Of two hunky monkeys, which would you say has the most sex appeal? That’s easier to answer if you’re a rhesus macaque (Macaca mulatta)—or Constance Dubuc, an evolutionary biologist at the ...

For the last half-century, the rhesus macaque, or the rhesus monkey ... or being used in pet industries, among other forms of abuse. Now, inexplicably, those protections have been weakened.

Researchers studied the impacts of a hurricane on a population of Rhesus macaques on an island off Puerto Rico. Temperatures are often around 40C so shade is a precious resource for macaques ...