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• n  short-tailed monkey of rocky regions of Asia and Africa

• According to the paper, "Payment for Sex in a Macaque Mating Market," published in the December issue of Animal Behavior, males in a group of about 50 long-tailed macaques in .
• One imagines that George Allen longs for the days when people thought macaca was just Latin for the macaque genus of monkeys and he still had a shot at, gulp, the White House.
• It turns out that one of humanity's oldest professions may be even older than we thought: In a recent study of macaque monkeys in Indonesia, researchers found that male primates .

News & Articles

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• Conway copes with monkey escape
  Twitter has been lit up today with tales of an "escape artist" macaque monkey that let itself out of a Conway vet's office last night and put a succesful chase in motion. Log Cabin Democrat reports. Should we note that the Arkansas legislature got into the monkey regulation business this year? Here's the police report. A friend of animals comments: It says they took two tries to tranquilize the ...
  June 20, 2013 - Arkansas Times
• Monkey named Joey goes ape on office, escapes clinic for brief time
  A 30-pound pet monkey briefly escaped a Conway veterinarian clinic Tuesday where it was being boarded by its owner.The male Macaque monkey named Joey was found just outside the Chestnut Animal Clinic around 7:30 p.m. by Conway police officers who responded to an alarm at the property that was triggered when the monkey opened the clinic's back door.The monkey was outside unattended for about two ...
  June 19, 2013 - The Log Cabin Democrat

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• Francis Collins in NEWS.com.au
  The sequencing of the rhesus macaque genome, combined with the availability of the chimp and human genomes, provide researchers with another powerful tool to advance our understanding of human biology in health and disease,said Francis...