"I am going to err on the side of caution and not do a darn thing until I get some answers"

Dallas Zoo gorillas still locked down.

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"illegal trade and smuggling of protected animals is widespread in Indonesia"

ProFauna Jakarta calls for increased penalties for animal smugglers.

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"PETA has protested at Columbia alumni events across North America"

PETA press release about planned disturbance of peace, vandalism at Columbia University alumni event in Kansas City.

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(Gorilla gorilla gorilla)

Western lowland gorillas not only hierarchical but dynastic.

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"Currently active projects are relevant to the common cold and the flu"

Doctor at at the School of Medicine of the University of California, San Diego seeks answers to human origins in sugary science.

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"roadblocks in the path of crazy science"

Presidential panel warns of dangers of Chinese imports of cheap shoddily-made humanzees.

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"n the wake of a severe beating administered to the ruling Union for Popular Movement in weekend regional elections"

Surrender-monkeys attempt the old switcheroo.

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"the suspect saw something in an avocado tree and fired at it"

South African man says he mistook the man he killed for an avocado-stealing monkey.

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"Gorillas hate being bothered"

Dallas Zoo tells their side of the story: blame the cops.

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"knee socks, bunt pants, Alpine shoes and suspenders"

North Carolina's bureaucrat turned busker, John Lowery: organ grinder, monkey employer.

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"Karp is clearly the Jane Goodall of toddlers"

Apparently it takes an ape, or a series thereof, to raise a child.

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"the meeting would give Scottish scientists a chance to contribute their expertise"

Scientists meet in Glasgow to discuss endangered species.

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"this is something that I don’t think the people here will accept"

ROP,MA

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"The analysis relies solely on bone shape"

Anthopologists to apply statistical phrenology to question of human origins.

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"plummeted by more than 70 percent in the past decade"

Unlike mountain gorillas, who bedevil a certain type of alarmist researcher with their growing population, eastern lowland gorillas will require many millions for The Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International.

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"conflicts everywhere between people and animals and wilderness"

Queen of the Chimps looks to add birds, farmers to her dominion.

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"an unlikely choice"

Jack Black to play impresario Carl Denham in Peter Jackson's King Kong.

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"it will be all right for them to have offspring together because the pair are not related by blood"

Taiwanese orangutan to visit Japan. Discovery Channel photogs standing by.

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"they grow up, and they get big teeth and they get aggressive"

California woman runs backyard monkey sanctuary.

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"some batches of polio vaccine in the 1950s and 60s"

Researchers at University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center find that half of newly diagnosed non-Hodgkin's lymphoma patients show evidence of a monkey virus DNA that may have originated from contaminated polio vaccines.

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"I was surprised to hear that Schwartz still believes that orangutans are most closely related to humans"

University of Pennsylvania prof pooh-poohs genetic evidence, advances orangutan as our closest ancestor.

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Bad luck comes in threes

Ben/Jen, Cruise/Cruz, Chaka/Demba.

Update: The other side of the story.

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"residents could take home live worms"

Queen of the Chimps's youth corps coopts New Jersey Earth Day activities, funds.

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Apocalypse draws one day nearer

Atkins-ready beer.

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“Whoever has them probably has bite marks all over them”

Two Cotton-Top Tamarins swiped in Lee County, FL.

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Your Tax Dollars at Work

Voice of America reports on Birute Mary Galdikas, friend to the orangutans of Borneo.

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"the animals will be taught how to survive in the wild"

Indonesian Navy officer busted with orangutan, other protected animals.

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"and of course he’s got a little monkey in him anyway"

PRES. NIXON: (From tape.) I think Rumsfeld may be not too long in this world.

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"a candlelight vigil for Jabari"

Opportunistic anti-human activists, sluggish and dull due to a lack of dietary meat, finally get around to trying to cash in on Dallas Zoo gorilla rampage.

Update: "About 50" nutritionally-deprived individuals showed up.

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"monkeys here in East Timor is like a stupid or nutty and it's a very pejorative character"

International Republican Institute supplies East Timor schools with cute kiddy book about democracy. East Timorese pols object to being caricatured as monkeys. IRI now hard at work on cute memo about cultural sensitivity, cute book about getting a sense of humor.

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"no specific time frame is set for the visit"

That bastion of government efficiency, the USDA, goes to Dallas.

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"Some council members say the liability issue is a potential deal-breaker"

Honolulu City Council stalls for time, hopes it'll all blow over.

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"this is not an accident"

Even before there were people, monkeys got drunk on rotten fruit, says California physiologist.

