STORY: In the forests of southern Nigeria, Sugar Ray is enjoying his old age. He's 20 - an elder statesman in drill monkey terms. But his life was nearly cut prematurely short. Clinging to his ...

A mother drill monkey inspects the corpse of her infant son A monkey from a zoo in Europe was recently seen carrying around her baby's corpse for several days after it died. Then she devoured her own ...

Turtle biologists with digital SLR cameras may be on the verge of something extraordinary: Empowering a nation to save endangered monkeys and the idyllic island ecosystem they call home. The very ...

AFI MOUNTAIN DRILL RANCH, Nigeria, April 1 (Reuters) - Sugar Ray is about 20 years old, a venerable age for a drill monkey whose life got off to a tragic start: clinging to his mother's chest as a ...

This is not a drill! Well, technically, it is. Cork’s Fota Wildlife are celebrating a major first for Ireland. On July 18, the popular wildlife park welcomed a brand new endangered male drill monkey, ...

Monkeys called wild drills, already an overhunted species, may see a dramatic population decline if their forest home dries out and vegetation becomes sparser amid warming temperatures, researchers ...