LABELLE, Fla. (AP) — Tucked away in Florida’s Hendry County, amid the scrub brush and saw palmetto grasslands just southwest of Lake Okeechobee, are three monkey breeding farms containing thousands of ...

A key congressional committee wants federal health officials to justify the continued breeding of primates on Morgan Island, a secluded South Carolina barrier island that is home to more than 3,000 ...

CHARLESTON — U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace said she supports a shutdown of a federal-owned monkey breeding colony on a South Carolina barrier island but does not want “to see them slaughtered” if the ...

Last November, the day after the election, Daniel Vance was eating lunch in his truck when he noticed something move in the trees across the road. The forecast had predicted thunderstorms in the rural ...

Two more monkeys that escaped last week from a South Carolina research facility were recaptured Tuesday, according to the facility's CEO, bringing the total number of primates caught and returned to ...

A new report is the latest to bolster long-standing allegations that many long-tailed macaques imported into the U.S. for biomedical research were illegally caught from the wild and falsely labeled as ...

This is one of two op-eds published today on the question of whether to close OHSU’s National Primate Research Center. To read the op-ed by OHSU’s chief research officer and the research center ...

The Yemassee Police Department announced that 32 escaped monkeys had been safely recovered as of 6 p.m. on Tuesday, leaving 11 at large. The remaining primates continue to be sighted close to the ...

The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. A baby macaque monkey named Punch has gone viral for his heart-wrenching ...