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"I and everyone you know are to blame for Jabari's death and the ones he hurt"

Kentucky columnist goes all lefty apeshit over Dallas Zoo gorilla rampage.

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"I don't know anyone who would consider a zoo and aquarium good collateral"

Committee doesn't want to move Fresno's Chaffee Zoo to tony North Fresno.

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Datu...means nobleman or chief in the Malaysian culture

Seneca Park Zoo's baby orangutan gets a name.

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"In the U.S., they use a boy doll. People here associate with the monkey"

Indian ventriloquist has monkey dummy.

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"pronounced cheen'-tah"

San Diego Zoo's baby orangutan gets a name.

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"injuring more than 20 residents in the past two weeks"

Villages in eastern India plagued by ear-chewing monkey.

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"But also minorities. Poor people. Drug addicts. Robbers. Rapists. Murderers"

Fort Worth Star Telegram manages to play race card in Dallas Zoo escape.

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"the mutation arose by chance about 2.4 million years ago"

Weak jaws made room for big brains, says University of Pennsylvania geneticist.

Associated Press: "Experts Link Gene Mutation to Evolution." Gee, ya think?

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"It’s a geological accident"

Hominid fossils at New Haven's Peabody Museum of Natural History.

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"the man told zoo officials that he warned the teens not to taunt the gorilla"

Dallas Zoo says 2 teens taunted gorilla before attack.

911 Operator: "Are you serious?"

I've run out of even moderately fresh links, but still, Rowland must go.

What's brown and sounds like a bell?

BBC presents a guide to determining a gorilla's age, by examining its dung.

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Zoo Atlanta will host "Hail Caesar!" day

Now that the Ides have both come and gone, Zoo Atlanta's ready to introduce Caesar to the public.

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"baseball is virtually unknown among China's 1.3 billion people"

Monkey King to throw out first pitch at new Chinese baseball league.

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"Redmond spent much of his time in Rwanda studying gorilla parasites"

Ian Redmond talks about great apes.

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Be a shame if a gorilla mauled your auntie, eh?

Kansas City Zoo wants more money from taxpayer's pockets, mentions the gorilla security door looking a bit rusty!

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"Dispersed Male Networks in Western Gorillas"

Gorillas get on better with relatives than others.

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"They get very angry if women try to scare them off"

Bangladesh town overrun by langours.

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"Dallas Zoo visitors stopped at an empty gorilla habitat Saturday"

Dallas Zoo reopens Wilds of Africa exhibit, gorillas remain in lockdown.

Update: Victim recovering at home.

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"television reporters using the word beast"

We should consider the root causes of gorilla attack, and ask ourselves "why do gorillas hate us?" according to meat-hating Texas prof. "I am convinced that we are still only seconds away from putting lions and tigers into a coliseum-like setting and pitting them against humans in the style of ancient Rome."

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"also pay attention to the production of handicrafts"

Let's strive for increased seeing of endangered monkeys in Dac Lac province.

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"A few laps later something broke in my transmission"

About the only surprise. In two weeks, Bahrain.

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"We should kill the sonofabitch ourselves"

King Kong backgrounder.

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"the fact the skulls were actually of very little worth counted in Hudson's favour"

UK Monkey skull smuggler gets off with community service and court costs.

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"Rama’s monkey soldier Hanuman looks like a ninja in traditional Thai dress"

Attention Frank J: ninja monkeys!

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"can be mildly aggressive in captivity if they feel threatened"

Dallas Zoo officials, finding no evidence that Jabari climbed 12-16' enclosure wall, wonder if he jumped out.

Cheryl Reichert's tale of gorilla attack.

Tucson Citizen runs AP story, calls incident "gorilla warfare", while people who weren't there question police decision to shoot.

"the physical equal of the Dallas gorilla that ran wild on Thursday"

Worrying about orangutans (Attn Dan Lauck: spellchecker, look into it) in Houston.

And Honolulu.

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'humans developed "meat-tolerant" genes'

Don't feed your chimpanzee too much meat, Stanford profs say.

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"He told her that the gorilla tried to eat his head"

More and more about yesterday's gorilla escape at Dallas Zoo.

Some youths had reportedly teased the gorilla shortly before the escape.

Victim upgraded to fair from critical.

Zoo staff had been cut and maintenance postponed because of the fund shortage.

Here comes the government.

"a little-known retrovirus"

Scientists fear that simian foamy virus could become danger to humans.

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"The gorilla never left the zoo grounds"

Jabari, 13-year-old male western lowland gorilla shot and killed by police after escaping cage enclosure and attacking people at Dallas Zoo. Jake L. Hamon gorilla conservation research center at Dallas Zoo.

