And a recent study found subtle but fascinating differences in the behaviour-emotion connection in humans and monkeys.

Your recent editorial, “Primate research faces extinction,” makes two points: that the Japanese macaque, Macaca fuscata, may be an endangered species, and that its use for research purposes by ...

Now a team of researchers at Kyoto University has led a study on six Japanese macaques living in ... together with a gray ambiguous button, the researchers were able to estimate each monkey's ...

By using this self-scratching activity as a behavioral indicator of stress, a study on wild female Japanese macaques has provided a novel and counter-intuitive finding: females exhibit higher ...

The Takasakiyama Natural Zoological Garden in Oita welcomed a baby “Nihonzaru” (Japanese macaque) on April 21, the first to be born this year. The newborn male macaque was named “Dekopin ...