Maldonado is a Colombian monkey conservationist and founder and director of the Entropika Foundation, an organisation that works to protect rainforest ecosystems in the Amazon. Maldonado’s work in the ...

The pools of Lençóis Maranhenses are clear and blue ...

In central-western Brazil, scientists found a primate with white fur on the head, gray on the body, black and golden on the legs and a completely black tail. It is now called the Schneideri monkey, ...

A Rio de Janeiro zoo is giving ice pops to a bear, a jaguar, wolves and monkeys for some welcome relief from Brazil’s ...

Two emperor tamarins are the newest residents of Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago. Sal, an 8-year-old male, and Feta, a 4-year-old ...

and Brazil. Woolly monkeys were once considered four species: the gray, Columbian, silvery, and Peruvian yellow-tailed woolly monkeys. More recent genetic studies suggest there are only two ...

The project was coordinated by Ottoni, who in the late 1990s led the first studies in Brazil on tool use and social learning by capuchin monkeys at the Tietê Ecological Park in the state of São ...

Deep in Brazil’s semi-arid Caatinga region, capuchin monkeys are teaching scientists valuable lessons about social learning and group dynamics. Recent research has uncovered that these remarkable ...

The world’s smallest monkey is called the pygmy marmoset ... found mostly in Peru, Ecuador and Brazil. Stella de la Torre, a world-renowned expert on pygmy marmosets, scans the trees at Yasuní ...