“The star orangutan looks for his better half!”

leshen2005.blog.tom.com, a Chinese government blog advertising the need for a mate for Leshen, a six-year-old Sumatran orangutan at Hongshan Forest Zoo.

“Clowns give me the creeps”

How (and why!) coulrophobes want to stop Sarasota, FL officials from filling the sizewalks with 70 life-sized fiberglass clowns.

“on exhibit with their mothers”

Golden cheeked gibbon and Kikuyu colobus monkey born at Los Angeles Zoo in December.

“one of the alpha males of primate research”

A positive review of Frans de Waal's Our Inner Ape: The Best and Worst of Human Nature

“Bwana was such a gentle gorilla”

Fond memories of gorilla doings at the San Francisco Zoo.

“horse pipes”

Conservationists in Kenya build ladder-like monkey bridges to keep monkeys from being struck while crossing the busy highways below. Bridges are pictured here.

“leap several feet out of the water and grab birds or monkeys out of trees”

The Georgia Aquarium has Arawanas, but no monkeys for them to grab.

“bit at least 25 people”

Monkey runs amok in Maharashtra, India.

History shows / there's not a chance in hell

Some claim to be Anastasia, some to be Pavlov's bastard daughter.

“Dog Writers Association of America award”

Chef to the dogs to co-author Jane Goodall's next book about herself.

The Next-to-Last of the Mohicans

The prequel. (The Last-but-one of the Mohicans? Too anglophile.)

it`s too shrill, man

Howler monkey born at OK's Tulsa Zoo.

“A male gorilla has the most wonderful pungent smell”

2005 in review - Animals

“to check first if the case is a true one”

Malaysian Wildlife Department to investigate claims of Bigfoot sightings.

“killed in mysterious circumstances in 1985”

Rwanda honors Dian Fossey on the 20th anniversary of her death.

Not misinformed

Japanese Macaques visit Jigokudani-Onsen to take the waters.

“Monkeys enter into houses and take things while door is open”

Another day, another Indian village menaced by monkeys.

“People tease these animals regularly”

India's Byculla zoo-goers not ideal guests.

“Squirrel monkeys: buckets of dried fruit and nuts”

Christmas for the animals at Canada's Edmonton Valley Zoo.

“openly, methodically, set out to ignore the doctrine of separation of church and state”

Hisayoshi Watanabe, Japan's Intelligent Design advocate.

“I need a monkey”

Mystery gifter deposits hundreds of stuffed animals beneath Idaho statehouse holiday tree.

Someone else's tax dollars at work

Australian government to retire Perth Zoo's $17.6 million debts. Perth Zoo to begin accumulating new debt.

“fraternity members”

Return of the Giant Inflatable King Kong.

Ten years ago today

Gorillas, orangutans, gibbons and lemurs die in fire at Philadelphia Zoo.

“two gorillas and 10 tigers died in the Zoo”

Retired Curator of Mysore Zoo blames Forest officials for late-1970's animal deaths.

“Romina is very protective but loves to show him off”

Romina, 25-year-old western lowland gorilla at UK's Bristol Zoo, recipient of successful cataract surgery, a good mother to her 7-month-old son, Namoki,

“just before midnight — Greenwich Mean Time”

I question the timing!

“He may be sourcing food from within the zoo somewhere”

Australia's Western Plains Zoo locked down in search for (human) murderer.

“The menace of monkeys claimed the life of a villager”

Indian man dies after falling from tree while defending house from monkey attack.

“I learned many things”

Skills transfer for African veterinarians at Maryland Zoo's Mountain Gorilla Veterinary Project.

“this date in history”

December 23, 1956: Ohio's Columbus Zoo welcomes the first birth of a captive-born gorilla

“Come on, Kiki, let's go home”

King Kong an excuse for a couple of gorilla anecdotes.

“that’s when we discovered it was missing”

33-foot inflatable King Kong swiped from Springfield, MO theater roof.

