"a six-day rampage"

Malaysia's long night of macaque terror ends.

1,000 scientists can't be wrong

Less food for you is no burden on them.

"the beginnings of the evolutionary history of humans"

Early anthropoids originated in Asia, says new study.

"pupils got a rude shock when monkeys caned some of their colleagues"

Animals exit Kenya's Maasai Mara Game Reserve, rampage.

"They act like a human being"

Iowa grade-school group visits Great Ape Trust orangutans.

Bloggers take note

The LLama Butchers want your links. For a good cause.

"a trusted pair of hands"

'Dominique de Villepin (who is a man)' jokes back in style!

Update: First sighting!

"He was such a wee dote"

Northern Ireland monkey still on the loose.

"poachers armed with AK-47s"

Kenyan national park Meru, site of Born Free story, restocked.

"Lisa Leitten is finished living her double life"

Will PETA loons support her while she looks for a real job?

"the population in the area was not being collaborative"

Congo's Ebola victims unhelpful, UN World Health Organization complains.

"toxic pesticides or poisonous berries near the enclosure or from a disease harbored by gibbons"

Washington Post columnist regurgitates PETA press release vilifying Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo.

"came down with cerebral malaria at the end of the trip"

Ape portraits on display at UK's Natural History Museum.

"following a row with his father"

Spider monkey on the run from Northern Ireland's Belfast Zoo.

‘a rhesus monkey named "Jocko Flocko"’

NASCAR drivers and their pets.

"So the parents are naturally very aggressive and even dangerous"

India's monkey catchers take the summer off.

"our story was unbalanced"

Readers' Editor at UK's The Observer says they unfairly criticized animal rights thugs.

"a loud machine gun fire sound"

Student at India's National Defence Academy invents monkey repellant.

"somewhat better behaved than some people"

A story on St. James and LaDonna Davis, victims of California chimp attack, including a wedding photo which features their chimpanzee (not involved in the attack), who was "a combination of flower-thrower and best man."

(I've previously linked an earlier publication of this article, but without the photo.)

"An estimated 200 million animals"

Experts will be out-numbered by the ignorant when Taiwan considers the fate of animals dumped during religious ceremonies.

"Indiana's oldest zoo"

Tell your friends you visited Potawatomi Zoo and saw chimpanzees and monkeys. You'll get to say "Potawatomi!"

"It's the type of stuff they typically do"

Animal Liberation Front thugs kill plants, make death threats in Pennsylvania.

"all thinking people will be disgusted"

May 28, 1959: Able and Baker, monkeys, become first space flight survivors. Loons protest.

"could have allowed the bird flu virus to mutate"

Vietnam says it won't use monkey kidney cells as growth medium for avian flu vaccine.

"The sweet, pungent smell of a gorilla"

Zoos, seen as a way to conserve species.

"whether BA would have a similar policy on the carriage of live animals for food"

British Airways caves in, bans transport of experimental animals.

"non–human primates colonized Madagascar only once"

All lemurs, extant and extinct, evolved from a single ancestor, hypothesise Yale biologists.

"got away with $3,550 in cash"

Bank of Richmondville, NY robbed by "person" in monkey mask. If you were a monkey intent on larceny, could you think of a better disguise than a monkey mask?

Update: Human after all, it seems.

Update: Arraigned, charged.

"a relief to us all"

Rollie, 9-year-old western lowland gorilla at Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo, recovered from infection and back on display.

''How can you go from growing beautiful peony flowers to operating a cruel primate facility?''

Pennsylvania monkey kennel delayed.

"She's doing a lot better with this one than with her last"

Lowland gorilla born at Denver Zoo.

"mini monkeys"

"Creatures Beneath the Canopy" to open Saturday at Minnesota Zoo.

"We set a date to open and we're going to open"

Grand opening of Orangutan Forest at Nebraska's Henry Doorly Zoo on Friday.

"Animal Enterprise Protection Act"

Seven SHAC thugs to be prosecuted in Trenton, NJ.

"I was expecting that a goat would be born on that day"

Baby lemur and baby leopard born at North Carolina's New River Zoo.

"It all happened earlier this week"

Maybe so, maybe not.

"It's a shame these people are going to be transported out of town"

Warren, RI loses Samsonite, keeps three-story inflatable gorilla.

"on the brink of a public scandal"

Veterinary in-fighting continues at Phoenix Zoo

"Elephants have enormous-sized fecal matter"

Washington, D.C.'s National Zoo seeks volunteers.

