COLOMBO — Monkeys were expected to be among the chief culprits identified as Sri Lanka carried out a nationwide survey on March 15 of crop-raiding animals. But in a small village near the Sinharaja ...

(Mongabay) For a small village near the Sinharaja Forest Reserve in Sri Lanka, “snow-white monkeys” have become a major tourist attraction. These white monkeys are a color variant of the endangered ...

For a small village near the Sinharaja Forest Reserve in Sri Lanka, “snow-white monkeys” have become a major tourist attraction, reports contributor Malaka Rodrigo for Mongabay. These white monkeys ...

Play in nonhuman animals (animals) is a hot topic and there is much on-going comparative research about why play has evolved and how various animals engage in this vital activity (please see, for ...

At least 10 endangered primates, including seven Phayre's Langurs (Trachypithecus phayrei) and three Spectacled Langurs (Semnopithecus entellus), have died of electrocution since May 2024 in ...

Monkeys that adopted an urban lifestyle in India are mostly left-handed – in contrast to humans and many other primates that live on the ground. The findings clash with long-standing claims that ...

Research has shown that these traditional forest-dwelling monkeys assume human-like pleading behavioural gestures while foraging around people, with gestures that involve embracing people’s legs and ...

Female dominance hierarchies form as a result of individual differences in resource holding potential, social processes such as winner-loser effects or coalitions, and ecological conditions that favor ...

Asian leaf-eating monkeys cannot taste natural sugars and show no preference for foods flavored with sugars, a new study has found. While these monkeys have the sweet-taste receptor genes needed to ...

In the elegant neighborhoods of central New Delhi, monkeys perch on water tanks, prance on the balustrades of the manicured homes of government VIPs and sift through garbage bins. The horde seems only ...