In humans, personality similarity between partners can lead to better compatibility and well-being. Is the same true for ...

SAN ANTONIO, May 13, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- On May 5, 2025, the Captive Primate Safety Act (H.R. 3199/S. 1594) — legislation that would ban the private ownership of primates in the United States — was ...

Bonobo chimpanzees are unique among primates because they do not kill other bonobos. … They still showed increased alertness ...

The USDA has cited the University of Louisiana at Lafayette New Iberia Research Center for allegedly transporting monkeys to ...

The cardiovascular health of captive primates has emerged as a critical field of study, as these animals display a range of unique structural and functional cardiac changes. Research has revealed that ...

Washington, DC—The Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) endorses yesterday’s reintroduction of the Captive Primate Safety Act (CPSA), which would end the cruel and dangerous pet primate trade in the United ...

The demand for pet primates in the U.S. fuels a brutal underground market. But a new bill in Congress aims to change that by creating a national ban on privately owning and breeding these animals.

Violeta is an endangered Mexican spider monkey, about 18 months old, who was poached from the wild and smuggled into California, where it's illegal to keep primates as pets. (Oakland Zoo) On a recent ...

On a recent day at the Oakland Zoo's animal hospital, across the bay from San Francisco, an endangered Mexican spider monkey leaps onto tree branches, climbs across platforms and swings on ropes in a ...