“Monkey Claus is coming to town”

Katrina evacuee philanthropist to distribute sock monkeys in New Orleans.

It aint sanitary!

Via Possumblog, eeyew.

Your tax dollars at work!

Geneticists refine time of divergence of human and chimpanzee lines to 5 to 7 million years ago. Cladists remain mum (and smug).

“Kudlo, the monkey man”

Monkey-impersonator a local attraction in Puranapanj, India.

“Zoo researchers document menopause in gorillas”

I did not know that.

“choked by her school hat cord from monkey bars”

Nanny-state seen as not all-knowing in antipodean shocker. Further rule-making seen as solution.

“Josef Stalin wanted to develop a super army”

Murderous and stupid.

“he had gone to see a particular type of chimpanzee”

Safari-bound candlemaker snuffed.

“That's not how they behave!”

Primate supervisor for the Rio Grande Zoo says King Kong no documentary.

“It looks like an Ernst Wilhelm Nay”

Art “expert” is mocked.

“far too seriously”

King Kong audiences charged with racism, homophobia.

“whatever your heart desires”

Making the sock monkey.

“supplying Schatten with eggs that had been illegally obtained”

U.S. mad scientist fears South Korean counterpart may be bad apple that spoils the barrel for him.

“nocturnal attacks on children and elderly by these nasty creatures”

Monkeys seize territory, demand autonomy, in disputed Indian-admininistered Kashmir.

“such acts will not be tolerated”

Seven Indonesian orangutans rescued from show business in Malaysia.

“We hope to have total access”

More direct flights from Singapore to go gawp at orangutans in Malaysia.

I do believe, I do believe...

I do believe in Abominable Snowmen & such.

“Lincoln was often cartooned as an ungainly ape”

Wartime defeatism has a long history in USA, says Victor Davis Hanson.

“says Dr Hwang has admitted faking at least some of the results”

Korean mad scientist apparently more clever than genius.

“arguably the world's slowest-breeding land mammal”

Bornean orangutan born at New Zealand's Auckland Zoo.

Yeah, that'll work

Adventures in defective child-rearing: pre-written apology post-its, they just check the appropriate boxes. More gruesome details.

“volcano rabbit and monkey-faced bats”

I find it difficult to muster much sympathy for a species, endangered though it be, that's evolved a survival stategy of living only on the slopes of four volcanoes.

“The experiments have to be done”

Are you thinking what I'm thinking, Pinky?

Excuses, excuses

King Kong floods news stories, drowning out search for legitimate primate stories.

“I started punching but it became more aggressive”

Businessman fights off monkey attack in Malaysia.

“with monkeys "capturing" some wells in dry regions”

Planet of the Apes scenario draws ever closer.

“public concern can now abate”

"Potentially-dangerous" escaped chimpanzee shot dead in northern England.

Update: And now the yapping starts

“A case is now being readied against the monkey’s owner”

Neighbor's pet monkey kills girl in Philippines. Via Monkeys In The News.

“See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil”

Oil-thirsty Luddites stymied in attempts to derail operating license renewal for CT's Millstone Units 2 and 3 Nuclear power plants.

“Violet will remain in quarantine for 30 days”

Honolulu Zoo takes delivery of new special friend for Rusti the Orangutan.

Kansas seen as a hub for willful ignorance

“These evolutionists are saying that Jesus was half-chimpanzee, so was Mohammed and Buddha&rdquo

“We hope to educate the public about the disappearing rain forests”

Monkey trainers at New Jersey's Six Flags Great Adventure are visited with as King Kong tie-ins run amok.

“Faecal samples from the four apes were sent to independent laboratories”

Cameroon charges exploitation, mishandling of "Taipeng Four" gorillas.

“there are some fictitious parts”

France Television monkey specials edited for extra heart-warmingness, Korea's donga.com charges.

“monkeys crawling on people, for instance”

Researcher/activists claim Indonesia's urban performing monkeys founts of contagious disease.

