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Thursday, September 30, 2004
"Around one corner, two chimpanzees screech for attention"
Egyptians pay to see real sons of pigs and monkeys.
"Warning: Photos include depictions of butchered animals"
"Photographer Fights African Poaching With Grisly Pictures"
"there were suggestions of trapping the stray dogs and releasing them in the forest"
India's Shimla, pleased with results of relocating menacing monkeys to someone else's neighborhood, has big plans for stray dogs.
"In fact, it is impossible to determine"
Canadian man in gorilla suit may or may not have spoken English.
Wednesday, September 29, 2004
"there are some canines too"
India's Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University: student population – 1,700; monkey population – 1,500.
Just call him "Snakemaster"
Animal Planet hires geek:
In 1986, he spent 107 days in a glass cage with 36 deadly snakes to stimulate awareness on the plight of the African gorilla.'Cause when you see snakes, you think gorillas.
A little gorilla you can call your own
Boston's Franklin Park Zoo can't find anyone to take Little Joe, erstwhile escapee.
"Apes have a really mischievous nature"
You'll be impressed with Johannesburg Zoo's new Ape House. If the apes haven't torn it down by the time you get there.
Tuesday, September 28, 2004
"already on display at the $25.7 million Regenstein Center"
Western lowland gorilla born at Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo.
"Pet dogs are better matched to the human mind"
UK's first professor of animal psychiatry announces that dogs better pets than chimps, blames poor parenting.
"But again, they're not going to show up in the polls"
Disgraced former Senator Gary Hart spreads 'Republicans won't vote for Bush' meme, finds a friend in Dr. Monkeystein.
"He is presently recovering and being monitored"
Babec, a gorilla at Alabama's Birmingham Zoo, gets a pacemaker.
Monday, September 27, 2004
"As far as I know, it’s not only the preparation process"
Political infighting rears its head as Thailand prepares for upcoming CITES conference.
"an LSU doctor had tested the implants on dogs and monkeys in the 1980s"
Class action suit against Louisiana State University over bunk jawbone implants dismissed for waiting too long to sue.
"the endemic Purple Faced Leaf Monkey"
Coffee-table books of Sri Lanka wildlife to fund free school posters of Sri Lanka wildlife. In Sri Lanka.
Sunday, September 26, 2004
"which would put their intelligence on a par with chimpanzees"
That most dangerous of animals - the clever pig!
"You changed Fort Wayne forever"
Earl Wells, a founder of Fort Wayne Children’s Zoo, memorialized after being stung to death by yellow jackets.
"I was known as the 'monkey lady'"
Former Columbia University veterinary doc now a pea in PETA's pod.
Saturday, September 25, 2004
"Join keepers as they hide treats for some really big cats"
Oregon Zoo adds Behind the Scenes Encounters, where you can experience the sights, the sounds, the smells of a hard-working zoo.
"it's not a zoo around here, it's a three-ring circus"
Director of Alabama Gulf Coast Zoo takes her work home with her.
Friday, September 24, 2004
"leave it to the moral responsibility of the researcher"
India may decide that maybe medical research would be a good idea, after all. Also, first test-tube goat.
"eaten by one of the lions, cheetahs or pig-like peccaries"
New Zealand's Wellington Zoo says escaped monkey, elephant, a low risk to the New Zealand environment.
"Hooting with what she called chimpanzee cries of joy"
Queen of the chimps Jane Goodall makes a spectacle of herself in New Jersey.
Thursday, September 23, 2004
"we watched with amusement as the apes imitated the builders"
New enclosure for apes at Johannesburg Zoo.
Wednesday, September 22, 2004
"Kaysnoor monkey fever might have already entered Cotigao sanctuary"
Invasive species, large and small, plant and animal, in India.
"Our heads get filled with monkey chatter"
Vast assortment of psychics converge on NYC, not one manages to predict that nobody really cares.
"we know that it is okay to wear black shoes and black socks"
State University of New York at Buffalo presser says humans, monkeys, think differently.
Tuesday, September 21, 2004
"held by police for causing death through recklessness"
Malaysian man mistakes wife for fruit-thieving monkey, shoots her dead.
"the very “special” monkey stew"
Missionary claims to have been served monkey-genital stew in the Philippines.
"It's a slow and painful process"
US conservation group WildAid to use celebtities to talk down to Thais.
Update: Oh good, they also have a few ideas on sovereignty.
Update: Oh good, they also have a few ideas on sovereignty.
"International Peace Day, also called United Nations Peace Day"
Queen of the chimps Jane Goodall's Young Minions to inflict giant pigeon puppets on Oregon taxpayers.
Update: and 49 other states.
Update: and 49 other states.
"She had her own technique"
Bob Campbell, Dian Fossey's cameraman, tells his story of working with, on, the gorilla reseacher.
"a permanent resident of the zoo"
Hawaii's Rusti the Orangutan get $100,000 from Chelsey Foundation.
Monday, September 20, 2004
"known to catch small rodents and monkeys"
Colorado teen channels Seymour Krelborn, confirms stereotypes about homeschooled kids.
