The story behind the photo I mentioned the other day is rather interesting.
There’s really nothing else to say here. Want to see pictures of Paris Hilton kissing a chimp? Paris was photographed making out with Bentley the chimpanzee in New York. [Daily Mail]
Here’s the story of Anjana a Chimp taking care of a puma cub… with several pics.
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 [...]
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.”
Check out the story at [...]
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That’s one athletic monkey. He’s fast. Clearly the person whose voice you hear in the video isn’t aware of the awesome athletic ability of chimps.
42 year old chimp Ichiro escaped from his cage at the Ishikawa Zoo the other day looking for someplace cool.
What got him to surrender? Tranquilizer? Squirt from a hose? Nope. A banana.
As Bruce Schneier hints, monkeys can have relevance in the topic of security. In particular research on risk preference. The study he notes is pretty interesting:
Because chimpanzees exploit riskier food sources in the wild, we predicted that they would exhibit greater tolerance for risk in choices about food. Results confirmed this prediction: chimpanzees [...]
“Chimpanzee expert” (which is below Monkeyologist) at the Lincoln Park Zoo, Steve Ross says doesn’t like the Chimp videos. According to this article:
…comedic portrayals of chimps undermine conservationist efforts to save the endangered species.
Any truth to this? No, not really. It’s because of these portrayals that we love them so much. [...]
Mother Shiba welcomes here new baby girl chimpanzee at Taronga Zoo and would like to thank the zoo’s breeding program for getting her laid.
