What they discovered was surprising. As detailed by Türkiye Today, the box contained a baby rhesus macaque. "At first, we thought it might be a cat, but after looking again, we realized it was a ...

If hunters take a mother for meat, they may also capture her offspring for the pet trade. Mother macaques bear one baby every 20 months or so and do most of the parenting. Wee ones nurse for less ...

Conservationists estimate that smugglers take some 300 infants out of Morocco each year for the growing European pet ... the baby. Males brave many dangers to protect the young. “Some macaques ...