Scientists Sakumi Iki and Ikuma Adachi recently spent a lot of time watching monkeys scratch themselves. Self-scratching among non-human primates is known to indicate social tension and anxiety. The ...

Authorities arrested a Connecticut mom and took away her pet monkey after it scratched the Waterbury woman’s 10-year-old daughter. Police said 10-year-old Samantha was injured on a snow day when she ...

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Self-directed behavior, such as self-scratching (hereafter, scratching), occurs in several taxa across the animal kingdom, including nonhuman primates. There is substantial evidence that scratching is ...

For years, people across Nepal have complained about monkeys stealing food from their homes and farms. Now the government is conducting a monkey census to understand how bad is their monkey problem ...