These monkeys keep trying to mate with deer—scientists have a few theories why
Two different groups of macaques have been spotted in Japan mounting sika deer. The behavior could be part of a shared ...
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The Monkey Who Went Into the Cold
This story appears in the February 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine ... The golden snub-nosed monkey is one of five related species—remnants of once widespread populations whose ...
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A Monkey That Knows No Bounds
This story appears in the August 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine. In India monkey business takes on a whole new meaning. Hanuman langurs are trained in New Delhi to scare off aggressive ...
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Howler Monkeys
Howlers are New World monkeys found in tropical Central and South America. They are aptly named for their cacophonous cries. When a number of howlers let loose their lungs in concert, often at ...
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Woolly monkeys
What is a woolly monkey? An animal called a woolly monkey seems like it should live in the frozen north, not the sweltering Amazon Basin. But the thick coat of fur covering these large primates ...
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For These Monkeys, It’s a Fight for Survival
If it weren’t for a cheeky monkey named Naruto, who, as the story goes, stole a photographer’s camera in an Indonesian park and snapped a selfie, crested black macaques might still be ...
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Where the World’s Only Grass-Eating Monkeys Thrive
The monkeys didn’t look up as we waded through ... from what we’re about to throw their way. Photographer and National Geographic Grantee Trevor Beck Frost finds joy in places “where ...
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Find Out What Turns a Monkey On
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 ...
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Circus-like performances by snow monkeys in Japan contradict their long-revered status
This story appears in the March 2020 issue of National Geographic magazine. The monkeys wore soccer uniforms. Six Japanese macaques standing erect on leashes obediently kicked the ball up and down ...
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Monkeys of Morocco
This story appears in the November 2014 issue of National Geographic magazine. The Barbary macaque is a monkey of many distinctions. It is the only primate, other than humans, north of the Sahara ...
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Island Ark: a threatened African treasure
This story appears in the August 2008 issue of National Geographic magazine. Voice of a forest, the red-eared monkey is the most abundant of Bioko Island’s 11 primate species. At least 12,000 ...