Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. shekhardesign / Moment via Getty Images As a proud member of the Chinese zodiac, the monkey holds a meaningful place in feng shui, ...

Your story in this week’s issue, “Confessions of a Shinagawa Monkey,” is perhaps a continuation of a story that was published in The New Yorker in 2006, “A Shinagawa Monkey.” Where did the idea of ...

Some of the closest relatives to humans, primates have existed on earth for almost 85 million years. Broadly divided into Old World species and New World species, there are 334 different species ...

The Monkey is a symbol of cleverness and power in Chinese mythology. The fable of the Monkey King, Sun Wukong, is very famous in China, depicting the trickster god as possessing of superhuman strength ...

From paintings and photographs to coins and credit cards, we are constantly surrounded by symbolic artifacts. The mental representation of symbols -- objects that arbitrarily represent other objects - ...