In 1906, a young Congolese man was locked in a cage at the Bronx Zoo and displayed alongside an orangutan. He was not the first. The United States government had been transporting indigenous people ...

Punch, the monkey that went viral after being abandoned by his mother and found a friend in a stuffed animal, has a ...

The internet fell in love with Punch the monkey and his stuffed orangutan — now fans are melting over videos of him kissing his new girlfriend Momo-chan ...

Picture two ancient apes in a lush African forest, gently pressing their mouths together, not for romance, but as a primal bond. Fast forward 21 milli.

An animal rescue organisation has shown off its adorable work with orangutan mums in time for Mother’s Day. An orangutan ...

Images of him being bullied by his enclosure-mates, retreating to safety and clinging to a plushie look-alike for comfort won hearts around the world. But finally, Punch the monkey is fitting in.

Hand-raised in an artificial environment immediately after his birth in July, the small, dark-furred macaque is gradually acclimatising, the zoo said, no longer clutching the plushie all the time.

From tool-using chimpanzees to puzzle-solving capuchins, the primate world is packed with surprising brainpower. But how do the planet’s cleverest monkeys and apes really compare with human intelligen ...

If your influencer goal is Stanley sympathy, IKEA empathy or Sephora x Tabasco surprise, are you using the right influencer to reach it? Two years ago, every brand on the planet wanted to be Stanley.

Internet culture has spent decades turning zoo residents and household pets into global celebrities, and the phenomenon shows no signs of slowing down. Early in 2026, a tiny Japanese macaque named ...

Whether it’s a canary’s chirp or a treefrog’s croak, humans tend to prefer many of the same sounds that animals do themselves, a new study finds ...