“Tarsiers are prosimian primates”

Trouble brewing between splitters and lumpers in the Philippines.

“disagreeably human”

Darwin's theory, 150 years and going strong.

Not without opposition, though. (h/t The Emotional Pumpkin.

“Choppers circled the area”

Search for fleeing Moe the Chimpanzee widens.

Update: I bet he's in Juarez, wearing false glasses & moustache!

“If you happen upon a chimp”

Moe the Chimpanzee, who didn't savage his owner, St. James Davis, has escaped from his wildlife sanctuary.

More.

Update: Dragnet continues.

Meta, Meta, Meta

Template changes, may take a few days to fix things up therafter!

Update: Got haloscan comments turned back on, without stupid ratings and jury-rigged the McCain bumpersticker on top of the right column. I'm happy.

Works for hippies too, I hear

Stinky lemurs are happy lemurs.

“the point of the spear”

Spanish jails to fill with people who asked but would you want your sister to marry one?

“Porker of the Month”

Connecticut Senator Chris Dodd wins a prize. (h/t Novatownhall Blog.

“Tending a herd of goats”

Monkey put to work in India.

Goodbye Rooster

34-year-old DeBrazza's monkey at Mississippi's Hattiesburg Zoo euthanized after tumor found and health deteriorates.

Lemurs!

Bronx Zoo's new Madagascar exhibit: example and example.

“a warning sign”

World applauds as Austria gets strict with "animal rights" hooligans.

OMGFTW!!1!

Overreaching feds outlaw monkeys.

“advertising the Table Mountains range”

Radkow Poland to employ chimpanzee Bobby as Tourism Promotions Inspector.

“so that oil and food prices come down”

Indian group plans to present Barack Obama with a statue of monkey god Hanuman.

Chamber of Commerce speciesist?

Cheeta still not awarded star on Hollywood Walk of Fame.

“mugged in India… by a monkey”

International Herald Tribune offers travelers advice on “What to do with aggressive beggars and hawkers”

“trappers know where they are living”

10 of the 15 monkeys that escaped in Lakeland FL in March remain on the loose. I wonder if they have a breeding season.

“a cycle of reproduction and disease”

Play dates not in best interest for wild chimpanzees.

“future planning”

Apes demonstrate ability to plot ahead, say Swedish scientists.

“sexual politics influencing the mating calls”

British psychologists listen in on Chimpanzees during mating

“Can an aging lemur suffer from dementia?”

Aging inmates raise questions at US zoos.

“Cotu, short for Center of the Universe”

Auction winner names Kansas City Zoo’s baby chimpanzee.

“at no time were the apes in danger”

Iowa flooding as seen from the grounds of the Great Ape Trust of Iowa.

Update: big water

“Mootnick fears the worst ”

Apes at California's Gibbon Conservation Center stressed by encroaching hoi polloi with their McMansions and motor cars and offspring running and hopscotching and hey you kids, get off the gibbon's lawn!

“he received favorable mortgage rates”

You mean Connecticut Senator Chris Dodd has dubious ethics? I wonder where learned a thing like that? Will he have to go under the bus now?

“dumping toxic waste”

South Carolina's Spartanburg Animal Shelter disrupted by bitey Rhesus Monkey.

Goodbye, Rustie

23-year-old female chimpanzee dies while undergoing treatment at Maryland Zoo.

Update: officials say they're still puzzled

Don't know, I've never Durbed!

Dick Durbin threatens to condemn to hell those who object to Michelle Obama's inflammatory rhetoric.

(h/t: Rachel Lucas)

“the monkey is sociable”

A spider monkey effects a daring rooftop escape from Michigan City Washington Park Zoo. He was later captured while trying to commandeer a boat.

Update Corrected the name of the zoo.

Shocker!

Bury Free Press not a Canadian site! (Nor an imperative.)

“enormous internal and external areas”

Big enclosure for chimpanzees at Scotland's Edinburgh Zoo.

Life is Cheap in the Orient

Daily Times of Pakistan treats accidental electrocution of juggler as “Monkey handler gets shock of his life”. Boffo laughs, eh?

“he’d be in his 90s in human years”

Keo, 50-year-old chimpanzee at Chicago's Lincoln Park Regenstein Center for African Apes, celebrates his birthday.

“fibrosing cardiomyopathy”

Gorilla heart-monitoring program in Canada.

“silver-haired monkeys in Indonesia that fish”

Give a scientist a fish, he eats for a day. Teach a scientist to fish, he eats until the research grant expires..

“monkeys are perennial troublemakers”

Capture effected in recent case of rogue monkey injuring 37 villagers in India

“I don't like that monkey”

Surgery to save child's finger bitten by a New York City monkey. Monkey will suffer a rabies test.

“all visitors must enter the office barefoot.”

Monkey god Hanuman named chairman of Sardar Bhagat Singh College of Technology and Management in Lucknow, India.

“at a remote monastery in the Himalayas”

Polyanna Pickering sees a drawing of a yeti scalp. Seussian.

“phenomenal strength”

Chimpanzee protests liquor laws in Los Rechazos, Tenerife.

“difficult for him to act as president ”

Flushed with victory, Max rearms the Rhineland.

“the specific route of transmission remains unclear”

Spotty scientists and tourists pass on their ailments to Chimpanzees, researcher says.

“say No to short-term political or economic gains”

Jet-setting United Nations Messenger of Peace Dame Jane Goodall ("our lifestyles, commerce and policies are bankrupting the planet") has instructions for Lumpenproletariat on how to make do with lowered expectations.

“will live next to thee other gorillas”

Two gorillas get settled in at Dallas Zoo.

Goodbye, Oyin

International Fund for Animal Welfare announces the death of Oyin, one of the four "Taiping Gorillas".

“after he won a vote of confidence”

Max threatens: No more Mr. Nice-Guy!

“for easy, quiet movement”

Democrats say: Don't campaign without one.

“inflicted more than 100 bite wounds on her”

No-D gorilla-viewing glasses distributed at Rotterdam Zoo.

“why male chimpanzees possess the largest testes of all the great apes”

Sperm reconsidered.