With a bit of training, monkeys can learn to tap along to the beat of music. The findings, published November 27 in the journal Science, suggest that the ability to perceive rhythm may be more common ...

Becky Thompson calls herself a monkey mom. She has lived for six years with Kristi, a 22-year-old capuchin monkey trained to help her with everyday tasks she can no longer perform since a 1981 ...

A lie repeated 1,000 times becomes truth—at least in the eyes of the gullible. Agriculture history is filled with red herrings and snake oil, but the oft-told, outrageous claim of trained monkeys ...

I fostered a capuchin monkey for eight years, and loved every minute of it. But I knew it couldn’t last. I never expected to become a mom . . . to a capuchin monkey. We met at a nonprofit organization ...