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’s low ...

Marauding monkeys won’t face slingshots anymore in the historic Thai city of Lopburi, where they have been rounded up and sterilised after turning rampant over the past four years. Before COVID-19 ...

Most of the time, troops of macaque monkeys live together in harmony. However, in macaque societies, dominance and troop rank determine everything from access to food to mating rights. So, it’s ...