"If I were him, I wouldn't do it"
A interesting little interview with The Daily Show's Jon Stewart. Lefty, but not a moonbat.
"the creative flair is a sign of their intelligence"
Japan still bored, painting chimpanzee flavor of the week.
Sunday, September 19, 2004
"Do it as a favor for Og"
Local paper in Billings, MT, omits a significant detail from the story. A detail of which Neanderpundit is cognizant.
"1,000 orangutans in North Sumatra and Aceh provinces are disappearing each year"
Sumatran orangutan headcount declining.
"live out their lives in nongovernmental facilities"
Animal rights group demands research chimps be freed, funding for national network of homeless chimpanzee shelters.
"The public doesn't understand that monkeys don't invade territories"
South Africans in Durban protect themselves from marauding monkeys. Officials, activists, outraged.
"Imagine this happening in your pants pocket"
At Monkey Kingdom News and Rants, why lithium batteries have, and need, protection against overcharging.
Saturday, September 18, 2004
"the end prize for this research is curing a disease"
UK's National Association of Pension Funds to survey businesses on effect of animal rights activists.
"Luckily no animals had escaped"
Florida's Horseshoe Creek Wildlife Sanctuary took a beating from Charley.
I think I've already seen this movie
Scientists at University of Washington plan to infect monkeys with the flu virus from the 1918 pandemic that killed 40 million people.
"a monkey slipped in, bit her and gouged out her eye"
Monkey menace unabated in India's Uttar Pradesh.
Friday, September 17, 2004
$24,053, give or take. Mostly take.
Past president of the Caucus of Connecticut Democrats promises to pay back the thousands he "borrowed," now that he's been caught and all.
"We didn't want to get into that because of Busch Gardens"
Tampa, Florida's Lowry Park Zoo to butches up and goes African in a big way.
"used by tribesmen to hunt tree monkeys"
Somebody brown and furry plots revenge in Santa Barbara, CA.
"only 150 guards to protect this 5,000 sq-km park"
This $40M's all going where intended, I'm sure.
"It is hoped the money pledged on Friday by donors including Unesco, the UN Foundation, USA, Belgium and Italy will help Congolese conversation."
"we are supposed to represent the 650 mountain gorillas left in the wild"
Two UK City Council officers to run 7k in gorilla suits to benefit Diane Fossey Gorilla Fund.
"Animal use is an integral part of virological research"
India's National Institute of Virology to be permitted to do some work again.
Thursday, September 16, 2004
"Unfortunately, identifying this gene offers no help for people"
Harvard scientists discover gene for clumsiness.
Tonight on CBS news
Dan Rather tears the lid off the Republican's most closely guarded secret: extensive ties between Vice President Dick Cheney and Batboy.
"but it's pretty sad, too"
Baltimore's American Dime Museum to display paintings by Betsy the Chimp.
"a baby chimp and baby orangutan showed signs of vitamin D deficiency"
Apes at St. Louis Zoo to see the sun.
Wednesday, September 15, 2004
"years of verbal and written complaints"
America's biggest cardboard box manufacturers racist smurfs, EEOC charges.
"ever since he was a child he has been interested in exploring"
UK man off to Sumatra to find local Yeti.
"Whenever I go to Bali, I never miss going to a Kechak"
Japanese tourists ruining Bali, says Philippine tourist.
"based on a mixture of rhesus monkey rotaviruses"
Monkeys assist in developing vaccine for rotavirus, "most common cause of severe, dehydrating diarrhoea and vomiting in children worldwide."
MonkeyWatch consumer alert!
World Wildlife Fund to raise funds by providing wildlife photos for new-fangled postage stamps. $16.99 for 20 37¢ stamps = 0.8495¢ per stamp.
Tuesday, September 14, 2004
"born at Barcelona Zoo last month"
Spain's new baby gorilla twins make their first public appearance.
Monday, September 13, 2004
"He’s definitely a Wisconsin monkey"
Jasper, the monkey Green Bay didn't want, lands in Manitowoc, which doesn't seem to care much one way or the other.
Sunday, September 12, 2004
"devastated at the theft"
Yet another monkey-napping at UK's Shaldon Wildlife Trust, which ought to consider locks on the doors.
"using monkeys instead of mice"
Alzheimer's vaccine tested on monkeys at Yerkes National Primate Research Center, in Georgia.
"The jail is dark. It smells rank, like concentrated monkey"
Punjab state addresses monkey menace with monkey jail. "Activists" "angered".
Things that man was not meant to know
UK's Animal Procedures Committee demands stronger government rules agsinst distasteful science.
Saturday, September 11, 2004
"bring used items for donation from the chimp wish list"
"I know there’s a monkey involved"
Pepsi pits man against monkey as memories of 50's game show scandal fades.
Friday, September 10, 2004
"this incredible oxygen-providing resource"
The UN, Joseph Kabila, Jacques Chirac. Think fund-raiser proceeds will be diverted?
