Many people assume baboons and mandrills are the same animal because both belong to the Old World monkey family and share ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Ellen Trout Zoo opened its new habitat for African primates, including lemurs and De Brazza's monkeys, on Friday, ensuring the ...

A new study challenges the long-held idea that early primates began in warm tropical forests. Fossil and climate evidence ...

Most people imagine our early primate ancestors swinging through lush tropical forests. But new research shows that they were braving the cold. As an ecologist who has studied chimpanzees and lemurs ...

Chicago-based Goettsch Partners, working with exhibition designer Stantec, completed the James & Elizabeth Bramsen Tropical Forests, a $66 million, three-acre primate habitat at Brookfield Zoo Chicago ...

The Palm Beach Zoo in West Palm Beach, home to towering trees, tigers and lemurs, unveiled a new specially designed habitat for two sloths and three endangered squirrel-sized monkeys called golden ...

The Washu Project helps farmers in northern Ecuador conserve forests and save forest-dwelling species by combining scientific research, environmental education, and strengthening communities. The ...

We've seen it happen. For example, a visit to the Ouzoud waterfalls in Morocco's High Atlas led to an encounter with a group of nearby tourists feeding chips—supplied by the tour guide—to some waiting ...

Brown spider monkeys (Ateles hybridus) are some of the world’s most threatened primates, as deforestation has razed about 85% of their habitat in Colombia. With monkey populations living in patches of ...

According to the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, the Sumatran orangutan is on the critically endangered list. This distinction means that the species faces an extremely high risk ...