The intrinsic information-seeking impulse we call curiosity is independent of extrinsic rewards, such as food or mating opportunities. Curiosity is purely the pursuit of understanding the unknown, ...

People’s love of furry animals is having some unexpected effects on the monkeys living in Gibraltar. A study out today shows ...

Ichikawa City Zoo staff utilized a specific replacement object to satisfy the instinctual clinging requirement. Due to an unfortunate situation with a happy ending, Punch the baby macaque monkey has ...

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Researchers said the monkeys have been observed eating soil more frequently, a behavior they said may help the macaques avoid ...

Macaque monkeys in two separate Japanese prefectures have taken the primatology world by storm after they were spotted attempting to mate with Sika deer. The phenomenon, originally observed in a ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Seven month-old Punch, a macaque monkey who was abandoned by his mother shortly after birth, sits with a stuffed orangutan toy at ...