"I eat dead people"

Cannibals caught in Ugandan village earlier this month lead to discussion of various cultural and individual food preferences.

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"We don't know if it was the high altitude or what"

Second gorilla birth this month at Denver Zoo.

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Like it would have killed them to include a link!

Via Chicago Sun-Times, Charity Navigator gathers info on spending by charitable organizations.

Queen of the Chimps Jane Goodall's eponymous foundation spends 11.9% of their income on further fundraising, 18.9% on administrative overhead. The Gorilla Foundation spends a whopping 39.4% on fundraising, 14.5% on adminstration.

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"when he went to feed the monkey, he could find only the remains"

Leopard reportedly eats pet monkey in Kadakola, India.

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Trentham Gardens - now provocatively renamed as simply 'Trentham'

UK's Trentham Gardens being restored. A monkey park with Barbary Macaques is planned.

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"There is a huge lack of support in the courts for chimpanzees"

Tucson High-Schooler studies chimpanzee vocalizations. Queen of the Chimps Jane Goodall is name-checked.

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"This book should not exist"

Tarzan Presley.

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"Our main concern was that Iwani’s mother might bite him again"

New Zealand's Auckland Zoo celebrates return of one-year-old siamang gibbon to abusive parents.

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Via FARK

Ouch.

"They don't follow the story, of course"

Dallas zookeepers depend on idiot box to amuse gorillas in lockdown.

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Khaaaaaan!

Ho-hum

Flag to flag as expected. The rest of 'em blowed up or ran into each other or ran into each other and then blowed up.

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"unusual and reversible way to control overpopulation and incest"

The Monkey Park in Israel's Ben-Shemen Forest touts contraceptive implants for monkeys.

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"post mortem on the dead animals but that hasn't revealed quite substantial results"

Intentional poisoning ruled out, apparently, in Shimla monkey deaths.

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"another bad day for David Coulthard"

Order restored to F1

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Mad, you call me mad?

For just short of four years now, Al's spent every evening in his living room, unshaved, in boxers and wifebeaters, making State of the Union speeches, addresses to the General Assembly, and Nobel Prize acceptance speeches. You'd be nuts, too.

Not that nuts, of course, but still...

Fun facts to know and tell

Fishing by electrifying the water is called "monkey-fishing." And don't get caught.

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"I tried to eat the monkey meat, but it doesn't taste good no matter how you cook it"

Monkeys not on the menu for Michigan turkey-hunter.

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"among the 14 Eco-Tourism Projects supported by the US government"

Mary Carlin Yates, US Ambassador to Ghana, formally opens Visitor Reception Centre at Tafi-Atome Monkey Sanctuary. Presumably this'll give them a place to put the gift shop.

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"The police also warned that piranha had been released into rivers"

Bangkok your best bet for all your illegal wildlife needs, say Forestry Police and World Wide Fund for Nature.

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"a lesser ape species native to Indonesia"

Siamang born at San Diego Zoo.

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There's a monkey in my pants!

"Not only are we going to fire Rumsfeld ... we're going to fire Rice
and Ashcroft and Powell and Mineta and Thompson," Gore enthused in his
speech to supporters. "We're going to fire Ridge and Jackson and
Veneman. And we're going to fire Norton and Evans and Abraham and
Paige and then we're going to Washington, D.C., to trash the White
House! Yeeeeeeah!"

Not without a SAG card, you don't!

Japanese TV show "Tensai! Shimura Dobutsuen" removes orangutan Chika-chan from cast.

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"the infamous island of the spider monkeys"

Kids say the darndest things at the zoo.

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"We’d almost been hoping that Sooty and Meeko would have a girl for a bit of variation"

Sooty and Meeko, Goeldi’s monkeys at UK's Living Rainforest, apparently break a record with eighth male baby in a row. At least it cuts down on incest.

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"the lungs are affected, with foam like blood emanating from the mouth along with diarrhoea"

Dozens of monkeys mysteriously dying in Shimla, India.

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"the sound of the howler monkey"

Philadelphia Zoo opens "Peco Jungle Trek": "[s]eparated only by a pane of glass, you can stand next to a lowland gorilla or a Sumatran orangutan".

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"Hey look! That monkey's drinking a can of Fanta!"

Via Ghost of a Flea, the history of Fanta, with pics of a soda-swilling monkey.