"Wildlife groups and Indonesian officials are adamant"
DNA tests for ex-Safari World orangutans back on.
Afternoon of a Nude Red-capped Mangabey Descending a Staircase
Exhibit of wildlife photographs, drawings by noted UK wildlife photographer, drawer.
Thursday, September 09, 2004
"The Ramayana is a 2,000 year-old epic story"
Wanna bet that this Minnesota ketjak chorus doesn't know it's a 20th Century tourist draw?
"at least three species of lice depend on the threatened red colobus monkey"
Various parasites, etc., said to be "co-endangered" species.
"if she could have any animal in the world it would be a monkey"
Connecticut girl eschews birthday presents for donations for local no-kill animal shelter.
Wednesday, September 08, 2004
"has not discouraged visitors"
Ghana's Kumasi Zoological Gardens concentrating on core competencies.
"For the past decade the labs have been a target for animal rights groups and government officials"
Headline-seeking Alamogordo, AZ District Attorney Scot Key "reportedly" sues Boston company because two (of hundreds) of chimpanzees died.
Charles River Laboratories.
Charles River Laboratories.
"As a woman, I am outraged"
Old splinter-britches sends pamphlet to "her extensive list of personal and professional contacts" asking support for PETA's campaign of protest against medical experiments at New York’s Columbia University.
Tuesday, September 07, 2004
"There's no vaccine against it. It's just one of those things"
Three monkeys dead of Yersiniosis at New Zealand's Auckland Zoo. Dr. Potter notwithstanding, specific vaccine, Yersiniavax ("presently available only in New Zealand") described here. (Maybe it's not certified for use on monkeys.)
"Carrots, it seems, aren't good for rabbits"
However, says Prather McNeal, of Ross University School of Veterinary Medicine, monkeys still like bananas.
"believed to be the first orangutans to live in Iowa"
Great Ape Trust of Iowa to welcome first great apes at the end of the month.
"you can't build a tree to hurricane code"
Florida zoos lose few animals to Frances, but suffer significant damage.
Monday, September 06, 2004
"black-faced langurs versus red-faced monkeys"
Government of Andhra Pradesh hires more langurs to address monkey menace.
"It's a slow and painful process"
US conservation group advertises to dissuade Thais from consuming wildlife, set zoo agenda.
"there are more commonalities between us and our closest living relatives"
Chimpanzees know when they're being imitated, say University of Queensland researchers.
Sunday, September 05, 2004
"cultivation of the Polynesian noni fruit"
Australian woman moves to Borneo to save orangutans by providing alternatives to logging.
"There will be no skunks here"
Alabama teen is qualified wild animal rehabber. So, stop thinking about this unrelated television character.
"giving birth to baby boy Kumi right in front of their eyes"
A glut of gorillas at London's Chessington World of Adventures.
"We're the only place that does this"
Boston's Helping Hands "monkey college," where capuchins are trained to help people with severe disabilities.
you got to start young if you're going to stick it out
Queen of the Chimps Jane Goodall to indoctrinate elementary school kids with new book, "Rickie & Henri: A True Story.
Your kid will keep trying to return the dog to the wild.
Your kid will keep trying to return the dog to the wild.
Saturday, September 04, 2004
"What they say on television is a lie"
al-Reuters finds (or invents) Beslan locals to blame Putin for hundreds dead. The single reference to the terrorist murderers responsible for this merely calls them rebels.
"They're our little babies"
Retired couple in Florida keeps busy by running Primate Paradise, a sanctuary for monkeys and whatever else wanders into the yard.
Friday, September 03, 2004
"Look out for 11 monkey species, caimans, and giant otters"
If you try to visit the Galapagos Islands, there are no direct flights.
"fashioning out policy framework"
Ghana to begin talking about planning to write 5-year plan to refurbish Kumasi zoological gardens.
Things to know about Ghana.
Things to know about Ghana.
"the wretched bosses of commerce are drooling"
Clueless humor, or a plank in the Democrat platform: you decide.
"Two bears, two llamas and a lemur have been named in the same fashion"
Baby leopard at the Zoo in Forest Park gets a name: Katunga
Thursday, September 02, 2004
"the skeleton of famed Australopithecine, Lucy, has a small braincase but modern ankles"
"Hominids started walking on two legs six million years ago," says French Museum of Natural History. Later they invented baguettes.
"the whole locality is suffering from the terror of the monkeys"
Residents of Lucknow, India, meet monkey menace with fireworks.
"the animals were frightening children at nurseries"
Officials in Japan's Wakayama Prefecture get strict with left over monkeys.
Wednesday, September 01, 2004
"honey bears, cockatoos and orangutans"
Indonesian officials seize illegally-held endangered animals.
"carcasses were found dumped and with their throats slashed"
Indian villagers, tired of monkey menace, risk Hanuman's wrath.
"the monkeys are being disseminated secretly"
Indian government takes steps to address monkey menace, pissing and moaning from the usual sources commences.
"monkeys are entering into my house at the slightest opportunity"
Continuing monkey menace in Orissa, India.
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