Update.
More.
More details.

"We are demanding"

Well, virtually.

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"She is a self-confessed environmentalist and possesses a certificate in cookery"

Ugandan mushroom farmer conserves Rwandan gorillas, it says, though it doesn't say how. Also, huh-huh, huh-huh, they said "NAADS."

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"It took me awhile to segue from humans to orangutans"

Sonogram scans for pregnant animals at Toledo Zoo.

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"petting farm...with new animals: armadillos, hedgehogs, tarantulas and pygmy goats"

North Carolina's Natural Science Center of Greensboro to spend $5 million to be different.

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"this is a viable form of husbandry"

Research shows bachelor gorillas get along fine, as long as there are no females around.

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"other monkeys had been pining at his absence"

Kidnapped monkey rescued in Torquay. Arrests have been made.

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"will star Phyllis Frelich, Heather Tom and Andre De Shields, with the fourth role yet to be cast"

If you have your own gorilla suit, this could be your big break!

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"The monkey first attacked a drunk mason"

Bangalore needs langurs.

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"He has driven the monkeys away"

60 monkeys squatting at Delhi Election Commission evicted by guard langur.

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"Jane Goodall...in 2002 publicly said in an interview that she was sure these primates exist"

Bigfoots prey upon deer, bigfoot researchers upon gullible.

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"Riverbanks plans to offer official farewell events when the departure date is set"

Loaner gorillas at South Carolina's Riverbanks Zoo soon to return to Chicago’s Lincoln Park Zoo, to be replaced by Pittsburgh Zoo males.

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"I am a versatile person"

Chinese painter famous for monkeys can handle other subjects.

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"he was kidnapped by the military for two days"

Profile of Rosek Nursahid and ProFauna, an Indonesian wildlife conservation organization.

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"soon you're watching chimps dig for termites with a stick"

Wisconsin's Vilas Zoo adds new video programming.

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"Cowards!"

No progress in catching Sao Paolo Zoo poisoner. See Bigwig's February post.

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"I haven't seen anything like this," Ted Jr. said

Omaha's Henry Doorly Zoo to name new gorilla complex for Theodore Hubbard, late of that state.

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"they're the prettiest of the porcines"

New boss at San Francisco Zoo already making enemies, friends.

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"a £1,000 squirrel monkey called Joe"

Monkey-napping at UK's Shaldon Wildlife Trust.

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"One animal-rights organization calls Harlow insane"

Deborah Blum's Love at Goon Park, about Harry Harlow's parent-child psychology experiments, is mentioned.

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"he is a joy to kids on this island"

Honolulu City Council fears orangutan rampage.

And, Rowland must go. Governor's shyster invokes 'McCarthy hearings.'

"I think everybody calls me the monkey lady"

Monkey visited by former owner in this item from Thursday now has new home in Oklahoma.

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"Because that's the way they've always done it..."

Conditioned behavior in apes as a business parable, from the Economic Times of India.

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"I don’t think we’re under any threat"

Scottish Primate Research Group at St Andrews University comes this close to demanding vote for our cousin, the chimpanzee. Queen of the Chimps is name-checked.

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"the size of a large cat and different shades of grey"

Marmoset-napping reported in UK.

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at Edinburgh Zoo

St Andrews University to implement virtual field trip to see virtual chimpanzees.

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"drunk and inside a cage with a monkey"

Mississippi woman decides to pay a visit to her pet monkey, at the Animal Rescue League. Alcohol is involved.

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"Amy is a biologist and Bill is a social scientist"

Conservation couple to give presentation at Cornell Friday about ecotourism in Rwanda.

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"Experiments have shown that the technique works on other animals, such as rabbits and laboratory rodents"

Boomer Deathwatch take note: research in monkeys shows menopause may be reversible.

Update: Maybe without forethought and messy transplants.

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New York monkey boy offers to leave town if it'll get him back his menagerie. MonkeyWatch free advice: keep an eye on who's moving in next door.

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"M-V-A injections protected the animals against a lethal dose of vaccinia virus"

Monkey tests look set to yield safer smallpox vaccine.

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"She is absolutely fine except for the black soot on the fore and hind limbs and excessive stress"

Slender Loris goes for unauthorized joyride in Bangalore.

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"There’s no better pet for a monkey than another monkey"

North Carolina guy with too many animals now proprietor of New River Zoo.

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"potentially dangerous"

Moochie the monkey, still in state custody, dies of unspecified causes.

