Scientists Sakumi Iki and Ikuma Adachi recently spent a lot of time watching monkeys scratch themselves. Self-scratching among non-human primates is known to indicate social tension and anxiety. The ...

Authorities arrested a Connecticut mom and took away her pet monkey after it scratched the Waterbury woman’s 10-year-old daughter. Police said 10-year-old Samantha was injured on a snow day when she ...

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Self-directed behavior, such as self-scratching (hereafter, scratching), occurs in several taxa across the animal kingdom, including nonhuman primates. There is substantial evidence that scratching is ...