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 ...

The company confirmed that 43 rhesus macaque primates escaped from an enclosure at one of the company's facilities. The Yemassee Police Department said in November that traps with bait were set up ...

The monthslong search for 43 rhesus macaque monkeys that escaped from a South Carolina research facility an hour west of Charleston came to a close Friday after the last of the fugitive primates ...

More information: Annika Freudiger et al, Estimating realized relatedness in free-ranging macaques by inferring identity-by-descent segments, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2025 ...

The team successfully applied their new tool to a free-ranging population of rhesus macaques. The results show that even for low-quality sequencing data, this method can accurately determine ...

Most were lured back with food and given peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and "monkey biscuits" — a high-protein Purina Monkey Chow specially formulated for rhesus macaques.The facility breeds ...

Primate species in research include rhesus macaques, long-tailed (a.k.a. crab-eating or cynomolgus ... and to escape and feel safe from predators (in the laboratory, humans can be perceived as ...

Keywords: aggression, animal welfare, dominance, environmental enrichment, play, rhesus macaques, swimming Swimming has been ... or to escape from predators (talapoin monkeys: Gautier-Hion 1973).

The team successfully applied their new tool to a free-ranging population of rhesus macaques. The results show that even for low-quality sequencing data, this method can accurately determine ...