Following the Sri Lanka Agriculture Ministry’s confirmation of a request from a Chinese company to import 100,000 toque macaques for their zoos, environmentalists have mounted protests over fears that ...

COLOMBO, June 27 (Reuters) - Sri Lanka has scrapped plans to export 100,000 endangered toque macaque monkeys to China, the Wildlife and Nature Protection Society of Sri Lanka, one of the 30 ...

Sri Lankan Minister of Agriculture Mahinda Amaraweera recently announced that the government is considering a Chinese private company’s proposal to import 100,000 “toque macaque” monkeys from Sri ...

Toque macaques operate on a strict hierarchical system that determines everything from mating rights to the order of when you're allowed to feed. Break those rules, and you'll have to answer to the ...

An outsider male macaque has issued a direct challenge to the leader of a toque macaque clan. If he wins, he'll become the new alpha and could decide to murder his ousted rival's offspring. Jose Gomez ...