"some people being monitored disappeared for a while into the surrounding forest"

Republic of Congo imposes quarantine on Etoumbi and Mbomo districts, site of current Ebola outbreak.

"Will you eat the last raspberry, tomato, carrot, goat, lama, pigeon on the planet?"

Malthus lives!

"It's a shame I have to deal with it in my back yard"

Resident of Philadelphia suburb unhappy over plans to open waystation for experimental monkeys.

"Moe . . . peed on a woman"

California chimp attack victim LaDonna Davis tells her story.

"They scare away the monkeys and cage the more naughty ones"

India's Minister of State for Human Resource Development, recently seen here as monkey menace victim, becomes monkey menace achiever.

"So our hope is that now the local people are our partners"

Queen of the Chimps, Jane Goodall, transcribed.

"Zoo and I go hand in hand"

Johnny Martinez, new director at Indiana's Washington Park Zoo, has logo change in mind.

"The baby is beautiful. This is fantastic news"

Formerly blind gorilla gives birth at UK's Bristol Zoo.

"the most expensive monkey house ever built"

What to see at the San Francisco Zoo.

"a feeling of real-world proximity to animals"

The diorama: one writer's favorite form of Natural History Museum display.

"There is no such thing as a typical day"

"Every day is a new adventure" for zoo veterinarians.

Nevermind, false alarm

I thought it said "Gibbon Leads Gubernatorial Race In NV".

"The Chicago Building Congress has given the zoo a merit award"

Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo, recent victim of persistent bad luck, wins architectural design award.

"Testing the IQ of a sheep may seem laughable"

Who'd benefit most from you being weak and anemic from a deficient diet?

Queen of the Chimps, Jane Goodall, vegetarian, is quoted as saying "We should eat less meat." It strikes me that when a vegetarian says "We should eat less meat" "we" isn't exactly the word.

Oh you poor brute of a killer without a conscience! I'm wet with compassion!

Execution of serial rapist-murderer Michael Ross decried.

"fake wasp nests and phony durian fruit"

New ape enclosures at St. Louis Zoo a big hit with enclosed apes, says reporter.

"We plan to obtain monkeys later this year"

Pig-to-monkey organ transplants next year's black, predicts Korean professor.

"a relatively little-known animal that's only recently gotten a lot of fanfare"

This year's hot new animal: the lemur.

"Move over Ward Churchill, you have company"

Dr. Steven Best rambles on and on, explaining why animals he knows are preferred to people he doesn't.

He gives enough clues that I'm happy to welcome Animal Crackers, his nemesis, to the link list, on the right.

"Zoos essentially operate pretty much on their own out there"

Government doesn't oversee minute-to-minute operation of zoos, reveals Associated Press shocker!

"It's a battle of wits between humans and monkeys"

Japan builds monkey-only suspension bridge.

"Oooh-oooh-oooh-oooh, ahhh-ahhh-ahhh-ahhhh"

Jet-setter, queen of the Chimps, Jane Goodall knows what's best for everyone else.

"20 cases of bites are reported every day at the anti-rabies clinic"

December 28, 2003, July 29, 2004, May 21, 2005: bureaucracy is bad for your health.

"You just have to get used to the smell"

Yerkes Primate Center field station in Lawrenceville, GA: my god, it's full of monkeys!

"animals have rights and should not be used by humans for food, clothing, entertainment, experimentation or any other reason"

Clarksville, Tennessee's Governor's Square Mall bows to PETA loons, now photo-booth operator and his monkey are unemployed.

"free de-worming for cats, dogs, goats, monkeys and camels"

All Jeddah's itchin and a-twitchin.

"playing with all the toys and hanging from the bar like a monkey"

Indiana 3-year-old climbs into oversized vending machine.

"first new monkey species discovered in Africa in more than 20 years"

Photos of the Highland Mangabey, monkey new to science.

"he is bearing the brunt of the monkeys that come into his house"

India's Minister of State for Human Resource Development unable to escape monkey menace.

"Acara's mother is still recovering"

Acara, baby orangutan born two weeks ago via cæsarean, on limited display at Utah's Hogle Zoo.

"years after hearing Jane Goodall speak, people strive to do what she has charged them with"

Queen of the Chimps Jane Goodall to demonstrate eerie powers in Salt Lake City.

"a deficiency of vitamin D"

Baby gorilla at Boston's Franklin Park Zoo treated for metabolic bone disease.

Lophocebus kipunji

Highland mangabey, said to be previously unknown to science, discovered in Tanzania. Local hunters knew it, though.

"A monkey is on the loose in Tokyo"

Monkey terrorizes Japanese capital.