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"the new hand-sized fluffy baby is doing well"

Lac Alaotra gentle lemur born at UK's Bristol Zoo Gardens.

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"nearly 14 million people have visited his Body Worlds show"

German federal office for nature protection nix "anatomist/artist's" exhibition of gorilla corpse.

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"Topeka Zoo will be getting a new male orangutan"

Topeka Zoo sends Elijah, 14-year-old Bornean Orangutan, to Salt Lake City.

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"We're very pleased that the Waldrapp ibis have bred again"

Curraghs Wildlife Park, on the Isle of Man has many newborn animals, including crab-eating macaque.

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"nine months after Lowell the orangutan ventured out of his cage at the zoo"

Unnamed baboon makes unsuccessful bid for freedom at Seneca Park Zoo in Rochester, NY.

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Photos of seven terrorists the FBI would like you to watch for

"83% of the 231 genes compared had differences that affected the amino acid sequence of the protein they encoded"

Human, chimpanzee DNA differences more complex than had been thought, says Riken Genomic Sciences Center in Yokohama, Japan.'

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"Should you eat the coffee beans in your Sambuca?"

The contemporary Martini, considered as an analogy of simian evolution.

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"if you have monkeys, you will have dung beetles"

Dung beetles prefer monkey's.

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"and a variety of lizards"

Minnesota Zoo to feature two kinds of lemurs.

Update: ring-tailed and red-ruffed, as it turns out.

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"Chimpanzees just don't belong in Hollywood"

Pamela Anderson complains of unfair competition. Queen of the Chimps Jane Goodall is quoted.

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"tarsiers are believed to have existed for about 45 million years"

Don't cuddle your tarsier, says Philippines Environment Secretary.

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"no one knows where the virus lives when it is not infecting humans"

Via the Command Post, Ebola in Sudan.

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"Capitol Federal Auditorium"

Wichita bank's charitably foundation earmarks $300K for Sedgwick County Zoo, gets auditorium named after themselves.

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"Twin births is fairly exciting"

Twin white-handed gibbons born at Louisiana Purchase Gardens and Zoo.

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"We always seem to end up with more gorillas than we planned"

Louisville Zoo takes receipt of three gorillas from Bronx Zoo.

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"it appears one of our animals has decided this is a fun game"

Eight-year-old girl uses face to catch rock thrown by gorilla at Cincinnati Zoo.

Update: "Some people are finding it entertaining"

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"The chimpanzees we keep are castrated or sterilized"

Jerusalem's Biblical Zoo surprised by chimpanzee births.

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"This baby monkey lives with the bitch only"

Dog in India mothers crippled baby monkey.

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"tour lasts from 29 May to 3 June"

Dr Willie Smits, orangutan and rainforest advocate will tour the UK, presumably to advocate orangutans and rainforests, neither of which seem likely to put down deep roots in the UK.

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"we are still in the initial stage of writing out the management plan"

Sarawak to study orangutans, plants.

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Don't spritz the Prince!

Didn't see that coming.

Update: This was pretty obvious, in retrospect.

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"a guinea pig that stands two to three feet tall"

Indiana's Potawatomi Zoo to build $250,000 walk-through exhibit of South American animals.

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"It's not unmanageable. It just presents challenges"

Dallas Zoo gorillas still in lockdown, keepers work to prevent them becoming stir-crazy.

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"Gorilla Haven is not open to the public"

Joe the Gorilla bucks up with a change of scene.

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While they're anesthetized, as it turns out

Gorilla sperm bank.

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"mastered the skills of climbing and jumping"

Picture of a monkey in China.

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"We can't have 200 people coming down our driveway every day"

Kentucky's Primate Rescue Center holds annual open house. Yesterday. You could go next year.

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"If a gorilla can protect a child, why can't we?"

Chicago's Brookfield Zoo distances itself from Texas child abuse prevention campaign.

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Not that it'll make a big difference come October, I don't suppose

And he'd be in the third row if his brother hadn't had to change an engine.

(Update): AP: "Michael Schumacher Doesn't Win Monaco Pole"

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Your Tax Dollars at Work

US Fish and Wildlife Service gives $77,000 to Sierra Leone's Tacugama Chimpanzee Sanctuary.

