“wearing a disguise with intent”

Suspect arrested in Canada's "gorilla-mask bandit" case.

“a clear partisan division”

Political furor over culling of Gibraltar's "barbary apes".

“not actually checking tops and tails”

Political correctness comes to Australia's Adelaide Zoo.

“it was quite bad”

Andrew Rosindell, the man who would be UK's minister for animal welfare, bitten by "barbary ape".

“What happened next?”

Q & A with the professor of obstetrics and gynecology who performed a hysterectomy on a gorilla last month.

“now diverted to the Bitukura group”

Tourists inconvenienced as Rushegura gorillas move from Uganda's Bwindi Impenetrable Forest national Park to the DRC Congo for the post-Labor Day season.

Stay alive, don't buy Chinese!

Deadly Enterobacter sakazakii in San Lu milk powder.

“a man swinging a hammer demanded money”

Ape Man Bandit identified, police say.

“being hand fed on a special formula”

UK's Noah's Ark Zoo saving a baby Siamang Gibbon after her mother failed to produce any milk, with a toy camel and a pipette.

“among the nation’s highest”

Georgia's Chehaw Wild Animal Park gets AZA accreditation renewed.

Goodbye, Joe

45-year-old Silverback dies after a short illness at UK's Twycross Zoo.

“unable to prosecute a defendant who has died”

North Carolina can't prosecute a dead man, even for disquieting crimes. Andy Griffith was never like this!

Weed of crime bears stupid fruit

Pennsylvania monkey-thief caught after posting his whereabouts on his MySpace page.

“you never know what somebody's intentions are”

Gorilla chased by banana prank brings trespassing charges.

Update: Charges dropped.

“whole body knowledge”

Both chimpanzees and the primatologists who love them never forget a facebehind.

“coaxed into a nearby barn and caged”

Canada's most famous missing monkey recovered safe and sound.

Goodbye, Jodie

Little Rock AR's Zoo's oldest chimpanzee dies during medical procedure.

Release the hounds!

Japan to employ dogs against monkey menace.

“Why would you want to steal a monkey?”

Two pigtailed macaques recovered in Agency, Mo. One still missing.

“information on a confidential basis”

Hush-hush on Gibraltar "ape" culling.

“bit off a big chunk of flesh”

Group of those cute little Rhesus monkeys terribly bite zoo worker in India.

Update: More.

“isn't alone in the man-boob trend”

Physique of Monkees' Davy Jones is criticized.

“Her head had been severed from her body”

Stolen robot gorilla returned to owner, damaged.

Soon enough, great herds of artificial monkey, sweeping majestically across the high veldt

Artificially breeding monkeys in China.

No HIPAA for apes!

Surgeons perform hysterectomy on 40-year-old western lowland gorilla in North Carolina.

Update: The Jamaican perspective.

“a possible carrier of the herpes-B virus”

Ontario shivers as habitually-escaping monkey escapes again.

“the monkey opened a gas can near a spark”

Arsonist monkey burns home in North Carolina.

The adults are black & white, infants are orange

Baby Francois' langur born at OH's Toledo Zoo.

“We are pressing charges”

Stolen gorilla robot recovered. The owner's maker's youtube video. The thief's youtube video.

“Break, Enter, Auto theft and Robbery squad”

Canadian police hunt a hammer-wielding gorilla-masked robber in Hamilton, Ontario.

“British Association Science Festival”

Otherwise-unoccupied scientists prove stressed chimpanzees benefit from a nice hug.

Goodbye, Jenny

55-year-old female, the oldest gorilla in captivity, of the Dallas Zoo, euthanized due to an inoperable stomach tumor.

More complete.

Today's crisis:the monkey glut

China's Guizhou province doubles its population of endangered snub-nosed monkeys.

“This monkey is driving us crazy”

Times of India reports on a monkey loose in Tokyo.

So Near, and Yet So, So Far

Scientists study the genetics going on behind opposable thumbs and big toes, which we have and our relatives, the chimpanzees, lack.

“no questions will be asked if the gorilla is promptly returned intact”

8-foot-tall mechanical gorilla burgled in Maine.

Update: Gorilla recovered undamaged, charges pressed.

Goodbye, Nippy

Gibbon, nearly 60 years old, at New Zealand's Wellington Zoo, euthanized after his health rapidly deteriorated.

Sahelanthropus tchadensis

Controversy gathers around prehistoric fossil and its age.