The hormone oxytocin appears to increase social behaviors in newborn rhesus monkeys, according to a study by researchers at the National Institutes of Health, the University of Parma in Italy, and the ...

For years, Florida Tech's Catherine Talbot, an assistant professor of psychology, has worked to understand the sociality of male rhesus monkeys and how low-social monkeys can serve as a model for ...

The 43 rhesus macaque monkeys that escaped a South Carolina medical lab this week are among the most studied animals on the planet. And for more than a century, they have held a mirror to humanity, ...

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Somehow, most of the rhesus macaques living on an island off the coast of Puerto Rico survived Hurricane Maria's devastation. However, their behaviors have dramatically changed since the way they ...

Hard times can sometimes bring people together. For rhesus macaques, a destructive hurricane made their group an altogether friendlier place and helped increase individual survival year over year. “It ...

In 1935, an extraordinary incident unfolded as approximately 175 rhesus monkeys broke free from Frank Buck's Jungle Camp, ...

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