The Fish and Wildlife Service last October rejected a petition to provide federal protections for the monkeys.
The long-tailed macaque and pig-tailed macaque are now endangered in the wild according to the IUCN Red List, which says exports for monkey research are partially to blame. Dan is a News Editor at The ...
Hamilton Centre MP Matthew Green and McMaster University researcher Tracy Prowse have joined Canadian researchers and PETA in calls for the federal government to halt the importation of long-tailed ...
Approval for Sharavathy Pumped Storage Project in Western Ghats raises concerns over environmental impact on wildlife habitat ...
That’s one of the riddles in the heated debate over whether the long-tailed macaque—the lab monkey most commonly used in drug development—should be further protected as a species facing the ...
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 ...
A chonky long-tailed macaque stealthily took two bananas from a child's backpack in a stroller at the Singapore Zoo. The ...
Lopburi, a city in central Thailand, was once known for its playful macaque monkeys, which charmed both tourists and locals. However, over the years, the long-tailed macaque population exploded ...
KOCHI: An increase in human interaction is posing a threat to the already endangered lion-tailed macaque. The primate, endemic to the Western Ghats, is classified as endangered on the IUCN Red List.