"We saw monkeys eat their breakfast"

Fifth-graders spend the night at Arizona's Phoenix Zoo.

"The father is a 16-year-old silverback gorilla named Taz"

Kuchi, 20-year-old gorilla at Zoo Atlanta, expecting.

"Evillest little shits to fly"

Hitchcock warned about this.

"Regular zoo admission is needed to enter the birthday bash"

Tennessee's Chattanooga Zoo plans birthday party for Hank the Chimpanzee, 37, on June 4.

Goodbye, Angela

Angela, 23-year-old diabetic chimpanzee, euthanized at Belfast Zoo after massive secondary infection follows leg injury.

"we have registered 11 cases, including nine deaths"

World Health Organization confirms ebola-like disease in Republic of Congo is ebola.

"In many cases species would be lost forever if it were not for zoos"

Binti Jua, boy-friendly gorilla at Chicago's Brookfield Zoo, feeds her offspring, born May 2.

"spends 300 days a year lecturing and fundraising around the world"

Queen of the Chimps Jane Goodall continues fuzzy-minded one-worlder flying tour of terror, visits Douglass College today, Rutgers tomorrow.

"You are being watched"

Microsoft's Cybersecurity and Systems Management group unveils latest brainstorm: "honeymonkeys". Sticky!

"flagellin and a Yersina pestis antigen"

Vaccine protects mice from plague. Monkey tests next on the agenda.

"monkeys, lions, zebras and snakes"

Sandusky, OH gets a Kalahari Waterpark Resort.

"I'd like to get an orangutan"

NASCAR driver Jeremy Mayfield wants an ape.

"probably the most popular fruit in the world"

Consider the yummy banana.

The other night we painted postersWe played some records by the Coasters

Via Monkeys In The News, PETA loons on parade, at Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo.

"PETA US Files 253-Page Complaint With the USDA"

Shorter version: Don't volunteer for work as an animal-testing monkey!

"COBOL is like an invisible giant"

or an 800-pound gorilla, says COBOL vendor Micro Focus International Ltd.

"No one has ever complained"

Complaints made about no-longer-hanging giant stuffed monkey in Cobb County, GA.

"the Monkey God's Army"

Slate searches for, finds violent anti-Muslim Hindus.

"stump the scholar"

How are chimpanzees so darned strong?

"it is denied that this particular chimp was a wild animal"

November trial scheduled in Arkansas chimp attack lawsuit.

"studies have shown reduced consumption among alcohol-swilling monkeys"

Huh. Kudzu may be good for something, after all. Of course, heroin was going to solve the morphine addiction problem, so...

supporting our men and women serving in Iraq and Afghanistan

The good folks at Operation AC have a new site.

Laonastes aenigmamus: tastes like chicken

Rodent (of usual size) unknown to science discovered in Asian market.

"multiple simian viruses had crossed over from primates"

Two new retroviruses discovered infecting central African bushmeat fanciers.

"without saying what the message was he was trying to send"

Enigmatic giant monkey removed in Cobb County, GA.

"to amputate the arm of a small ape"

Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo keeps shining up its reputation.

"What makes a lion a lion?"

In the aftermath of recent animal deaths at Lincoln Park Zoo, philostopher at DePaul University questions whether to have zoos.

"I'm still coming back"

Queen of the Chimps Jane Goodall speaks at combined commencement of Syracuse University and SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry.

"I don't want anyone to make a profit on something we can't live without"

Connecticut's Danbury News Times is all over Queen of the Chimps Jane Goodall.

"don’t show any fear and bring snacks"

Behind the scenes with the zookeeper.

"Why should we wait?"

Fauna and Flora Indonesia, a London-based conservation group who all have nice houses to sleep in, has panties bunched because tsunami relief construction may be using illegal wood.

"called for them to be reclassified as Homo paniscus"

Researchers at Iowa's Great Ape Trust will be watching, always watching.

Update: and the last three bonobos have arrived.

"It was a bummer. We all felt bad"

Second squirrel monkey dies at Hawaii's Panaewa Rainforest Zoo following January rescue from the Blue Tropix nightclub.

"The Lincoln Park Zoo should be renamed the Lincoln Park Morgue"

Innumerate PETA loons to gather in Chicago.

"ethically controversial"

German scientists and horrible political/medical experiments. Who'da thunk?

"Mustafa is twice as strong as Arnold Schwarzenegger"

Like Born Free, but with orangutans.

"as tough as a monkey"

6-year-old Oregonian girl survives youthful driving experiment. The car, not so much.