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"There is no admission charged to get into the zoo"

"Animals are the stars at National Zoo". Also, books are the big attraction at the local library

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Tulivu

Denver Zoo to send new gorilla to Albuquerque Biological Park, await another birth.

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"promoting best practice in animal testing"

Edinburgh: "new national centre dedicated to reducing the number of animals used in medical experiments", reducing annoying street-urchin glut.

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"90 pieces of original artwork with "Curious George"-inspired items"

Louisville Free Public Library to host someone in a Curious George suit this weekend.

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"State Road 15 in Bristol, IN"

MonkeyWatch alert: Keep an eye out for new neighbors.

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"Bajik is being introduced to his mother only for short periods of time"

Toledo Zoo shows off baby orangutan to reporters. You'll have to wait for three or four weeks.

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"very little of this $275 goes back to the people who live around the park"

For $275, you too can try to trek through the Bwindi Impenetrable forest and see gorillas.

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"It was like winning the Lotto"

Australian cancer patient visits Singapore Zoo to meet some orangutans.

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Goodbye, M’Kubwa

North America's only Eastern Lowland gorilla euthanized at Houston Zoo.

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"and a pony painted with black stripes to make it look like a zebra"

Animals escape Rafah zoo, Reuters blames Israel. The monkey's whereabouts are uncertain at this time.

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Good Old-fashioned Nightmare Fuel

"Padawan Municipal Council"

Malaysian Jedis, already having orangutans, to build place to stand and watch them. “We also have the Borneo Highland Resort for golfing tourists”

(There is no head-hunting on the golf course, absolutely none.)

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"the zoo to raise the price of admission 50-cents for adults and children"

Indiana's Mesker Park Zoo to raise admission prices.

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"Rusti has lived in a cage at the Honolulu Zoo for the past seven years"

Honolulu City Council Parks Committee agrees to accept gift of new permanent habitat for Rusti, the orangutan. Presumably the American Zoo and Aquarium Association has been mollified in some way.

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"Nyamulagira is located north of Lake Kivu in Virunga National Park"

The sky is falling, on African wildlife.

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"they probably wouldn't be able to tell one from the next"

Michigan's John Ball Zoo sees birth of brown-headed spider monkey and bongo.

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"You can buy anything on the Internet except common sense"

Kentucky do-gooders seek to outlaw exotic pets.

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"Zoo authorities have decided to perform similiar surgery on more animals suffering from cataract"

Lion-tailed macaque gets cataract surgery, lens replacement, at Thiruvananthapuram Zoo.

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First step towards Planet of the Apes

First monkey college in the US opens in Boston.

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Goodbye, Kubi

Kubi dies ten days after lung surgery.

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"it will make it a regional tourism centre of Borneo"

[T]he municipality of Sandakan was officially named a Nature City although its status remains a town.

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"perfect because of their durability"

Iowa Primate Learning Sanctuary, mentioned in the previous post a couple of posts ago, looking for old fire hoses for great apes to swing on and such.

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"Did you know the zoo just got two new gorillas?"

They're playing Guess the Gorilla in Little Rock!

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"Apes never evolved in South America"

Iowa Primate Learning Sanctuary to talk about continued reintroduction of golden lion tamarins in Brazil.

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"They are unsuitable as pets"

Cotton-eared marmoset looking for name in South Humberside, UK. Includes low-grade monkey jokes.

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"an indigenous monkey-like cat with a unique skill"

San Mateo, CA to serve $10 cup of Kopi Luwak. Not if they paid me $10.

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"down to 5,000"

Perhaps the faltering eastern lowland gorilla population ought to consider living at a higher altitude.

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"delicacy made from carcasses which are primitively blow-torched"

Bushmeat (including gorilla and monkey meat) in Wales.

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"The controversial production concerned scientists battling over the life of a gorilla"

Star of Prymate, which closed after five performances, receives honorary doctorate.

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"It's like telling a child there's no Santa Claus"

Charlotte, NC costume retailer says his shop supplied gorilla suit for Patterson-Gimlin sasquatch film.

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"It is an honour to have such an acclaimed collection of artists wanting to exhibit in our zoo"

Scotland's Edinburgh Zoo hosts art exhibit. Zoo inmates seem uninterested.

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Operating on a gorilla, Campbell said, "makes you a better doctor."

Kubi continues to improve, provide fodder for medical journals and newspapers.

