43 female rhesus macaques monkeys have broken out of a research facility in South Carolina, and are currently on the run, prompting the police to go on a chase in their pursuit. The monkeys ...

The 43 rhesus macaque monkeys that escaped a South Carolina medical lab this week are among the most studied animals on the planet. And for more than a century, they have held a mirror to humanity ...

A University of Wisconsin study on anxiety using rhesus macaque monkeys will no longer involve separating the babies from their mothers. Researchers found that monkeys raised without their mothers ...

Of two hunky monkeys, which would you say has the most sex appeal? That’s easier to answer if you’re a rhesus macaque (Macaca mulatta)—or Constance Dubuc, an evolutionary biologist at the ...

Primate species in research include rhesus macaques, long-tailed (a.k.a. crab-eating or cynomolgus) macaques, stump-tailed macaques, pig-tailed macaques, squirrel monkeys, owl monkeys, African green ...