Platypus swims in murky water; its distinctive flat bill and webbed feet are visible as it glides smoothly.

Earlier this year, four juvenile spider monkeys smuggled into the US in lunch boxes arrived at a Mississippi zoo, where they ...

Life with baby monkeys is always unpredictable. While changing a diaper, we uncovered something unexpected that left us ...

I think about the Dave Matthews Band's tour bus dumping human excrement on a boat of unsuspecting tourists at least once a ...

On another, I got water in my ear, which turned into an ear infection (at least it happened AFTER my swim at the beach), and ...

Robert Burakoff, MD, MPH, is a board-certified gastroenterologist who serves as vice chair of Ambulatory Services at Lower Manhattan Hospital and professor of medicine at the Weill Cornell Medical ...

Two US tourists caused a stir in Japan after one of them jumped into the monkey enclosure at the Ichikawa City Zoo in Chiba Prefecture while the other filmed. While it wasn’t long before the Japanese ...

In addition, primates are often traumatically taken from their mothers at a young age and kept in poor conditions that do not ...