Can an animal species that appears to be abundant also be endangered? That’s one of the riddles in the heated debate over whether the long-tailed macaque—the lab monkey most commonly used in drug ...

The image of a lab monkey on the run after a highway crash is powerful enough to stick in the public imagination, even when the full story behind it is Unverified based on available sources. What is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A third and final lab monkey has been found after being on the loose for over a week due to a truck carrying the animals ...

Building on previous efforts to create a platform for the extended study of primate embryos in cell culture, two new reports from the State Key Laboratory of Primate Biomedical Research, Kunming ...

A research monkey is on the loose in Jasper County, Mississippi after a truck carrying the animals crashed. While almost all of the escaped monkeys have been “destroyed,” one remains at large, and ...

The saga of the escaped lab monkeys in Mississippi has taken a more gruesome turn. Over the weekend, a woman encountered one of the escapees and shot it dead. The Associated Press reported Sunday that ...

Booming demand for laboratory animals in China’s pharmaceutical industry is fueling a massive illegal trade in wild-caught monkeys, with thousands of live primates smuggled into the country for use in ...