"I think the public is going to want to know"

Chicago politician piles on in animal deaths at Lincoln Park Zoo.

"mangoes for monkeys"

India's Arinagar Anna Zoological Park fights the annual heat wave with a special summer diet.

"three other langur monkeys died unexpectedly this week"

Quarantine for one surviving langur at Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo.

"It's got a camera to help you locate a chimp"

Saint Louis Zoo opens "Fragile Forest" — new chimpanzee exhibit.

"strong suspicions among zoo experts that the deaths are connected to a change of exhibit"

Three Francois langur monkeys dead in one week at Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo.

Update: American Zoo and Aquarium Association turns up the heat.

"Zamora suddenly tried to stab the victim's monkey"

Construction worker in the Philippines murdered while defending his pet monkey.

"They haven't shown themselves to be reliable"

Honolulu City Council again delays construction of new enclosure for Rusti the orangutan.

"They touched a monkey they found dead in the forest and then ate it"

Eight deaths in Congo from something Ebola-like.

"Any move to capture it may have been risky"

South African baboon shooting causes controversy.

"it's a cliff combined with a forest"

13-year old South African boy "stable" after 100-metre fall sustained while chasing monkey.

"It somewhat renders obsolete our efforts to regenerate the forest"

Macaques that kill cedars victims, says Professor Andrea Camperio, who blames "increasingly sedentary" sheep and goat herders, who are neither victims nor tenured.

Goodbye, Sam

Sam, 57-year-old chimpanzee at Sacramento Zoo, euthanized, presumably for congestive heart failure, arthritis and colitis. Necropsy to follow.

"Duna bay law prohibiting anyone to keep a monkey for his pet?"

Monkey seized or stolen in the Phillipines.

"enjoyed little critical success"

Bonhams Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers to auction paintings by Congo the chimpanzee. Congo's whereabouts uncertain.

"win a family day out at the attraction and a chance to meet the lemurs"

Name the lemurs contest in UK's North Devon Gazette & Advertiser.

"the escaped monkeys are not dangerous"

Despite earlier reports putting their number at six, according to this story, 11 monkeys are on the loose in Louisiana.

Obsolete AP story, I think. This local report says 48 captured, five being sought.

"The baby only needs a little each day"

China's Chongqing city zoo seeks wet-nurse for baby macaque.

"a young monkey who didn't follow the rules"

Peter Caron, owner of Florida's Octagon Wildlife Sanctuary, dead at 66.

"Squirrel monkey baby deaths are normal in nature as well as in zoos"

Veterinarian charges inadequate care at Arizona's Phoenix Zoo. Rebuttal is offered.

Update: more

"a caretaker failed to properly secure a cage"

47 pigtail macaques, escaped from Tulane Primate Center in Covington, LA, recaptured. Six still on the loose!

Update: missing six believed to have taken to the trees, where a monkey has all the advantages.

"the overriding issue is how best to save the endangered Lowland gorilla"

South Africa in no hurry to abandon "Taiping Four" gorillas to unstable Cameroon.

"The program is free and open to the public on a first-come, first-seated basis"

Former Hollywood Square "Jungle" Jack Hanna to perform in Sturgis, MI area.

"This worm is no laughing matter"

Wurmark-K, email worm, displays picture of Snowflake, albino gorilla late of Barcelona Zoo, while it goes about its business.

"Primates are used primarily as models of human diseases"

Austria considers banning medical experiments on great apes, which they don't do anyway, content to benefit from the work of others.

"the girl and her father noticed a woman holding a monkey on a leash"

West Virginia girl reportedly bitten by monkey or monkeys unknown.

"Mom is a bit skeptical about whether the baby is hers"

Utah's Hogle Zoo surrogate mothering Sunday's Caesarean-born orangutan.

"$500-per-person dinner"

Queen of the Chimps Jane Goodall goes to Utah.

"the world's most intelligent and studied great ape"

Bonobos pile up, so to speak, at Iowa's Great Ape Trust.

"inhabited by vervet monkeys, bush pigs and baboons, which disturb farmers"

Control of Uganda bushmeat trade proceeding poorly.

"Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries"

New Zealand seizes 6-year old boy's illegally-imported "sea monkey" science project.

Down With Bipedalism!

Kansas evolution foes demand school board adopt "back to the trees" policy.

"a baby monkey trying to suckle milk from the breast of its dead mother"

Indian environmentalist sees turf-war between monkeys, mafia.

"There were a variety of races in there"

Jacksonville, FL's Robert E. Lee High School replaces year book photos of teachers with cartoons of monkeys.

