In November, news outlets worldwide covered the story of 43 monkeys escaping from a South Carolina nonhuman primate facility.

But Westergaard's company has come under scrutiny from a federal lawmaker who criticized the lab for negligence and alleged the laboratory has performed harmful experiments on monkeys for years.

Dr Julia Baines, science policy adviser for animal campaign group, PETA UK said: "PETA calls shame on the Ministry of Defence for conducting archaic and appallingly cruel experiments on monkeys ...

White-faced capuchin monkeys in Costa Rica who experienced more intense physiological responses to mild droughts were more ...

By neglecting to impose a time or monkey limit on the experiment, the infinite monkey theorem essentially contains its own cheat code. Dr. Woodcock, on the other hand, opted for a semblance of ...

Kawai's first experiment demonstrated that monkeys exhibited an immediate response to images of snakes but not to images of salamanders, implying a specific fear of snakes. On the basis of this ...

Once found in the jungles of Africa, researchers in South America have now discovered links tying these extinct primates to the continent—painting an incredible story of survival against the odds.

Swell. A few years ago we were promised experiments that would effect the brain would never be done in mice. They were right. It was done in monkeys! My friend, the bioethicist William Hurlbut has ...

"We condemn the experiments in the strongest terms." Reacting to the NYT report about the monkey experiments, VW tweeted on Saturday that it "explicitly distances itself clearly from all forms of ...

If people carried out those experiments without a license they would be prosecuted for animal cruelty. Now I volunteer at a monkey sanctuary. There are three monkeys at the sanctuary who were sent ...