“NOT REPAIRABLE”

Dateline Dallas: Out-of-control unidentified Christianist, probably maddened with churchification, attacks inflatable gorilla.

“It is their declaration of power”

Big cats nabbed in Mexican drug bust. Was the monkey the mastermind?

“had lost about 800 pounds”

I'm sure it speaks poorly of me, but my first thought on seeing news of the death at Zoo Atlanta of the pregnant elephant was 'how do you clean up after a thing like that?' Practical, not thoughtful, that's me.

“a primitive primate”

Pygmy slow loris debuts at Kansas's Lee Richardson Zoo. Small and easily caught, I assume.

Update: but thin on the ground (sorry, couldn't resist).

“The Institute of Greatly Endangered and Rare Species”

South Carolina chimpanzee fosters a pair of tiger cubs separated from their mother.

“ensuring optimum sunlight”

The monkey-shaped energy-saving lightbulb is pretty cool, but the flower pot that seeks out sunlight as it moves, presumably disturbing the cat, is unsettling.

“when triplets are born, one is usually abandoned”

Tiny newborn marmoset at UK's Knowsley safari park being reared by staff after mother, unable to feed three babies, abandons it.

Goodbye, Djambe

30-year-old female orangutan dead at UK's Colchester Zoo. Cause will be determined by a post mortem examination.

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Will KMXB join WFTV on the nekulturny list?

WBEZ joins the lèse majesté.

“corn has vanished at an alarming rate from deer feeders”

Escaped monkeys from Florida's Safari Wild are found, but still on the loose.

“in a hero-worship phase”

Sacramento Zoo welcomes their new chimpanzee, Doug.

“treating the monkey like his own child”

The special bond between a monkey and his dog, seen at Jiaozuo China's zoo.

“a search for an orangutan companion was unsuccessful”

Oldest U.S. registered orangutan in captivity, Tonda, and her cat T.K., see the sights at Panama City Beach's ZooWorld.

“bilingual and good-natured”

Mysore's zoo seeks a mate for its gorilla, Polo, fruitlessly.

Goodbye, Mumba

48-year-old silverback at Canada's Granby Zoo dead of natural causes.

“brown fur, hairless black face and long muzzle”

Detroit Zoo welcomes a pair of drills, absent from there for nearly 70 years. Damn dirty scientists let monkeys into the Great Apes of Harambee exhibit!

“proof enough”

A team of Japanese adventurers in Nepal have discovered, they say, yeti footprints.

“250,000 dollars”

Roadkill guts in Halloween costume bigfoot hoax sold on eBay.

“calls for an inquiry”

Is there a pattern to the 486 animal deaths at Australia's Melbourne Zoo in the last two years?

“charged with receiving stolen property”

Smoking is prejudicial to your health and your freedom!

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Home Science Tools Recalls Alnico Bar Magnets.

Global Handwashing Day

Make like a doctor: wash your hands!

“an important cognitive skill”

At least some gorillas smarter than previously thought, researcher says.

“un­ex­pected pred­a­to­ry lusts found among bo­no­bos”

Bonobos have a dark side, say experts.

More.

“there were no people willing”

When Malaysia needs it's coconuts picked, they may look to monkeys to do the job.

Meta, meta, meta

Had my flu shot today. All's well.

“four seriously injured”

14 injured in Rajahmundry monkey-menace panic.

“Samson is genetically important to the gorilla population”

More about the Nebraska gorilla-killing and what comes next.

“nothing like this has ever happened at the zoo before.”

Nebraska's Henry Doorly Zoo site of gorilla-on-gorilla killing

Update: Daddy Dearest

http://www.mona-uk.org/

A plea to save two UK chimpanzees from euthanasia.

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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission issues recall of Chinese-made MP3 players and necklaces for excessive lead.

“female dominance in lemurs has never been fully explained”

An interview with ringtailed lemur expert Alison Jolly. The lemurs have ring tails, not the expert, as I read it.

“amazingly clever and utterly foolish two-legged ape”

There's no future in politics science for you unless you loathe the human race.

“A tavern just north of Tokyo”

A Japanese restaurant where the waiters are monkeys.

Update: More with video.

“you’ll get to see the House with the Monkey”

Veliko Turnovo, a site to see when in Bulgaria.

(Background. "Between the two windows above the shop Kolyo Fitcheto has engraved a plate with the name of the owner and a talisman of the house - a frowned hunchbacked little man, his hands on his knees. A local wit compared him with a monkey and thus the house was given its nickname - the House with the Monkey.")

“There were no safety precautions”

Monkey at University of Pittsburgh bites laboratory worker, whose injuries include severe injury to her hand.

Single-minded Animal Hoarding

“800 Animals, Including Monkeys, Swans, Found During Kennel Raid”

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Who'd poison kiddy candy?

“from the neck up as very like a chimpanzee”

Display of Lucy, the world's most famous fossil, moves to Seattle this week.

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Even if it looks American at first glance.

“I will scare away all the monkeys”

Indian railway bosses combat monkey-menace with Gudde: a guy dressed up as a monkey.