Read by Chetna Pandya from the BBC Radio Drama Company. Legend has it that, many thousands of years ago, there was a Barbary monkey who lived in a huge mango tree in Morocco. Close by there lived ...

Many people said that the money looked like Lord Hanuman. The monkey was seen leaping from one tree to another holding the mace. At times it was seen holding it in his mouth and at other times on ...

Their tree-to-tree locomotion, called brachiation, is how these swingers get around. The spider monkey’s tail is prehensile, which means “capable of grasping.” It is generally longer than ...

An agile youngster climbed to the top of a coconut tree within seconds. Footage shows the resident setting his foot on the base of the 40ft (12m) trunk in Bengkulu, Indonesia. He grabbed his way up by ...

The world’s smallest monkey is called the pygmy marmoset, and it is, predictably, very tiny, just a little scoop of fur. It likes to eat the sticky resin found in tree bark, known as gum ...

The Lod Municipal Hotline received an "unusual report" about a monkey spotted in a tall tree in the center of a residential neighborhood, according to the statement. During a patrol, a municipal ...