Keepers are patrolling a village as the search continues for a monkey that has escaped from a wildlife park. The Royal Zoological Society of Scotland (RZSS) is also in talks with a drone company as part of efforts to find the missing Japanese macaque. The monkey found a way out of its enclosure at the […]
A monkey is on the loose after escaping from a wildlife park in the Scottish Highlands. The Japanese macaque found a way out of its enclosure at Highland Wildlife Park near Kingussie on Sunday morning. Staff at the park, run by the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland (RZSS), urged the public not to approach the […]
Scientists in China on Tuesday announced that they have cloned the first healthy rhesus monkey, a two-year-old named Retro, by tweaking the process that created Dolly the sheep. Primates have proved particularly difficult to clone, and the scientists overcame years of failure by replacing the cloned cells that would become the placenta with those from […]
A “healthy” rhesus monkey cloned in China has survived for more than two years and is providing “valuable insights” into the scientific process, according to researchers. Scientists in China used a modified version of the same technique that was used to create Dolly the sheep, the world’s first cloned mammal. Out of the 113 cloned […]
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. Meet Retro, a cloned rhesus monkey born on July 16, 2020. He is now more than 3 years old and is “doing well and growing strong,” according to Falong Lu, one of the authors of […]
[Source] A tourist spot in northern China’s Hebei province is looking for a Monkey King impersonator. About the legend: Sun Wukong, also known as the Monkey King, holds a central role in Chinese mythology and Wu Cheng’en’s classic adventure novel “Journey to the West.” Blessed with unmatched superhuman strength and the extraordinary ability to transform […]