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, ...

Authorities have killed several lab monkeys that escaped from an overturned truck in Mississippi. The rhesus macaques were initially thought to be diseased and dangerous, but that's not necessarily ...

The September death of a macaque in a Legacy Health animal lab has drawn the ire of activists. The macaque died during a Sept. 9 procedure in which an anesthesia machine was used incorrectly. A ...

Believe it or not, there are neurological underpinnings that determine how we perceive our environment and often our perception of others. A publication in the journal Nature Neuroscience describes ...

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Pacing behaviour, the most frequent stereotypic behaviour displayed by laboratory rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) is often used as an indicator of stress. In this study, we investigated how reliable ...

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Biomedical facilities across the nation and worldwide aim to develop cost-effective methods for the reproductive management of macaque breeding groups, typically by housing macaques in large, ...

Scientists have found that social connections influence the brain structure of rhesus macaques. Specifically, the number of grooming partners an individual had predicted the size of brain areas ...