Monkeys communicate with alarm calls, facial expressions, posture, scent marking and grooming. Here is how each channel works and what it signals.
How monkeys evolved: the primate origins, the catarrhine and platyrrhine split, the Atlantic crossing to South America and the radiations that followed.
Monkeys are not baby apes, they do not all eat bananas, and they do not make easy pets. Twelve common monkey myths corrected.
The most famous monkey species in the world, from Japanese snow monkeys and Gibraltar’s Barbary macaques to capuchins, mandrills and the golden lion tamarin.
What makes a monkey arboreal, how prehensile tails and grasping hands work, and how canopy species divide the forest between them.
Owl monkeys are the only truly nocturnal monkeys. Here is how night vision, monogamy and quiet living let them exploit a niche no other monkey uses.
A guide to the monkeys of South America: capuchins, squirrel monkeys, spider and howler monkeys, marmosets, tamarins, titis, sakis and owl monkeys.
A guide to the monkeys of Asia, from temple macaques and Japanese snow monkeys to langurs, surilis, snub-nosed monkeys and the proboscis monkey of Borneo.
A guide to the monkeys of Africa: guenons, vervets, baboons, mandrills, colobus monkeys and geladas, and the habitats that shape them.
Which monkeys live in rainforest, how the canopy is divided between species, what they eat and why rainforest loss hits primates hardest.