Festival favourites Arctic Monkeys have been nominated for eight, while sister trio Haim are up for six.
Arctic Monkeys have been announced as the second headline act for this year's Reading and Leeds festivals.
Thousands of monkeys have been imported into the UK for use in laboratory research despite a legal ban, animal rights campaigners have claimed.
The article, "Improved Scanning Technique Uses Brain as a Portal to Thought," mentions that cats and monkeys have been used in experiments researching orientation columns.
Staff tell me the monkeys have been known to open unlocked doors into guests' villas, head straight for the minibar and take the Carlsbergs.
A week after scooping Best Album and Best Band at this year's Brits, the Arctic Monkeys have been given five gongs at this year's NME awards.
Authorities say more than two dozen monkeys have been set free in Puerto Rico after someone broke a lock on their enclosures at a primate research facility.
Eight monkeys have been under the care of the Santa Fe zoo as part of a wildlife conservation programme after they were are torn away from their families sold by traffickers.
The caught monkeys have been kept in cages for three years, and the Supreme Court ruling was prompted by an animal rights activist's petition saying the animals might die if held in captivity for too long.
These six monkeys have been repeatedly tested for S.I.V. in the year since efforts were made to infect them with the virus, and all have remained free of infection.
Monkeys have been taught to solve the oddity problem: presented with two objects of one kind and one of another, they can be trained to select the discrepant one.
