As dengue surges globally, an Indian vaccine candidate has entered the final stage of testing, raising hopes for one of the world's first single-dose shots against the deadly mosquito-borne disease.

A Japanese macaque named Punch has gone viral. A biologist explains how his journey from abandonment to social integration ...

Punch, the seven-month-old Japanese macaque whose attachment to a stuffed orangutan toy has made him a viral sensation, is at the center of a growing debate over primate welfare.

A urinalysis shows that these apes ingest significant amounts of alcohol, providing new clues to how alcohol influences the animals’ behavior ...

Like viral sensation Punch and his orange stuffed orangutan, Project Chimps has a resident that can't get enough of her Grinch toys, the sanctuary's executive director says.

The urine of chimpanzees contains high levels of alcohol byproduct, most likely because the chimps regularly gorge themselves on fermented fruit, according to a new paper published in the journal ...

Fecal analyses and necropsies suggest a fire-footed rope squirrel was the source of a 2023 mpox outbreak among sooty ...

Aleksey Maro knows far more than he cares to know about the urination habits of chimpanzees. But if you want to measure the alcohol intake of chimps in a Ugandan rain forest, where a breathalyzer is ...

Two major changes to pet ownership laws are coming in with dog walkers facing unlimited fines while some pet owners will need ...

The initial finding dates all the way back to 1947, when someone discovered that people associated some word-like sounds with ...

The cost of a single monkey exceeds the average annual salary in China and approaches a pandemic-era spike amid growth in drug licensing deals A surge in drug research in China has driven the cost of ...

Biologists have debated the reason why Homo sapiens evolved a prominent lower jaw, but this unique feature may actually be a ...