“turning used chip fat into motor fuel is a good thing”

Clearing forest for palm oil plantations to make biodiesel bad, says useful-idiot poster child George Monbiot.

“male monkeys like to play with toy cars”

“Monkeys show gender differences in toy preferences, research finds”

I didn't know monkeys had gender, but they sure have sex!
(Ba-dum Dum)

“see what happens when the chimpanzees are put to bed”

New Zealand's Wellington Zoo to celebrate “The Truth about Great Apes week” and King Kong cross-promotion festival.

“the Bill would also allow a prohibition affecting zoos”

Royal Scottish Zoological Society and Edinburgh Zoo express concern that Scottish Parliament wants “counter-productive and overly bureaucratic” authority to ban some species.

“osteoarthritis in the hinge on the right side of his jaw”

Successful surgery on Motaba the gorilla at Australia's Melbourne Zoo.

Hey! Google News carries Joe Gandelman now

No Reel Apes campaign pleased that King Kong features no real apes.

“their testicles are many times larger than those of gorillas”

British scientists claim inverse relationship between sizes of brain, testicles. Some bats, they say, must be very smart.

“the quake has halted plans to expand it by adding four monkeys”

Pakistanis displaced by earthquake move into aviary at local zoo.

“The university denies the allegations”

Louisiana Ethics (sic) Board to hear complaints of animal cruelty at University of Louisiana.

Hmmm, tapetum

Unrevealing photo and artists conception drawing of Borneo mystery critter.

But soon though, any time now...

No veterinary facilities at Pakistan's Lahore Zoo.

“a large leaf obscured the creature’s face”

WWF announces the discovery of previously-unknown (to them) carnivore in Borneo. Details remain a bit murky:

The pictures show an enigmatic, red-furred creature with tiny ears and distinctive markings. The leaf that obscures its face makes it impossible to say if it has a pointed snout like a dog or fox, or a flat face like a cat. A second photo, from behind, shows it to have a long, bushy tail rather like a fox, and large hind legs. It is slightly larger than a domestic cat.

They want it declared endangered.

Update 12/06: Invasive Species Weblog wonders if it might be an invasive species.

“most VHF is zoonotic”

Congo Viruses: Marburg, Ebola, Lassa, Crimean-Congo, and more. What to worry about during lapses in your avian flu obsession.

“no one has scientifically proved that baby animals are soothed by nestling in real fur”

Even if you're probably a loony, not everything you do is guarenteed to be harmful.

“python in search of a monkey meal”

Snake photographer wins seven of eight categories of International Herpetological Symposium photo awards.

“an 800-pound gorilla in the room”

Showtime's “Sleeper Cell” to do for (fictional) terrorists what “The Sopranos” did for gangsters.

“graceful, leathery and enormous”

Great apes fascinate us, saysthe UK's Sunday Herald.

“the males get riled if you shoot them”

Gorillas in literature, through history.

“the ground was strewn with caps and hats of all sorts”

Shimla, India: have your pockets rifled by monkeys and get a pony ride!

“The Animal Welfare Board is planning protests”

Indian activists demand that ban on tigers, leopards, lions, deer and monkeys in movies be enforced.

“to inspire our public to value the presence of living things in our lives”

Twin Saki Monkeys born at Minnesota's Como Zoo.

“Their bite is as bad as a rottweiler's”

Roaming capuchin monkey collared in Holman, KY. Owner sought found.

“overheating of the room in which the animals were housed”

UC Davis pays $4,815 fube-like penalty for the August 2004 deaths of seven monkeys.

“little edible balls called Primatreats”

47-year-old chimpanzee at Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo an internet addict

“nicknames like The Beak, The Gorilla and The Doctor”

EU hoodlums feel threatened by Bulgarian gangsters.

"No Reel Apes"

Daryl Hannah to join Queen of the Chimps Dr. Jane Goodall in calling for an end to the use of great apes in entertainment.