It escaped from an enclosure it shares with more than 30 other Japanese macaques at the Highland Wildlife Park on Sunday. The alarm was raised when the monkey was spotted in gardens in the nearby ...

A group of Japanese macaques that have been on display in Launceston, Tasmania since 1981 will be sterilised and left to naturally die out after a decision from the city council yesterday.

Japanese macaques play about in Launceston's City Park. Picture: City of Launceston “We know the Launceston community cares very much about the welfare of the City Park monkeys,” Launceston ...