Living in Dhaka, one rarely expects encounters with wildlife, especially monkeys. However, my home at Shahjadpur, beside an enormous mango tree, became the stage for a rather unusual drama involving a lone monkey!

With most places closed down, street animals which occupy urban spaces with us and often rely on scraps from people are having to go hungry. In Sylhet, people have taken it upon themselves to feed the monkeys at the shrine of Chashni Pir at Amberkhana area.

In one of the first examples of compassionate care and grief in a wild monkey, an alpha male of a group of snub-nosed monkeys and his dying partner spent a final, tender hour together before she passed away.

Having a hard day at work? Here is a group of jumping monkeys to lighten your day!

A tiny Eastern pygmy marmoset, the smallest type of monkey on the planet, is born at Chester Zoo. The mini-monkey is spotted on dad Gumi’s back as it made its debut at the north-west English zoo.

The captured monkey, its arms tied tightly behind its back, sits crouched over in a Mumbai residential colony trying with its teeth to untie the cord bound around its ankles.

Who does not love puppies? It seems everyone in the animal kingdom loses it over puppies and this monkey is no exception.

A rare crested macaque that took a now internationally famous "selfie" cannot own the copyright to the photograph because he is not human, a US judge rules in a suit brought by animal rights group PETA on behalf of the monkey.

Taken away their natural habitat, around a thousand monkeys are still thriving in some places of Dhaka city.

An experimental drug cures monkeys infected with the Ebola virus, US-based scientists say. The treatment, known as TKM-Ebola-Guinea, targets Makona strain of the virus.