB) - The North Florida Wildlife Center announced the birth of two endangered primates. They are a ring-tailed lemur named Zava, and one Cotton-Topped Tamarin named Echo! According to the ...