BEIJING — A lavish four-hour Lunar New Year show televised to millions across China on Thursday night set off a flood of indignation with its caricatures featuring blackface and African men in animal ...

Woodland Park Zoo officials aren't sure if Riktus the monkey will mate with his new exhibit partner, Tamani. But they do know Riktus can jump. The 12-year-old male DeBrazz's guenon, a type of African ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The Louisville Zoo is welcoming some new additions to its African Outpost exhibits. Meet 8-year-old Nali (pronounced like nah-lee) and her daughters 3-year-old Ate (pronounced like ...

Researchers in Cameroon are aiming to use the red colobus monkey (Piliocolobus spp.) as both a standard-bearer for conservation and a barometer of forest health. Red colobus are tree-dwelling monkeys ...

WASHINGTON -- The ancestry of the virus that caused the AIDS epidemic has been traced to two strains of a virus found in monkeys in Africa. The viruses probably passed into chimpanzees when the apes ...