Monkey

Monkey business: Authorities hunt for missing monkey after truck carrying primates overturns

Law enforcement shared that the truck’s driver warned them the monkeys “were dangerous” and “posed a threat to humans.”

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Rhesus macaque monkeys hang from their cage at the Tulane National Primate Research Center, where the focus of study has shifted to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, in Covington, Louisiana, U.S., May 14, 2021.
A monkey captured by Israel's Nature and Parks Authority on July 29, 2025

Monkey business in Ramle ends in cement factory capture as crackdown continues

The Nature and Parks Authority said the green monkeys are believed to have been released by private individuals who kept them illegally and then let them go when the responsibilities became too much.

|ByPESACH BENSON/TPS
Orangutan

Watch the scandalous moment: Boxer gave an orangutan an electronic cigarette

Russian Anastasia Luchkina endangered the life of a female orangutan at a zoo in the Crimean Peninsula: “Deliberate cruelty to an endangered animal.”

|ByWALLA! SPORTS
A baby vervet monkey in Zanzibar, November 2005

What are two Lebanese monkeys doing in a house in the Israel's North?

Inspectors from the Israel Nature and Parks Authority collected the monkeys and took them into care.

|ByELI ASHKENAZI

At the Zoo: Monkeying Around

The whole family pitches in to raise the young cotton-topped tamarins.

FEBRUARY 5, 2010BySTUART WINER
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