Becky Thompson calls herself a monkey mom. She has lived for six years with Kristi, a 22-year-old capuchin monkey trained to help her with everyday tasks she can no longer perform since a 1981 ...

Every once in a while, you see something that makes you slap your forehead and exclaim,"Duh, of course! Monkeys!" The most recent example of this comes courtesy of Rick Chandler, at nbcsports.com's ...

A lie repeated 1,000 times becomes truth—at least in the eyes of the gullible. Agriculture history is filled with red herrings and snake oil, but the oft-told, outrageous claim of trained monkeys ...

The Taliban's training monkeys to gun down Americans? It's a bogus claim that's sparked some serious (and not-that-serious) fact-checking. People's Daily Online started the monkeyshines in China a ...

BAOWAN VILLAGE, China (Reuters) - During decades of political turmoil in China under Mao Zedong, monkeys were not trained or kept as pets, but often eaten. But one village in rural Henan province, ...