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Monkeys

A female olive baboon carrying a juvenile. In baboon society, all members help make decisions, even decidedly non-alpha duos like this.

Mapping the Hidden Movements of Baboon Troops

What researchers have learned from tracking 57,000 individual "baboon decisions."

Cara Giaimo September 25, 2017

Macaques use stone tools to crack open shellfish.

We're Not the Only Primate With Unsustainable Eating Habits

Monkeys using tools in Thailand might be driving their prey to extinction.

Kelsey Kennedy September 18, 2017

Let's try to scratch it out first.

Scratching When You're Stressed Might Help Keep You Out of a Scrap

Is there anything monkeys can't teach us?

Vittoria Traverso September 11, 2017

Heidelberg's Old Bridge Monkey.

Heidelberg, Germany

Heidelberg Bridge Monkey

It's good luck to be mocked by this monkey.

Happy Woodlawn Pet Cemetery.

Aurora, Ontario

Happy Woodlawn Pet Cemetery

Canada's first pet cemetery is now abandoned.

A selection of the images shown to the monkeys in the trial.

Rhesus Monkeys See Faces in Objects, Just Like We Do

Yes, that coffee does look a bit like a face.

Natasha Frost August 28, 2017

The statues commemorate a legendary 20th-century monkey massacre.

Johns Creek, Georgia

Monkey Massacre Memorial

The statues commemorate the legendary mass killing of escaped circus monkeys.

Arizona's (No Longer) Mysterious Monkey Farm

Some guys with drones inspired a day or two of wild speculation, though.

Erik Shilling July 6, 2017

A Brief Encounter With Some Angry Monkeys in Florida

It was caught on tape.

Erik Shilling July 5, 2017

Watch This Adorable Baby Macaque Roll a Snowball Down a Hill

Making snowballs is part of these Japanese snow monkeys' culture.

Lauren Young December 16, 2016

A macque sits on the Buddha's shoulder.

Tambon Tha Hin, Thailand

Phra Prang Sam Yot

Monkeys lounge around at this 13th century temple.

An angry rhesus macaque.

You Probably Shouldn't Be Worried About This Colony of Herpes-Infected Monkeys in Florida

Still, there's a colony of herpes-infected monkeys in Florida.

Mariana Zapata November 10, 2016

A 1965 stamp depicting cosmonaut Alexey Leonov on the first space walk.

A Whirlwind Tour of Space Race Relics

Places left behind by Americans and Soviets in the race to the stars.

Molly McBride Jacobson August 12, 2016

The culprit.

Monkey Shuts Down Kenya's Power Supply

Or was the poor animal just a fall guy?

Cara Giaimo June 8, 2016

Have You Ever Felt as Good as These Sunbathing Lemurs?

Ah, the sensation of sunlight warming one's belly fur.

Tao Tao Holmes April 8, 2016

The World's Largest Gorillas Are Being Massacred Because of War

Up to 93 percent of Grauer's gorillas have disappeared in two decades.

Erik Shilling April 5, 2016

Brothers Arrested in Attempted Smuggling of 61 Monkeys From Tanzania

One of them owned an "exotic park."

Erik Shilling March 30, 2016

Adam's Bridge

Mannar, Sri Lanka

Adam's Bridge

According to Hindu belief, this shallow island chain was created by a god with an army of monkeys.