A student has told of the moment she saw an ape-like creature bounding across a park on all fours. Terri Leigh Cox was looking out her bedroom win...

When YouTube footage of this wild animal being tickled in a Russian flat appeared, however, the slow loris became an instant celebrity, with tens of millions of online views. The slow loris might look like a harmless, big-eyed baby Ewok from Star Wars, but it is actually the only poisonous primate in the world.

Humans are but chromosomes away from their monkey cousins, and these pensive portraits of chimpanzees, orangutans, baboons and bonobos show just how s...

The mandrills - the largest member of the monkey family - put their hands over their eyes when they want to be left alone. Its a gesture thats neve...