"tranquilise, sterilise, band and release"

Indian Forest Department demands that National Defence Academy consider root causes, ask themselves "why do monkeys menace us?"

No monkey content

In Connecticut bird news:

Thaao, Andean condor at Bridgeport's Beardsley Zoo, turns 75.

Audubon Connecticut executive director Tom Baptist says Canada goose droppings never hurt anyone.

"they do not care about the public"

Unholy alliance of insurance salesmen, California legislators, and celebrity attorney Gloria Allred to mandate liability insurance for animal sanctuaries.

"The baby was too big for her"

Orangutan delivered by Ceasarean section at Utah's Hogle Zoo.

"from lemurs to hedgehog-like tenrecs"

The tale of the Giant Jumping Rat of Madagascar.

"there is no sharp line dividing us from the rest of the animal kingdom"

Queen of the Chimps Jane Goodall speaks for herself.

"chimpanzee and African elephants were the only animals kept at a distance"

The critters play chicken with your car at Florida's Lion Country Safari.

"he insists they follow long-honored codes of fencing etiquette"

Immigrant fencing master threatens:

I can teach a monkey how to lunge and parry.

"except for its dark "figure-eight"-shaped head"

Teddy Kennedy's delerium tremens hallucinations take physical form.

"lulled to sleep by the calls of ring-tailed lemurs"

California's Safari West: all the postcard opportunities of an African tent camp, none of the guerillas or filovirii.

"making life miserable for residents"

Local government fails to solve monkey menace in India's Henjagondanahalli.

"hamburgers and hot dogs will be available for lunch"

Carlsbad, NM's White’s Animal Kingdom looks to raise funds today.

"llama, alpaca and vicuna babies in the near future"

New lion-tailed macaques on display at Manitoba's Assiniboine Park Zoo.

"This has grave implications for biodiversity"

Anthropologist with a famous name mistakes himself for climatologist.

"apparently smells like bad eggs and goat dung"

Wherever David Shealy goes, he reminds people of Florida's "skunk ape".

"a 25-year-old, male bonobo"

Day by day, Iowa bonobo count increases.

"I'm at a loss at how it got over there"

Via Monkeys In The News, furtive escape attempt by future test subject from South Carolina's Morgan Island fails. Accomplices escape.

"at Battell Chapel"

Queen of the Chimps Jane Goodall comes to Connecticut.

"who carried a boy to safety after he fell into the apes' habitat in 1996"

Boy-friendly gorilla gives birth at Chicago's Brookfield Zoo.

"try copying everything it does"

How to annoy a monkey.

"Zoo residents won’t know what to think"

Humans to compete for the amusement of monkeys at Florida's Miami MetroZoo in Iron Ape Triathlon.

Scotch News

The Man won't let you see it for free, but from the précis on Google News, William Grant has released a new vatted malt, "Monkey Shoulder".

"the animals know what we're doing"

Confused activist speaks "ook ook" to power.

A bargain at half the price!

$20,000 primate center inaugurated in Accra, Ghana.

Croatoan

Things to see and do in and around Roanoke, VA.

Gleeful oozery

Biology classes question Darwin, but Darwin doesn't speak a word.

"drought, volcanism, fire and botulism"

Carnivous dinosaurs turned vegetarian, then they all died, mysteriously.

"a veil for neo-imperialism under the hegemony of United States"

Free-roaming communists found in Indian trade unions.

"We will be racing down a pathway that will lead to our own demise"

Iowa's Great Ape Trust continues to accumulate apes, Rumbaughs.

"appeared to be an ape-like human hybrid"

Canadian bigfoot video comes to US TV.

"best known for her studies of muriquis"

University of Wisconsin-Madison primatologist elected to the National Academy of Sciences.

"I don’t think that it’s a worm at all"

Tibetan Yetis threatened by Mongolian Death Worm.

"the first "snow monkey" births at the Minnesota Zoo since 1991"

Monkey-Mother's Day tie-in attempted in Minneapolis Star Tribune.

"littering in public places should be avoided"

New Delhi Municipal Council medical officer caught violating New Delhi Municipal Council's anti-litter regulations.

"They rented a monkey from the zoo"

Utah radio station replaces male staffers with a monkey. Al Franken in a panic?

"social dynamic changes''

Gorillas vie for power at Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo.

"Little Johnny, the 10-year-old circus monkey"

The circus comes to Stamford, CT.

"monkey, cat, rat, horse, pigs and even mongoose bites"

Reports of animal bites up in Chandigarh, India.

"The gorilla gave Wrestle Boy a stare"

People-watching at the Bronx Zoo.