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"beating up people and monkeys alike"

Monkey kung fu.

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"A 27-year-old shop assistant handed the man some cash and he left"

Australian milk-bar robbed by steak-knife-wielding man in plastic monkey mask. Or a steak-knife-wielding monkey!

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And all the local hotels banned school groups years ago

Nebraska students sent to Omaha to sleep at the zoo.

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"Distinguishing between male and female Sea-Monkeys takes a trained eye"

It's National Sea-Monkey Day, apparently. More.

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"given the maximum sentence of 90 days in jail"

North Carolina woman pleads guilty to starving monkey, assorted other offenses, gets a slap on the wrist.

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"monkeys do not forget when they are slapped on the hand"

Chips takes revenge.

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"temperatures as low as -20C"

Wacky New Zealand, where it's winter now, and time to hold a Brass Monkey rally.

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"a bleak picture"

Queen of the Chimps Jane Goodall visits Philadelphia, trying to sell "Roots and Shoots" franchises.

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"When they grow up to be scientists there won't be a lot left to study"

At Murietta, CA's Tovashal Elementary, it's reading, writing, arithmetic, and rain forests. Mostly rain forests.

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A Response To Murder

Strengthen The Good

Update: more, and more.

"Sunday is their last day of public display"

Louisville Zoo's loaner gorillas and dividend to head for sweet home Chicago. Replacements coming soon.

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"Kelly didn't want any photos taken when it happened"

St. Paul mayor assaulted by monkey in Cambodia. (Requires a password, but you've already got one for reading Lileks's regular column there.)

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"According to animal services, no one has reported a lost monkey"

Arlington TX has either a squirrel or squirrel monkey on the loose.

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"Gina is a very maternal animal"

Emergency caesarean for orangutan at UK's Jersey Zoo, mom and son doing fine.

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"Gorillas on the Piste"

Make a fool of yourself for charity.

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"The judging was based entirely on which New World monkey sounded most like a slang term for female breasts"

Protein wisdom selects the Titi monkey as "New World Monkey of the Year."

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St. Paul to look for gorilla porn

Hand-raised gorilla in Minnesota needs lessons in monkey love.

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Timing is everything

Never mind the truth, documentaries are supposed to be sensational. right?

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"lemurs are living models for the ancient primate mind"

Lemurs smart enough not to show intelligence until offered treats, says Duke researcher.

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"an area the size of Belgium is destroyed every year"

Greenpeace to initiate distasteful got illegal wood? billboard campaign.

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"Part Chimp"

I'd say "everybody needs a gimmick", but I'm rather easily dismissed with that comment myself, no?

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"Experts say this may not necessarily be the best option for the animals"

New Delhi to dump 241 rhesus monkeys in another province, where they won't be New Delhi's problem anymore.

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"Gomber took up this hobby only in the later stages of his life"

Indian man Hanuman memorabilia collector.

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"They also eat our chicken"

No longer satisfied with children, Uganda chimp attacks 17-year-old.

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"It's a conundrum"

Sick gorilla gets free health care, apparently journalists don't. Go figure.

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"bamboo lemurs of Madagasgar who depend entirely on bamboo for food"

UK's Linton Zoo has unspecified plans to save endangered lemurs.

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"The first erotic kiss may have been exchanged in India around 1500 B.C."

Bonobos french kiss, says college columnist.

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"wood of the poor"

Bad news for bamboo is bad news for gorillas, says UN ecologist.

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Needed more fairies on a string

Prymate closed.

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"He is the first known gorilla to undergo the lung-removal surgery"

Kubi still doing well.

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"Typically, females are tolerant of their youngsters' play-sex"

Maybe birth control pills don't work for orangutans.

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"'She's a cute little gorilla,' said Alexis Fletcher"

With picture.

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"and a tarantula named Fang"

Monkey-man finds new home for self, monkeys, in Westchester.

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"The red-capped invader"

It wasn't entirely as expected. Other than that, though, no surprises.

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"The event is not open to the public"

"His MIT lab has produced such robots as Coco, a gorilla-looking machine with broad shoulders, short legs and long arms; Cog, which has the structure of a human body; and Kismet, a sociable robot that interacts with people." The horror, the horror.

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"cautiously optimistic"

Kubi's already eating bits of banana, which is apparently a very good thing.

