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Mother rhesus macaque with her baby. Adult male macaques try to maximize their reproductive success by entering into sex with females both in and outside the breeding period. Females prefer to mate with males that are not familiar to them. Outsider males who are not members of the female's own troop are preferred over higher-ranking males.
Ruthless owners of monkeys are torturing their animals on social media for money and “likes”, a study has found.. The content creators physically and mentally abuse macaques getting tens of ...
A wild and unexpected scene unfolded in Beaufort County, South Carolina, as over 40 rhesus macaque monkeys made a dash for freedom from a research facility. Residents have been urged to keep their ...
Videos of monkeys being tortured or abused have been commonly uploaded to social media platforms such as YouTube and Facebook. [1] [4] According to a September 2021–May 2023 study by Asia for Animals’ Social Media Animal Cruelty Coalition (SMACC), videos by pet macaque owners had a total of 12.05 billion views online, with 12 percent of these videos involving intentional physical torture ...
Monkey Thieves (Hindi: बंदर चोर), also known as Rebel Monkeys, is a thirteen-part documentary series produced by National Geographic examining the habits and social interactions of rhesus macaques in the city of Jaipur, located in northwestern India.
“The U.S. Army and NASA have rhesus macaques too,” wrote the book's author, Dario Maestripieri, a behavioral scientist at the University of Chicago, “and for years they trained them to play computer video games to see whether the monkeys could learn to pilot planes and launch missiles.” Research begins in the 1890s
Nearly all (73–100%) captive rhesus macaques are carriers of the herpes B virus. This virus is harmless to macaques, but infections of humans, while rare, are potentially fatal, a risk that makes macaques unsuitable as pets. [19]
Police are on the hunt for 40 monkeys that escaped a research facility in South Carolina, warning local residents to keep their windows and doors shut.. The fugitives are sought by police in ...