The ‘Likweli’ marks the second species discovered in the past 15 years around the Lomami River, in a remote and thickly ...

Nearly 100 monkeys ran loose through neighborhoods in central Thailand after escaping from a government-run enclosure overnight, prompting authorities to launch a large-scale effort to capture the ...

A woman in Nashua is spreading positivity by handing out little plastic monkeys when she encounters strangers on her daily walks."I see something going on. I say hi to people. I talk to them," ...

There are places in this world that exist purely to make you happy, and the Sock Monkey Museum in Long Grove, Illinois is one of them. Over 2,000 handcrafted sock monkeys are waiting to greet you with ...

Images of him being bullied by his enclosure-mates, retreating to safety and clinging to a plushie look-alike for comfort won hearts around the world. And his zookeeper has told CNN that the seemingly ...

ROCKFORD, Ill. (WIFR) - Area residents are invited on Saturday to celebrate and learn about Rockford historical icon, the sock monkey. 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., March 7, the annual Sock Monkey Madness ...

(L-R) Amber Burke Johnson, Jeff C. Williams, and Dave Kimsey. On a recent episode of Community Voices, host Jeff Williams brought in Dave Kimsey and Amber Burke Johnson of Capital City Improv—without ...

ROCKFORD, Ill. — The Sock Monkey Madness festival is set to return for its 21st year at the Midway Village Museum on March 7. Running from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., this year's event embraces a Sock Hop theme ...

Remember I'm Still Here by Emilia Evans-Munton has been confirmed as the world's largest sock monkey sculpture. Glasgow School of Art Guinness World Records has officially declared a sock monkey the ...

Emilia Evans-Munton's “Remember I'm Still Here” (2025) lays in the back parking lot of Stow College at the Glasgow School of Art. (all photos by and courtesy the artist unless otherwise noted) It's ...

Punch the Monkey went viral after a video appeared to show the baby macaque getting "attacked" by adult macaques. Hearts around the world broke when he ran to his surrogate mom, a stuffed orangutan.

A baby monkey named Punch is struggling to find acceptance in his macaque enclosure in a Japanese zoo, and endeared social media users are fully on his side. Punch, who was abandoned by his mother ...