Monkey

Viral baby monkey Punch finds girlfriend

Clips show Punch leaning in for gentle face-to-face touches. Viewers have described these as “kisses.”

A baby Japanese macaque named Punch sits next to a stuffed orangutan at Ichikawa City Zoo, in Ichikawa, Chiba Prefecture, Japan, February 19, 2026.
Monkey rescued in Israel after illegal wildlife trafficking probe.

Monkey rescued in Israel after illegal wildlife trafficking probe

A baby Japanese macaque named Punch sits next to a stuffed orangutan at Ichikawa City Zoo, in Ichikawa, Chiba Prefecture, Japan, February 19, 2026.

Punch the baby macaque opens up to troop mates

Punch, a Japanese macaque who was abandoned at birth

A psychologist explains: What can Punch the monkey and his doll teach us?


Doctors detect first case of monkeypox in Israel

The Health Ministry announced Friday night that it would investigate the monkeypox case.

 A section of skin tissue, harvested from a lesion on the skin of a monkey, that had been infected with monkeypox virus

Cotton-Top Tamarin monkey twins born in Dubai conservatory

The Green Planet is Dubai's only in-door rainforest and works to conserve Cotton-top Tamarins.

Newborn Cotton-top Tamarin twins in Dubai

Is climate change forcing herbivorous species to turn on each other?

Chimpanzee gang seen attacking, eating gorilla infants for first time ever

Male mountain gorilla from the Mukiza group is seen at Bwindi National Park near the town of Kisoro

Jerusalem Biblical Zoo welcomes birth of rare Javan langur monkey

Javan langur numbers have been declining due to deforestation and exotic animal hunting and trafficking.

Saffron (L) and Liz care for the newly born baby Javan langur monkey at the Jerusalem Biblical Zoo.

Nazi monkey, goats main attraction at Russian state-run circus

The act was commissioned by the Russian Orthodox Church, who cited a 2020 amendment exempting them from the 2014 blanket ban on Nazi imagery.

Nazi Swastika

Crowdsourcing NGO purchases 700 acres in Brazil, Kenya for conservation

This year, for the first time, TiME will acquire two plots of land in a single year: 500 acres in Brazil's Atlantic forest and 200 acres in the Dakatcha woodland in Kenya.

Northern brown howler monkey

J&J starts human study of COVID-19 vaccine after promising monkey data

"This gives us confidence that we can test a single-shot vaccine in this epidemic and learn whether it has a protective effect in humans," Dr. Paul Stoffels, J&J's chief scientific officer

Bottles labeled "Vaccine" stand near medical syringe in front of "Coronavirus COVID-19" display (illustrative)

Police arrest three young men suspected of stealing expensive monkey

Police opened an investigation earlier this week after receiving a disappearance report for a expensive monkey, apparently worth thousands of shekels, from a zoo in Kiryat Motzkin.

The monkey that was stolen from the Kiryat Motzkin zoo

Monkeys develop short-term immunity to coronavirus, Chinese study finds

The experiment took place at the Peking Union Medical College in Beijing and used rhesus macaques as test subjects, as they are relatively similar to humans.

MONKEY BUSINESS in the Amazon rainforest.

Monkeys steal coronavirus blood samples in India

"No evidence has been found that monkeys can contract the infection,” Dr. S. K. Garg told Reuters.

Monkeys rest on a boundary wall of the historic Taj Mahal, where U.S. President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump are scheduled to visit, in Agra, India, February 24, 2020