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Interesting news story from November 2008 regarding the plight of the Macaques.
Investigations by the BUAV and European Coalition to End Animal Experimentation have discovered that 10-thousand monkeys were exported from Cambodia last year.
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Here’s some video of Michael Jackson with Bubbles the Chimp. For a while he had a chimp… that’s before he started to act really bizarre. He was eventually sent to a sanctuary [...]
We know chimps don’t make good pets for most families (if not all families). Here’s a Harry Raven a guy who essentially had a chimp (Meshie) his father brought back from an expedition as a pet sister. The man, now in his 80’s and the chimp, long dead and stuffed in the Natural [...]
We know humans and chimps are closely related. But now we know even our laughter is very closely related. Here’s a great article (with pictures of chuckling orangutans, despite the title) about laughter and monkeys.
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Tarsiers are critically endangered and could be come extinct in the very near future if their habitat (mainly in Indonesia) isn’t protected. These guys are as small as a human fist.
Here’s a great story from DailyMail:
Odd couples come in all shapes and sizes but the story of the primate and the canine who are best friends has proved to be a match made in showbiz heaven.
Suryia the orang-utan and Roscoe a Blue Tick hound became friends when they crossed paths at a South Carolina sanctuary [...]
137-pound orangutan Karta at the Adelaide Zoo, Australia managed to short an electric fence and scale a concrete wall but decided to return back into the enclosure rather than escape. The zoo keepers were prepared to tranquilize if needed.
Man these guys (and gals) are clever. Don’t mess with them.
As reported by the NY Post the Bronx zoo will be shutting down several exhibits at the zoo to save money. One of those being shut down is the night monkeys aka Owl monkeys a member of the New World monkey family. They will be shipped off to other zoo(s) along with several [...]
Someone apparently lost a massive stuff gorilla on the Blatnik Bridge in Duluth MN between Wisconsin and Minnesota. If it’s yours, check out the article for how to claim it.
The BBC is reporting on research that Chips may actually be trading meat (valued for it’s protein) for sex:
“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.”
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