RFM during a play session between an adult (left) and a juvenile gelada (right). Credit: P.F. Ferrari Don't be fooled by those impressive teeth. These two gelada monkeys (Theropithecus gelada) are ...

Left: a gelada male attacks two females, who respond with screams and bared-teeth facial expressions. Right: one of the study subjects, feeding, is about to receive the audio stimulus; the ...

The ability to mimic the facial expressions of others is thought to be linked to empathy. It's known that humans and orangutans "ape" each other in this way, but gelada monkeys appear to do it too, a ...

With their bright red, hairless chests and grass-grazing lifestyle, gelada monkeys are quite unusual. They are the only primate, other than humans, to primarily live on land instead of in trees, and a ...

Amongst the high mountain meadows and grasslands of the Ethiopian plateau stands one primate, the gelada–the “bleeding heart” monkey named for its brilliant red chest. Geladas are the last of their ...

PHOENIX (AZFamily)—Ethiopia’s Simien Mountains National Park is the only place in the world where the rare, endangered gelada monkey lives. These “bleeding-heart” monkeys face a plastic problem from ...

When a new male gelada monkey takes control of a reproductive group, he will typically kill off the babies of his predecessor. Now, new research shows that pregnant females have an adaptive strategy ...

A traffic stop on I-10 near Benson ended with DPS troopers shooting and killing a driver Monday morning. Officials say no troopers were hurt and there is no ongoing threat to the public. Investigators ...

An international research team has put together the first gelada reference genome, assembled from a single wild adult female gelada from the Simien Mountains, Ethiopia. They combined it with a ...