The world’s smallest monkey is called the pygmy marmoset, and it is, predictably, very tiny, just a little scoop of fur. It likes to eat the sticky resin found in tree bark, known as gum ...

Their tree-to-tree locomotion, called brachiation, is how these swingers get around. The spider monkey’s tail is prehensile ... forage, and eat. This animal’s diet consists mostly of fruits ...

Read by Chetna Pandya from the BBC Radio Drama Company. Legend has it that, many thousands of years ago, there was a Barbary monkey who lived in a huge mango tree in Morocco. Close by there lived ...

Deforestation was eating away at its limited domain, and the monkey was trying to find an ... to open a corridor for the monkeys to swing tree-by-tree back into the rainforest.