Their tree-to-tree locomotion, called brachiation, is how these swingers get around. The spider monkey’s tail is prehensile, which means “capable of grasping.” It is generally longer than ...

“Monkey” is generally accepted to refer ... While some monkeys even have this capability, they can’t swing from tree to tree ...

The monkey, a Groves' Titi, listed as "critically endangered" by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), had ventured far from its fast-shrinking home on a hill in a small patch of ...

The world’s smallest monkey is called the pygmy marmoset, and it is, predictably, very tiny, just a little scoop of fur. It likes to eat the sticky resin found in tree bark, known as gum ...

Scientists think these outsize organs create an echo chamber that amplifies the monkey’s call ... frequently leaping from tree limbs and hitting the water with a comical belly flop.