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 ...

Many people said that the money looked like Lord Hanuman. The monkey was seen leaping from one tree to another holding the mace. At times it was seen holding it in his mouth and at other times on ...

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 ...

The monkey's agility was on full display as it deftly leaped from tree to tree, maintaining its hold on the puppy. The unusual pair then ventured into an urban area, where the monkey continued its ...

Read by Chetna Pandya from the BBC Radio Drama Company. Legend has it that, many thousands of years ago, there was a Barbary monkey who lived in a huge mango tree in Morocco. Close by there lived ...