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Tourist behaviour in Western Ghats robbing simians of their foraging skills, hurting forest ecosystem, activists say

The animals are often given food in packaging, which they discard deep inside forests and pollute the natural environment

Urban Menace: Make designated monkey zones

There is a need to create spaces conducive to monkey migration from human habitations 

China reports first human death from Monkey B Virus

The 53-year-old veterinary surgeon was infected after he dissected two dead monkeys early March

How monkey fever in Goa is linked to deforestation, climate change

From Karnataka’s Shimoga district, this virus-borne disease has spread to the entire Western Ghats

Meet Deben Bora

As field researchers will tell, you don't get up one fine morning and cut through an unknown forest in search of an elusive animal species. Even …

Unsuccessful copycats

Mutations in cloned monkey embryos prove that a lot has to done before primates can be cloned successfully

Iqbal Malik on how Delhi government created a dysfunctional monkey sanctuary

The Delhi government did not follow its plans to contain monkeys in the Asola Bhatti Sanctuary, says primatologist Iqbal Malik

Rights for apes

We are ready to give rights to animals. It sounds and looks good. The question is where do we draw the line?

Blurring identities

Recent cases in the US and Argentina have reignited the debate on granting "personhood" to animals

The guinea pig debate

Is there an alternative to guinea pigs in laboratory testing? Two members of the scientific community give their views

Monkeypox outbreak most geographically widespread in half a century

Monkeypox cases have been on a slow but steady incline, a trend that has often been overlooked by many

Life, again

A story about the return of the orangutans from the concrete jungle to the wild woods to be what they were meant and named to be -- each a man of …

Killing is no answer

Here are 18 steps to deal with monkeys that enter human habitation areas. They do not involve killing them

Supreme Court refuses to stay culling of vermin in Himachal, Bihar and Uttarakhand

Petitioners had contended that the provision was illegal as it gave the government excessive and arbitrary powers to allow ill-informed …

Urban Menace: India can no longer afford to monkey around on macaque management; here is why

First humans encroached on macaque habitat. Now they invade ours, and are unwilling to return because of easy availability of food

Expanding palm oil cultivation in Africa can be risky for endangered primates

A new study says that it will be challenging to reconcile oil palm expansion and African primate conservation as most areas suitable for …

I've found a new species of monkey

Mukesh Chalise , the general secretary of the Natural History Society of Nepal and an assistant professor of zoology at Kathmandu University, has …

Monkeypox in UK: 7 cases reported, 1 with travel history

All seven cases in the UK till now are of the West African clade, a milder version of the virus

Disappearing with the forest

Survival is not easy for an endangered species of gibbons when its habitat is being destroyed, says Kashmira Kakati

Rhesus macaque declared vermin in Himachal Pradesh

Minister Maneka Gandhi has criticised the environment ministry's recent decisions to declare some animals as vermin

Animal sacrifice

150 million animals are killed for research worldwide. Do humans really benefit?

‘Vermin’ politics: Human-wildlife conflict mitigation needs to be based on science, not historical biases

Bill to amend Wild Life (Protection) Act gives Centre direct power to declare any species ‘vermin’, potentially impacting hundreds of …