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"surgery began around 3 p.m., and the last suture was put in around 7:45 p.m"

Kubi's surgery goes well, recuperation begins.

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"What's happening is you take a bunch of typical males, kill the aggressive ones and let the females take over. It's going to be nicer."

Killing off all the high-ranking males in a baboon troop makes for a more passive troop, say Stanford University researchers.

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"a gorilla has been found not to have tuberculosis"

Washington D.C.'s National Zoo reopens Great Ape House and Gorilla Yard.

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"also reported that seven transvestites were detained at a religious function"

Five-year-old boy attacked by monkey in Malaysia.

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"The Miniature Monkeys"

UK's Chester Zoo has deceptively small monkeys, plans to get more.

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"We just love monkeys"

Clairemont CA family has six monkeys.

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"Whether we like it or not, we shall see ekimansulo"

Uganda having trouble attracting paying gorilla-watchers, hopes you'll pay to watch nude dancers.

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"was not responding to treatment"

Sulawesi macaque euthanized at Washington D.C.'s National Zoo.

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"many first-time gorilla mothers do not show natural maternal instincts"

Denver Zoo has delinquent gorilla mom.

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"he is evidently tough-minded"

Richard Leakey works Jane Goodall's side of the street. Queen of the Chimps ominously silent.

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Goodbye, Max

Max, South Africa's anti-crime gorilla, dies in his sleep at age 33, at Johannesburg Zoo.

Update: old age.

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"A lot of research they do is all hush-hush"

Florida neighborhood promises that to refrain from anything newer than aspirin and penicillin.

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Goodbye, Caesar

Caesar, a 26-year old western lowland gorilla, dead of a heart attack at Zoo Atlanta.

Update: "a rare and severe case of bowel inflammation".

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"It's one of those things"

Truck carrying waste water fouled with monkey droppings spills all over Milwaukee highways. Zoo officials claim "It doesn't pose any health problems," and it smells like roses.

Update: $184 ticket issued, no mention of a civil suit to recover cleanup costs.

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Off-topic

Via Possumblog, The half that didn't die before they got old.

"a small bright spot in the war-tattered economy"

Monkey meat a bargain at Congo refugee camp.

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"never smoked a day in his life"

Kubi, a gorilla at San Francisco Zoo, to undergo surgery for chronic bronchitis. Prognosis not so good.

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"Singapore authorities confiscated Blue last year"

Singapore repatriates vervet monkey.

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"The ban on pet elephants makes more sense"

Saskatoonians can't own monkeys. Ha-ha.

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"She left her field work in 1977 to found the institute"

Queen of the Chimps Jane Goodall parts fools from money in Nebraska.

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"a positive test for tuberculosis in one of the St. Louis gorillas"

Riverbanks Zoo to be gorilla-free a bit longer than intended.

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"they might be on exhibit in a week or two"

Western lowland gorilla born at Denver Zoo. Another such birth expected there within the month.

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"The lemur monkeys died, the kangaroos died"

Florida's Octagon Wildlife Sanctuary at the Shell Factory closes after spate of animal escapes, deaths. It'll reopen at the end of the month, with a new name and new management.

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"breeding like bunnies"

Los Angeles Zoo mandates contraceptive use.

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"other viruses have been commonly found in this form of lymphoma"

No, no, we didn't mean HIV, we meant non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.

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the world's largest living lizard

Michigan's John Ball Zoo puts new komodo dragon near Monkey Island. Monkeys trying not to attract attention to themselves.

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"police are looking for a man who disappeared along with the exotic pets last week"

Stolen monkeys found safe in Las Vegas.

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"It's kind of like computerized dating"

Zookeepers spend a lot of time thinking about fertility.

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"André recalls it as love at first sight"

ex-pat French conservationist provides Congo sanctuary for sex-crazed bonobos.

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"New charges have been laid"

All's not well at Australia's Mareeba Wild Animal Park.

Update: more.

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"Many people have been saying their goodbyes in 'Gorilla Grams.'"

Riverbanks Zoo continues to milk departure of loaner gorillas.

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"It's something I'll be able to tell my kids and pass on and stuff"

Queen of the Chimps Jane Goodall recruits at California school.

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"Young People's Decade of Commitment Celebration"

Provincetown to host young elitists, dupes. Queen of the Chimps Jane Goodall to issue orders via video link.

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