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"Critical Analysis of Evolution - Grade 10"

OH pushes ID.

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"caught returning from Africa with a string of skulls from protected animals"

Monkey skull smuggler pleads guilty.

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"we're very excited to now have a healthy male newborn"

Male baby Sumatran orangutan born at San Diego Zoo, sometimes seen on their apecam. Name the baby contest on AOL.

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"They all look really depressed"

UK wildlife photographer has new book of Japanese macaques sitting in hot springs.

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"In 2004 The Center for Great Apes strives to double its membership"

Four women team together to issue press release, save chimpanzees and orangutans.

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"neighbors had complained of the smell of monkey urine"

NYC police find apartment full of monkeys, other animals.

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"One of the world's great centers of primate diversity"

Rwanda has a new National Park where monkeys abound.

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"From the wildlife aspect, certain items caused us well-founded concerns"

UK curiosity shop owner admits smuggling monkey skulls.

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"he was afraid to tell anyone because they'd be so mad at him"

Bigfoot hoaxer fesses up.

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"Koko instantly connected with Robin"

Signing gorilla and hairy man to raise funds, speak out against bushmeat trade.

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"can a human and an ape be crossed successfully?"

Indian newspaper asks some damned strange questions.

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"animals that act more naturally and aren't bored or stressed"

Improvements planned at Delaware's Brandywine Zoo.

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"Zoo people never go away completely"

Houston Zoo's primate curator to retire.

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"You get leeches all over you"

Not extinct, but things not looking rosy for Miss Waldron's red colobus.

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"I think we inherited a dark side"

Fawning USA Today review of upcoming Queen of the Chimps TV treats. Louis Leakey is name-checked.

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"The design of the park deters contact between humans and animals, so it will be more like their original habitat"

Jakarta's Ragunan Zoo to get new primate park.

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"Robinson Crusoe on Mars"

Movies with Monkeys at Infinite Monkeys!

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Albert Park

Does no surprises count as a surprise?

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"As a scientist, she has a very open mind"

WaPo columnist claims Queen of the Chimps a bigfoot believer.

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"the muscle tissue of any vertebrate—a monkey, a boar, a lion, a rat, even a human—all looks the same under the microscope"

Field & Stream presents The Caveman Diet.

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A lot better

Let the weather do what it will, winter is over.

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"New animal model for Alzheimer vaccine"

Science Blog reports on use of rhesus monkeys in promising tests of new Alzheimer's vaccine.

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"animal traders know beforehand about raids"

Indonesia seen as ineffective, at best, at protecting animals. Also humans, apparently.

More here.

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"At 26, she headed to Africa to study chimpanzees at Gombe National Park"

AP article touting latest cinematic feast from Queen of the Chimps manages to completely omit mention of Louis Leakey.

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"when you're investigating Bigfoot, you can't jump to conclusions"

Bigfeet reports in North Dakota and Pennsylvania.

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"At first she thought it was a dog"

Monkey attack in Kenya.

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"As of last year, five orangutans and 11 gibbons had been sent to Britain"

Orangutan shipped from Taiwan to UK. Object: reproduction. I smell reality show!

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"an experience you'll never forget"

South Carolina's Riverbanks Zoo is looking for customers.

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"A totaled car will be displayed at Concord High School"

Later, they'll make them watch Signal 30 and Mechanized Death.

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"Three hominid teeth, one believed to be nearly four million years old, were also discovered"

Paleontologists in Ethiopia hope to discover even older and more complete specimens than the famous fossil "Lucy."

Dear Reuters: Paleontology != archeology.

Update: UC Berkeley says paleoanthropology.

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"more than 100 babies have been born, including four last year"

Winnipeg's Assiniboine Park Zoo: where monkeys breed like monkeys.

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"the stakes are high as a mystery illness plagues the community"

Queen of the Chimps to harangue crowd after display of latest agitprop.

Update: more.

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I thought you were going to do that

It's sad when nobody remembers.

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Scarred for life

Sacramento invites anti-tobacco activist to scare the hell out of middle schoolers with human, monkey brains. "His delivery is devoid of browbeating," except for the part where he "shook solution from the dripping brain of a cadaver," I guess.

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"all you end up with usually is a pile of slushy goo"

Mad scientist in Wales begins building vast army of cybernetic apes.

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You Can't Make This Stuff Up

Off topic.

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Fun with headlines

The Daily Yomiuri says "Not just any old monkey, look for the wood."

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"a headache to zoologists around the world"

China reports success artificially breeding black leaf monkeys.

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