Here’s a baby Mandrill. There’s also a rather good speaker explaining about the baby.

Female gorillas use sex as a tactic to thwart their rivals, new research suggests. Pregnant apes court their silverback male to stop other females conceiving.

“It seems to us that mating is another tactic that females use to compete with each other – in this case to gain favour with another male,” says Diane Doran-Sheehy, a primatologist at Stony Brook University in New York.

You can find the full story here.

Here is a video from National Geographic featuring two Western Lowlands Gorillas having a standoff. These guys are really powerful. Just look at the size of their arms.

Here’s a computer simulation of what would happen if a Gorilla and a Leopard were to encounter each other based on an analysis of their strengths.

Gorillas are strong animals. Don’t let them fool you.

Here’s a more educational Britannica video. Baboons in their natural habitat, as opposed to the safari or zoo .

Here’s a guy and his helper monkey on the OC Register. The Capuchin monkey has literally given him his independence back. Helping Hands is the organization that trains them.

Check it out.

More of chimps in space. This time Enos the chimp. Sadly he died about a year later from an unrelated illness.

You do know chimps were in space before humans right? Not all animals launched made it back sadly, but a few did (later on). Very interesting old film.

“What’s amazing is that if a male shares with a particular female, he doubles the number of times he copulates with her, which is likely to increase the probability of fertilizing that female.”

Check out the story at BBC News.