Killing is no answer

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

SOUTH AFRICA

Aping each other

Scientists may grow genetically-identical monkeys

Human-primate split is recent

Human-primate split more recent than believed

Kpunji represents a new genus

Recent find climbs up the taxonomic ladder from a new species to a new genus

High court order on Delhi's monkeys gets mixed response

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 …

Redefining gender issues and conservation

Women farmers in Uttarakhand are bearing the brunt of the monkey menace

Feeling the heat

ANDi the modified

Raising the first genetically modified monkey rekindles debate

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

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 …

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

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 …

The monkey-catcher

Monkeys exact revenge on a naturalist

CONGO

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?

Primates losing race

Blame's on chimps

‘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 …

Disappearing Act

Only special breeding programmes and creation of corridors can save the lion-tailed macaque from extinction

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