Delhi forest department to plant fruit trees for 25,000 relocated monkeys in AsolaThe Forest Department takes action at Asola Wildlife Sanctuary. They are planting fruit and foliage trees. This supports the growing monkey...
05 May, 2025, 02.52 PM IST
Diluting the Wildlife (Protection) Act for rhesus macaques will be devastating for this Indian speciesRhesus macaques, once protected in India, now face weakened legal safeguards. Captured from the wild, they endure horrific transport and ex...
13 Dec, 2024, 11.33 PM IST
Rise of Planet of Apes in US! 43 young female monkeys escape South Carolina research facility, Police issue warning43 monkeys escaped a research facility in South Carolina. The monkeys escaped after a worker forgot to secure their enclosure. Authorities ...
08 Nov, 2024, 09.30 AM IST
40 monkeys escape South Carolina research facility; residents advised to secure homes40 monkeys escaped from Alpha Genesis' South Carolina research facility, prompting police to warn residents to keep doors and windows close...
08 Nov, 2024, 01.52 AM IST
Older, wiser, pickier about hanging outNew research shows that older rhesus macaques and female red deer benefit from being less sociable. They form fewer social connections and ...
01 Nov, 2024, 08.00 AM IST
Experimental mRNA vaccine for HIV shows promise in animalsThe research, which was carried out by scientists at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), Moderna and other i...
09 Dec, 2021, 09.52 PM IST
How Rhesus macaque monkeys were tracked for Covaxin trial!Dr Balram Bhargava says that it is important to remember that the heroes of Covaxin's success story are not just human ones as 20 monkeys a...
14 Nov, 2021, 05.40 PM IST
Order to cull Himachal Pradesh’s ‘vermin’ monkeys draws activists’ ireUnion environment ministry has declared monkeys (Rhesus Macaque) as ‘vermin’ in Himachal Pradesh, allowing local authorities to cull this a...
19 Jul, 2019, 08.57 AM IST
Will Earth become a planet of the apes?Chinese scientists have recently created a transgenic monkey whose DNA has the human gene.
12 Apr, 2019, 09.24 AM IST
Monkeys stone man to death, cops in fix as family wants FIRA bunch of monkeys stoned a 72-year-old to death in Tikri village of Baghpat in Uttar Pradesh when he went to collect wood for havan
20 Oct, 2018, 11.02 AM IST
- Scientists decode possible origin of human speech
New York, July 23 (IANS) Researchers have discovered neural circuits in the brains of rhesus macaque monkeys that could represent a common ...
23 Jul, 2018, 06.02 PM IST
- Scratching helps boost social bonding in monkeys
London, Sep 11 (IANS) Scratching can be a sign of stress in many primates, including humans, and may may have evolved as a communication to...
11 Sep, 2017, 05.52 PM IST
- Social ties boost life expectancy in monkeys: Study
London, May 17 (IANS) Large families and strong social ties help monkeys to live longer, new research has said.
17 May, 2017, 02.15 PM IST
SC to hear plea seeking quashing of Centre's culling orderThe Centre had issued notifications permitting the three states to kill the animals on the ground that they were posing danger to human lif...
16 Jun, 2016, 10.48 AM IST
Supreme Court to hear plea against declaring Nilgai, monkeys as verminsA plea has been filed in Supreme Court seeking quashing and interim stay of three notifications of the Centre declaring Nilgai, monkey and ...
15 Jun, 2016, 02.31 PM IST
If the descendants can ram six-wheeled mobile devices, so can the ancestorsHowever, even though much like the airport incident, the monkey-jacked bus also slammed into a couple of other vehicles, the simian cannot ...
24 Dec, 2015, 03.31 AM IST
- Different species to share digs for the first time
Initiating changes proposed in the master plan, zoo authorities have put nilgai, sambhar deer, black buck, spotted deer and barking deer to...
02 Jul, 2012, 06.00 PM IST