Meet Yakei, a 9-year-old female living in a Japanese macaque reserve called the Takasakiyama Natural Zoological Garden, where she has spent the last year reigning as the first female troop leader ...

The macaque, named Yakei, presides over a troop of 677 monkeys in Takasakiyama Natural Zoological Garden, which was established as a reserve for monkeys in 1952.

The reign of Japan’s monkey queen has just begun. Last year, Yakei, a 9-year-old female Japanese macaque, fought several other macaques, including her own mother, to become the alpha of her troop.

A female monkey has earned alpha status over a troop of more than 670 macaque monkeys at a nature reserve on the Japanese island of Kyushu for the first time in the reserve’s 70-year history ...

The reign of Japan’s monkey queen has just begun. Last year, Yakei, a 9-year-old female Japanese macaque, fought several other macaques, including her own mother, to become the alpha of her troop.

Iowa’s Blank Park Zoo welcomed another baby to the Japanese macaque troop on June 3. The female macaque weighed 572 grams at birth – a big, yet healthy, weight. Her mother, ‘Miya,’ who was ...

This is the shocking moment wild monkeys stole food from the back of a passing pickup truck in Thailand. The gang of macaque ...

MILWAUKEE – No baby showers were planned; no pregnancy announcements were sent out. The humans keeping watch over the Milwaukee County Zoo's troop of Japanese macaque monkeys were not sure, but ...

In the mid-1960s, a troop of Japanese macaques were rampaging around Mihara, a town just east of Hiroshima, eating crops and pissing off local farmers. The authorities took drastic action in 1964.

A macaque named Maya gets the star treatment in the new documentary “Monkey Kingdom,” narrated by Tina Fey and ... male macaques never stay with the troop they grew up in. Kumar is one such ...

Celebrate the Fourth of July at the Milwaukee County Zoo with $4 admission for all guests. On the Fourth of July, the Zoo is ...