While Launceston resident’s ongoing social media campaign for their own Nando’s worked – despite a long process, hopes are now up for Burnie, Deloraine, St Helens and Scottdale.

The Tasmania Zoo, which is twenty-five minutes away from Launceston, is another place that houses both local and exotic species, especially Tasmanian Devils. They are committed to protecting the ...

Capuchin monkeys are mainly known for their intelligence and resourcefulness. However, scientists have come across a strange, new behavior among the primates: child abduction. Per Smithsonian ...

Howler monkeys, on the other hand, are “the cows of the trees,” said Meg Crofoot, also an anthropologist at the Max Planck Institute and a co-author of the study.

A Texas man was busted for trafficking vulnerable Mexican baby spider monkeys, who were too young to be separated from their mothers, into San Diego and selling them on Facebook. Sarmad Ghaled ...

Sarmad Ghaled Dafar was sentenced to four months in custody for smuggling six, rare baby spider monkeys over the Mexican border and attempting to sell them over Facebook, officials said.

Man sentenced for illegally trafficking baby spider monkeys across California-Mexico border Sarmad Ghaled Dafar, 33, was sentenced to four months in custody and 180 days home confinement for ...

For instance, a 1991 study found monkeys who were given an anxiety relief drug seemed to scratch themselves less, whereas monkeys who received an anxiety-inducing drug increased self-scratching.

Was smashed in betting Launceston Cup Day when ridden by Damien Lane and just won. He did beat two subsequent winners in that race. Now at peak fitness, and rising in distance to 1600m should be a ...

In early November, the monkeys escaped from the Alpha Genesis Primate Research Facility after a caretaker didn’t secure the doors, police said, citing the company’s CEO, Greg Westergaard.