The disease gets its name from its discovery in monkeys in 1958, but humans are usually thought to get monkeypox from African rodents.

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – The Fort Wayne Children’s Zoo is home to eight different primate species. Sunday, September 1 is International Primate Day. Primates include apes, monkeys, gibbons and lemurs ...

Primates living in Uganda have 97 chemical pollutants in their digestive tract, some of which are linked to hormonal changes in females and young primates. Chemical pollutants have reached every ...

Simple solutions, such as not leaving out food at night, could help to protect non-human primates in Sub-Saharan Africa -- some of which are already struggling because of threats like climate change ...

An obscure family of viruses, already endemic in wild African primates and known to cause fatal Ebola-like symptoms in some monkeys, is "poised for spillover" to humans, according to new University of ...

Conservation Travel Africa is celebrating the continued growth and success of its ethical Primate Volunteer Program in Zimbabwe, with a particular rise in mature and senior volunteers seeking ...

In “ Primate Species Spotlight: The Spot-Nosed Guenon” Global Field Program graduate student Lilija Rapa helps us get to know African monkeys with a in-depth look at the spot-nosed guenon and suggests ...

A family of viruses that causes Ebola-like symptoms in African primate populations is “poised for spillover” to humans, a new study shows. Researchers say these arteriviruses, already a threat to ...

Variability in resource availability is hypothesized to be a significant driver of primate adaptation and evolution, but most paleoclimate proxies cannot recover environmental seasonality on the scale ...