In a Facebook post on Thursday, police noted that a monkey captured in ... shared by the police, states rhesus macaques are primarily located in central Florida. Introduced to the state in the ...

Here are the five species you'll find in the state, according to the University of Florida: Rhesus macaque monkeys are the most common in Florida, found at Silver Springs State Park near Ocala.

In the early months of 1936, Miller Park Zoo announced a new addition to it collection: a baby rhesus monkey. The monkey was ...

Rhesus "monkeys are socially complex creatures ... and well-beingAn overview by species (Vol. 2, pp. 457483). Boca Raton, FL: CPR. Schapiro, S. J., & Bushong, D. (1994). Effects of enrichment on ...

One day in late April, a caged rhesus monkey on a tree platform on the shores ... the disease has taken hold in parts of Florida, and hundreds of travel-associated cases have been identified ...

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 ...

Florida Institute of Technology is studying how much spider monkeys at Brevard Zoo act like us. So far, the answers are ...

“I wanted something different, something unusual,” says Michelle Berk, formerly of Palisades, Florida ... wrapped around lamp poles. He had rhesus monkeys leaping from counter to couch.

Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico in 2017, killing more than 3,000 people. It also destroyed 63% of vegetation on Cayo Santiago (also known as Monkey Island), which is home to a population of rhesus ...

Scientists are hoping this new wrinkle will let them create identical rhesus monkeys for medical research. These monkeys are like distant cousins of ours, sharing a fair bit of our DNA ...

Tianming Yang at the Chinese Academy of Sciences and his colleagues trained two rhesus monkeys to play Pac-Man by rewarding them with juice for collecting all the dots in a maze and evading ...

A study published June 21 in Alzheimer’s & Dementia: The Journal of the Alzheimer’s Association shows up to a six-month ...