If you’ve been scrolling through social media lately, you might have come across a small, furry macaque, solemnly lugging a slightly larger orangutan toy with him everywhere he goes. That would be ...

The intrinsic information-seeking impulse we call curiosity is independent of extrinsic rewards, such as food or mating opportunities. Curiosity is purely the pursuit of understanding the unknown, ...

A baby monkey named Punch is struggling to find acceptance in his macaque enclosure in a Japanese zoo, and endeared social media users are fully on his side. Punch, who was abandoned by his mother ...

Punch the Monkey brought the Internet to tears. The baby macaque at the Ichikawa City Zoo in Japan was abandoned by his mother and bullied by his fellow snow monkeys, leading him to cling to a plush ...