The macaque, now 9 months old, has been attracting tens of thousands of visitors to a small Japanese zoo. He ignores the ...

The intrinsic information-seeking impulse we call curiosity is independent of extrinsic rewards, such as food or mating opportunities. Curiosity is purely the pursuit of understanding the unknown, ...

Ichikawa City Zoo staff utilized a specific replacement object to satisfy the instinctual clinging requirement. Due to an unfortunate situation with a happy ending, Punch the baby macaque monkey has ...

Discovering aggressive macaque monkey behavior caught on camera in jungle ...

Monkeys played a touchscreen game for nearly 100 rounds without rewards, highlighting the powerful role of curiosity in ...

Game without rewards: Japanese macaques played nearly 100 rounds of a touchscreen game despite no food incentives, driven purely by curiosity. Moderate challenge wins: Monkeys consistently chose a ...

Macaque monkeys in two separate Japanese prefectures have taken the primatology world by storm after they were spotted attempting to mate with Sika deer. The phenomenon, originally observed in a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Seven month-old Punch, a macaque monkey who was abandoned by his mother shortly after birth, sits with a stuffed orangutan toy at ...

This photo taken on February 19, 2026 shows a seven month-old male macaque monkey named Punch, who was abandoned by his mother shortly after birth, sitting with a stuffed orangutan toy at Ichikawa ...