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Close up of a white-footed tamarin

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City slicker monkeys are overweight and have high cholesterol

Urban living means plentiful fruit trees and many sugary snacks for Colombia’s tamarin monkeys – but they pay the price for this unhealthy diet

Chimps engage with experiment

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Well-travelled chimps more likely to pick up tools and innovate

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Gorillas may have evolved a way to beat a cheating berry plant

Monkey holds large stone over nut

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Monkey stone tools in Brazil pre-date discovery of Americas

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Too cute to lose: Saving the rarest mammal from extinction

monkey cage

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Monkey experiments are a necessary evil for better medicine

monkey on finger

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First monkey genetically engineered to have Parkinson’s created

Macaques using stone tools

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‘Monkey archaeology’ reveals macaque’s own Stone Age culture

Two snub-nosed monkeys in a tree, one slumped against a branch

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Monkey seen caring for dying mate then grieving after she dies

A still from the Jungle Book showing Mowgli standing with King Louie in a temple (which the ape fills) with smaller monkeys looking on

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Jungle tales: the real King Louie was the biggest ape of all

Disney's remake of The Jungle Book features an ape of fantastic proportions. This King Louie is more rooted in reality than you might think

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Gigantopithecus: The story of the greatest of the great apes

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21-million-year-old fossil is North America’s first monkey

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Lemur extinctions in Madagascar leave behind doomed orphan trees

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On the trail of some of the world’s rarest monkeys