In 2015, on Japan’s forested island of Yakushima, a male macaque jumped up onto the back of a female sika deer and started trying to mate with it. At the time, researchers believed that the male ...

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 ...

“On top of biting visitors, they have been climbing up and pushing stones down, damaging temples,” he said, adding that the ...

Wild monkeys egged on by YouTubers have been rampaging at Cambodia's famed Angkor Wat complex, attacking tourists, wrecking temple stonework and ...