When one member of a subgroup mastered the task, the others quickly imitated them, with the result that 57.5% of the monkeys managed to retrieve the food reward. In the smaller, closer-knit groups ...

A new Donkey Kong platformer asks profound questions. What if ape hit? What if ape hit real hard, break stuff?

It can support a spider monkey’s full body weight and allows them to hang onto branches, freeing their hands so they can climb, forage, and eat. This animal’s diet consists mostly of fruits ...

On a nine-day tour of sarumawashi culture, I saw a range of productions and visited a bar in Utsunomiya, nearly two hours north of Tokyo, where monkeys serve cold beers and warm hand towels and ...