Monkey News
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By AFP
New Delhi -
A baby died after a monkey snatched it from its mother's arms, Indian police investigating the incident in the city of Agra, home to the Taj Mahal, said on Thursday.
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By AFP
New Delhi -
Indian police say a 16-day-old baby boy believed to have been snatched by a monkey has been found drowned in a well.
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Hard rock group Brand of Julez delivers on their new lyric video for their latest single "Monkey." Digital Journal has the scoop.
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By AFP
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"If nothing is done, this species will disappear within 10 years," warns a poster on Ahmed Harrad's ageing 4x4 showing Morocco's famed Barbary macaque monkey.
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By AFP
A Chinese monkey described as the "king of prophets" has tipped Donald Trump for the US presidency, a tourism park said, after the creature successfully predicted the winner of football's European Championship final earlier this year.
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By AFP
Paris -
For nearly a century the carcass of a small, reddish-brown monkey from South America gathered dust in a windowless backroom of the American Natural History Museum in New York City.
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By AFP
Pune -
Indian authorities said Wednesday they had arrested five men over the kidnapping of a monkey after video footage emerged of a distressed primate being bundled into the boot of a car.
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A light-hearted look at the odd events happening in the world. Today includes a job application gone wrong, a clown fund-raising event, and a look at who won the award for the smelliest shoes in the U.S.
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In a remarkable study, the brain activity of one monkey was used to control the movements of a second, sedated animal. Scientists hope that the method will allow an individual to control a paralyzed body or limb.
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Scientists in the Australian state of Queensland have discovered three new species of a rodent-like marsupial. With the species, the males fornicate until they collapse.
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Berlin -
A new addition recently arrived at Berlin Zoo when Annika, an endangered Javan lutung, gave birth to a baby. However, there was a certain amount of jealousy over the cute little monkey among the females of the family.
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In a recently uploaded video, a monkey effortlessly does push-ups and sit-ups like a total boss. This really gives meaning to "it's so simple even a monkey can do it."
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Tehran -
The Iranian Fars new agency is reporting that Iran successfully launched a live monkey into space on Monday. Fars described the achievement as a major advance in its missile and space program but the news is alarming the West and Israel.
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Toronto -
The well-dressed 'IKEA Monkey', seen ambling around the Toronto IKEA parking lot earlier in December, won't be spending Christmas with his family. Despite his owner's best efforts, he will remain behind bars.
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Toronto -
A monkey dressed in a miniature shearling coat and a diaper was spotted wandering around the parking lot of a Toronto Ikea store on Sunday afternoon.
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A new species of monkey has been discovered according to claims made by scientists. The monkey lives in remote forests located in Congo.
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Tampa -
What does a monkey and Tampa Bay have in common? Well, there's a monkey lurking on the streets of Tampa Bay, a mystery monkey just wanting to play.
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London -
NBC has apologized for featuring an ad with a widely grinning monkey doing gymnastics after airing African American Gabby Douglas's gold winning performance. The debate continues over whether the timing of the ad was deliberate or entirely a mistake.
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A recent study has indicated that monkeys can "read", or at least distinguish real words from a nonsense jumble of letters.
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Memphis -
A video of a monkey performing acrobatics has goes viral after it was uploaded to YouTube along with a description that claims the alpha male white cheeked gibbons was attempting to attack a man seen in the the clip through the glass at the Memphis Zoo.
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San Francisco -
Officials say that a squirrel monkey, named Banana Sam, went missing Friday after vandals had broken into the zoo and cut open two holes in the wire mesh cage and also cut the chain on the perimeter fence.
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Working with capuchin monkeys, a Yale research team managed to teach the primates to use currency and, in doing so, unlocked several mysteries behind human beings' sometimes odd behavior with money.
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Bali -
The illegal primate trade has become big business in Bali, with many being caught in protected habitats, thus threatening the survival of many species.
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Cape Town -
Baboons are raiding kitchens, damaging buildings, throwing things at people and killing animals in South Africa – and sometimes, they’re drunk.
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A monkey and her baby were crossing a busy street in New Delhi, India when the baby was struck by a man on a moped. The helpless animal became the target for a nearby dog.
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A new type of titi monkey has been discovered in the Amazon but it is considered critically endangered due to deforestation and its small population.
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Visitors at the Paignton Zoo in Devon, England were treated to the bizarre sight of a monkey lovingly carrying around a little toad one day.
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When a British woman went to a Thai nature resort to overcome her fear of monkeys, she was viciously attacked by a pack of macaques.
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A couple in Indonesia have been arrested for selling rare Javan langur, also known as the silver-leaf monkey, meat for meatball soup.
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Coined 'Florida's Most Wanted Primate,' the Rhesus Macaque monkey has been on the loose for the last year in Florida, starting to gain mythical status for its exploits, continually eluding capture.
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Javan lutung mother and baby Belgianchoclate
Rhesus Macaque Macaca mulatta in Kinnerasani Wildlife Sanctuary, Andhra Pradesh, India. J.M.Garg
Diana monkey (C. diana) Ikmo-ned
A common squirrel monkey at the Henry Doorly Zoo in Omaha, Nebraska. C.burnett
A capuchin monkey (Cebus Apella) remains in a cage at a primate rehabilitation centre in Peñaflor, 30 km southwest of Santiago, Chile Martin Bernetti, AFP
Rhesus Macaque monkeys in Agra, India. Thomas Schoch
That's definitely the kind of friendship you don't see very often. Cute though!
A pair of black howler monkeys (Alouatta caraya) vocalizing. Steve Washington
Poor Monkey tied to a tree by a chain....Are we on earth to do such nasty things? What a shame!!
Green monkeys have black facial skin with golden-yellow whiskers. Bjørn Christian Tørrissen
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