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A Burmese python coils around a branch in the Everglades.

How Escaped Pets Took Over Florida

When store-bought animals are released, they may go from pet to pest.

Jessica Leigh Hester August 31, 2018

Researchers posit that Dr. Seuss's Lorax may be based on a real creature, the patas monkey.

Is Dr. Seuss's Lorax Real?

New research suggests the creature is based on a particular monkey that the writer encountered in Kenya.

Cara Giaimo July 26, 2018

The paintings are located in one of the offices at Borås zoo.

'Pierre Brassau' Paintings at Borås Zoo

The art critic claiming that "only an ape could have done this" was in fact right.

The skull of the newly-discovered gibbon.

Found: A Mysterious Extinct Gibbon in an Ancient Chinese Tomb

It's thought the animal may have been kept as a pet.

Natasha Frost June 22, 2018

The mummified monkey in question.

Found: A Mummified Monkey in the Ceiling of a Department Store

Thanks to the sleuths in a Facebook group, we may even know how it got there.

Cara Giaimo April 13, 2018

A Guinea baboon in the Paris zoo.

50 Escaped Baboons Shut Down a Paris Zoo

Precisely how they got out remains a mystery.

Natasha Frost January 26, 2018

No sand on this tomato.

Gorillas Don't Need to Be Taught to Clean Their Food

Sandy apples? No problem.

Anne Ewbank December 5, 2017

A bowl of monkey gland sauce ready to be spread across red meat, poultry, or fish.

Monkey Gland Sauce

No primates were harmed in the making of this South African steak sauce.

A female olive baboon carrying a juvenile. In baboon society, all members help make decisions, even decidedly non-alpha duos like this.

Mapping the Hidden Movements of Baboon Troops

What researchers have learned from tracking 57,000 individual "baboon decisions."

Cara Giaimo September 25, 2017

Macaques use stone tools to crack open shellfish.

We're Not the Only Primate With Unsustainable Eating Habits

Monkeys using tools in Thailand might be driving their prey to extinction.

Kelsey Kennedy September 18, 2017

Let's try to scratch it out first.

Scratching When You're Stressed Might Help Keep You Out of a Scrap

Is there anything monkeys can't teach us?

Vittoria Traverso September 11, 2017

Heidelberg, Germany

Heidelberg Bridge Monkey

It's good luck to be mocked by this monkey.

Happy Woodlawn Pet Cemetery.

Aurora, Ontario

Happy Woodlawn Pet Cemetery

Canada's first pet cemetery is now abandoned.

A selection of the images shown to the monkeys in the trial.

Rhesus Monkeys See Faces in Objects, Just Like We Do

Yes, that coffee does look a bit like a face.

Natasha Frost August 28, 2017

Permanently Closed

Johns Creek, Georgia

Monkey Massacre Memorial

The statues commemorate the legendary mass killing of escaped circus monkeys.

Arizona's (No Longer) Mysterious Monkey Farm

Some guys with drones inspired a day or two of wild speculation, though.

Erik Shilling July 6, 2017

A Brief Encounter With Some Angry Monkeys in Florida

It was caught on tape.

Erik Shilling July 5, 2017

Watch This Adorable Baby Macaque Roll a Snowball Down a Hill

Making snowballs is part of these Japanese snow monkeys' culture.

Lauren Young December 16, 2016