The Rs.81,000-crore mega project planned for Great Nicobar will clear over a million trees, endangering the endemic Nicobar ...

In recent years the critically endangered macaques have suffered as they’ve been hunted for their meat, taken as pets, and squeezed into ever smaller areas by illegal tree clearing for coconut p ...

The troop gathered at a large sleeping tree along the river each evening before dark. When everyone was accounted for in this troop of 30 highly social and intelligent macaques, the members would ...

This story appears in the November 2014 issue of National Geographic magazine. The Barbary macaque is a monkey of many distinctions. It is the only primate, other than humans, north of the Sahara ...

According to him, the ability of macaques to adapt to urban dwellings is not new — they have been doing so for centuries. Sinha brings up a poem featuring a monkey on a jackfruit tree who ...

Resting in a quiet place after a morning of photographing birds and leopards, Vinod soon realised he wasn’t alone. A troop of toque macaques were moving through the trees above. Vinod spotted this ...

home to the endangered lion-tailed macaque. The project will require blasting, heavy machinery, and the felling of thousands of trees, potentially damaging one of India’s most ecologically ...