Out of every 100 animals smuggled, only 10 survive." Security personnel seize surprising creature in suspicious parcel: 'At ...

Zika, a mosquito-borne virus first identified in 1947 in a Rhesus macaque monkey, continues to perplex scientists in many ways nearly 80 years later. While many people with a Zika virus infection ...

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 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 ...

The rhesus macaque monkeys, all females, made a break for it after police say an employee did not fully lock their enclosure at Alpha Genesis, a facility that breeds them for medical research — ...

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 ...