We’ve all seen those ads for online match making. There’s even one for animals. Two gorillas who first met online welcomed their first baby.
Researchers say that a mother monkey teaching how to floss is proof that monkeys in the wild can teach. The story is a little light on details, but still pretty interesting.
A man was to pick coconuts he could sell. Work is hard and he was beaten if he refused. The monkey eventually got his revenge
We already know monkeys can plan attacks.
Lesson: Don’t screw with monkeys.
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An overweight Spider Monkey was found in East Ridge, Tennessee. Check out the video. This is one chunky monkey.
A Swedish study found that chimps can plan, citing an attack by a chimp at a zoo:
According to a report in the journal Current Biology, the 31-year-old alpha male started building his weapons cache in the morning before the zoo opened, collecting rocks and knocking out disks from concrete boulders inside his enclosure. He waited [...]
The Daily News reported among the weird stuff the TSA has found:
They’ve seen the drug-filled dead cat, a frozen monkey head and a suitcase bursting with wriggling cockroaches in the past few weeks, said Uselding.
I don’t even want to guess what that would be used for considering it’s being smuggled (which rules out scientific research [...]
Here’s an interesting story from the NY Times regarding primates as pets. One thing I learned is that apparently at least one monkey loves his TV.
LIKE many longtime couples, Carlie and Bob, independent animal rescue workers in upstate New York who have been together 21 years, have a difference of opinion about [...]
Puerto Rico is sending monkeys to iraq. They will be going to the Baghdad Zoo. Puerto Rico apparently has a monkey problem since some escaped a research facility (and likely reproduced like we know monkeys are known to do).
The other day I mentioned that a guy was attacked by a chimp in 2005 and lost his nose and man bits. Well here’s a news story on it with some details and a slightly gory picture (and that’s only his nose).
Chimps are best left to zookeepers who can take care of them properly.
Time.com on when chimps attack:
But adult chimpanzees might be better described as superhuman — a 200-lb. chimpanzee is five to seven times stronger than a person of the same size, especially in the upper body. “They are incredibly powerful, and people underestimate that,” says McCann. “An adult male chimpanzee is a formidable animal. I would [...]
