MonkeyWatch

tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56467532012-01-25T13:08:20.881-05:00MonkeyWatch"Now I am become President, the destroyer of economies"Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16127439381646667165noreply@blogger.comBlogger69541100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5646753.post-62086167918182632082011-10-13T04:32:00.004-04:002011-10-13T08:26:15.396-04:00“the first zoo-born male orangutan to be released”

Semeru, a Sumatran orangutan born at Australia's Perth Zoo, will be released into Bukit Tigapuluh National Park in Sumatra.Updated: Oh yeah, a link, now I remember how to blog!

Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16127439381646667165noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5646753.post-21624545172027339742011-10-12T04:59:00.002-04:002011-10-12T05:02:38.145-04:00“he needs some consistency in care”

Democratic Republic of Congo gorilla-nappers lured with $40,000, caught, baby gorilla rescued.

Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16127439381646667165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5646753.post-80900767639273091932011-10-11T08:42:00.001-04:002011-10-11T08:45:05.220-04:00“which the yeti marks his territory”

Siberians send yeti to Occupy Wall Street, sanitary conditions improve.

Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16127439381646667165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5646753.post-31575156840088376362011-10-10T09:21:00.002-04:002011-10-10T09:26:36.018-04:00“managed to breach the perimeter in seconds”

The new gorilla enclosure at Australia's Werribee Zoo found wanting in test by "professional abseilers".

Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16127439381646667165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5646753.post-50346612841085990032011-10-08T11:19:00.001-04:002011-10-08T11:21:46.135-04:00“unlikely friends”

Here, ducky, ducky, ducky!

Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16127439381646667165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5646753.post-49203710394929361432011-10-06T12:42:00.001-04:002011-10-06T12:44:27.870-04:00Well, I've got this blog and...

So, at 56, what is it that I've accomplished?

Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16127439381646667165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5646753.post-29125039770468379692011-10-03T09:26:00.001-04:002011-10-03T09:27:55.502-04:00“an uncomplicated birth”

UK's Bristol Zoo and Gardens welcomes new baby lowland gorilla.

Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16127439381646667165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5646753.post-35872142552782489852011-10-03T08:45:00.001-04:002011-10-03T08:47:57.524-04:00Apparently Little Squinty got cold feet

"Iran postpones monkey's ride into space"

Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16127439381646667165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5646753.post-13525001463882122972011-09-16T10:04:00.000-04:002011-09-16T10:05:53.430-04:00Looking, not so much seeing

One of the things that the stroke took was my pleasure in reading. Iused to never be without a book on the train, one of the majorbenefits of commuting by rail: no need to keep an eye on the road.It's more difficult now: I'm less able to maintain concentrationacross a full line of text (which always was difficult due to my weakclose vision in the right eye). Martina's sensible suggestion

Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16127439381646667165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5646753.post-52520574006952458312011-09-14T16:07:00.002-04:002011-09-14T16:10:49.983-04:00Zombie apocalypse postponed

Texas the site of monkey apocalypse Waller, Grimes counties overrun! Connection to wildfires unproven!

Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16127439381646667165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5646753.post-3376885307581606362011-09-14T11:06:00.001-04:002011-09-14T11:09:23.506-04:00Next it'll be 'musings', I knew it'd come to this some day!

Well, I see again I've fallen out of the habit, and hardly have the inclination to start again, but let's try personal anecdotes, see if that helps:Two or three years ago I had a problem after a small aneurysm in thefovea of one eye which did no lasting harm, but was scary. It mightnot have been noticed except in such an important part of the retina,the very spot where the sharpest vision occurs.

Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16127439381646667165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5646753.post-11644543913996290962011-09-01T09:17:00.002-04:002011-09-01T09:21:33.317-04:00Goodbye, Timbo!

A 49-year-old female gorilla failed to awake from anesthesia after dental and eye surgery at Dallas Zoo Tuesday.

Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16127439381646667165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5646753.post-32359007967583124432011-08-31T16:11:00.002-04:002011-08-31T16:14:11.924-04:00“Marjorie Partch just wants the right to bring her mother home”

Primacy of freely-signed contracts between individuals empowered to do so and crony capitalism.

Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16127439381646667165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5646753.post-81514984932010221772011-08-31T09:48:00.002-04:002011-08-31T09:53:11.185-04:00“Mental Floss ”

Capuchin monkeys 'cautious, observant shoppers,' reports Yale University Department of Psychology. Remarkably, monkeys not yet said to act just like members of any socio-political group. Later today when bloggers take note, I bet.

Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16127439381646667165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5646753.post-84520302996446240142011-08-27T06:01:00.004-04:002011-08-27T08:57:14.227-04:00“A possible new species of monkey has been discovered”

A new species of Callicebus monkey may have been discovered, with remarkable features at head and tail, this MSNBC article fails to explain, doing for internet journalism what their common-law parents did for the community's daily newspaper.

Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16127439381646667165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5646753.post-12693859174603474732011-08-26T04:43:00.002-04:002011-08-26T04:47:36.733-04:00Goodbye, Hondo

36-year-old male chimpanzee dies at North Carolina Zoo of the effects of amyloidosis.

Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16127439381646667165noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5646753.post-34482433124533675092011-08-25T04:50:00.002-04:002011-08-25T04:52:56.954-04:00“before the rest of us felt the shaking”

Always one of my favorite logical fallacies: confirmation bias.

Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16127439381646667165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5646753.post-37587583562456101182011-08-24T05:01:00.002-04:002011-08-24T05:05:28.491-04:00“readier to use sex”

Chimpanzee sore losers complain that bonobo victor slept her way to the top.

Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16127439381646667165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5646753.post-10672481308335701532011-08-23T05:05:00.001-04:002011-08-23T05:07:51.696-04:00“scenes of the mammalian pastoral”

Britain's decline continues apace.

Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16127439381646667165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5646753.post-81472287786998458472011-08-22T05:21:00.002-04:002011-08-22T05:24:44.832-04:00“the orangutan refused to share the wet towel”

Orangutan at Japan's Tama Zoological Park observed wetting a cloth to cool itself.

Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16127439381646667165noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5646753.post-66567148320869149722011-08-21T18:02:00.002-04:002011-08-21T18:06:43.337-04:00Happy Birthday, Kiki!

Western lowland gorilla at Boston's Franklin Park Zoo celebrated her 30th birthday with special treats Sunday, with her daughters Kira, 12, Kimani, 6, and Kambiri, 9 months.

Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16127439381646667165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5646753.post-30076536987488798342011-08-21T08:35:00.002-04:002011-08-21T08:38:05.585-04:00“people who buy monkeys from breeders will come to regret the purchase”

Born Free USA Primate Sanctuary, in Texas, takes stand against the breeding and sale of pet monkeys.

Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16127439381646667165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5646753.post-64773113972097946292011-08-20T06:05:00.002-04:002011-08-20T06:09:05.795-04:00“Mandrills are the largest monkey”

Curious behavior of an understimulated infant mandrill in Yageer Zoo in Ningbo, China. Everybody laughing now, please.

Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16127439381646667165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5646753.post-23601111542062559262011-08-19T05:29:00.000-04:002011-08-19T05:34:04.972-04:00“Great Ape Heart Healthy program”

Dara, orangutan at Rochester NY's Seneca Park Zoo, gets a clean bill of health.

Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16127439381646667165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5646753.post-24587997117988692472011-08-18T12:24:00.000-04:002011-08-18T12:25:21.318-04:00Goodbye, Harvey

Last surviving chimpanzee at the Toledo Zoo succumbs.

Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16127439381646667165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5646753.post-49960948164049382312011-08-18T12:16:00.002-04:002011-08-18T12:20:44.840-04:00“Just a scratch”

8 year old girl in Springfield, MO victimized by macaque at Walmart.

Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16127439381646667165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5646753.post-45127404431682974322011-08-18T05:07:00.002-04:002011-08-18T05:11:28.894-04:00Rolo, Twix, Flake, Rocky, Snickers, Minstrel, Malteser, Yorkie, Wisper, Kit Kat and Twirl

Bolivian squirrel monkey Bounty, at London Zoo, fathered his 11th offspring Rolo, last month.

Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16127439381646667165noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5646753.post-12688225459645651872011-08-17T11:44:00.000-04:002011-08-19T05:35:41.613-04:00A note from my friend, Marjorie Partch:

We have been reluctant to intrude with this tragic story, but also hoping that this community would rally around one of its longtime members in her time of dire need. Mrs. Dorothy Partch taught English at Brien McMahon High School for 20 years, retiring in 1994. In 2003, she suffered a mild stroke, and her daughter Marjorie (Class of 1975) moved back home to take care of her. Last year, Mrs.

Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16127439381646667165noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5646753.post-75495949323466379802011-08-17T04:43:00.001-04:002011-08-17T04:48:42.056-04:00“£465,000 in royalties”

Celebrity-primatologist Dame Jane Goodall sues baby food firm Sprout Foods in dispute over payments for Janey Baby brand.

Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16127439381646667165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5646753.post-13570935784513782762011-08-16T05:14:00.002-04:002011-08-16T05:18:49.554-04:00“in northwestern Wyoming”

Oldest fingernails in modern primates discovered in Teilhardina brandti.

Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16127439381646667165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5646753.post-52468545815771400952011-08-15T04:56:00.001-04:002011-08-15T04:59:48.098-04:00“he puts the baboons first ”

"Wild About Monkeys" at MontanaFair, Billings.

Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16127439381646667165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5646753.post-37432688586141283822011-08-14T08:52:00.002-04:002011-08-14T08:56:16.540-04:00“from a retirement facility in New Mexico to an active research laboratory”

Transfer of old sick chimpanzees to Texas research lab.

Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16127439381646667165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5646753.post-83914843973801358222011-08-12T04:41:00.002-04:002011-08-12T04:44:54.862-04:00Also Ted Nugent and free lunch!

LemurLand representing at Sioux Empire Fair up close and personal

Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16127439381646667165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5646753.post-64920386600988882442011-08-11T05:11:00.002-04:002011-08-11T05:14:44.317-04:00“a walk-through lemur encounter”

Lemurs recently brought to the Welsh Mountain Zoo reportedly baffled by Welsh signage.

Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16127439381646667165noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5646753.post-8791916103494371992011-08-10T10:13:00.001-04:002011-08-10T10:16:55.734-04:00Or so the Grauniad says:

Bonobos share stuff and enjoy the odd orgy while Pan troglodytes is too busy fighting over every little thing.

Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16127439381646667165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5646753.post-70820666581192921702011-08-09T04:56:00.002-04:002011-08-09T05:01:03.700-04:00“estimated at about 8-months-old”

Baby Mountain Gorilla confiscated from poachers by Rwandan police on the border of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16127439381646667165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5646753.post-78869930532399537052011-08-07T15:22:00.001-04:002011-08-07T15:24:48.518-04:00“monkeys are capable of functioning as armies”

New Delhi's monkeys learn to fight back against langurs.

Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16127439381646667165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5646753.post-61990690088017387632011-08-06T17:25:00.001-04:002011-08-06T17:27:25.138-04:00“named Monkey”

Illicit baboon seized in Madison, WI.

Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16127439381646667165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5646753.post-58592843231290224342011-08-05T13:52:00.001-04:002011-08-05T13:55:37.700-04:00“and will blow-dart them with tranquilizer”

Chaos erupts as police and monkeys openly battle at Shelbyville, TN

Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16127439381646667165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5646753.post-57269652672380824232011-08-04T12:26:00.002-04:002011-08-04T12:29:34.106-04:00“extraordinary monkeys”

Milly the mandrill at UK's Colchester Zoo plays peekaboo.

Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16127439381646667165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5646753.post-65176134352738959622011-08-03T15:22:00.001-04:002011-08-03T15:25:39.439-04:00Goodbye, Timmy!

Timmy, a 52-year-old Silverback gorilla, was euthanized Tuesday at Louisville Zoo due to declining heart health and other quality of life issues.

Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16127439381646667165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5646753.post-18023722127025642292011-08-03T05:11:00.001-04:002011-08-03T05:13:35.884-04:00“the cotton top shares its hairstyle”

Huh, who knew, otherwise socially conscious Canada a hot-bed of speciesism!

Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16127439381646667165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5646753.post-35505029892951544962011-08-02T05:04:00.001-04:002011-08-02T05:07:13.739-04:00"huge"

20 million year old ape skull found in Uganda.

Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16127439381646667165noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5646753.post-20347842774360095822011-07-30T11:12:00.001-04:002011-07-30T11:14:57.071-04:00Bad idea, this is how trouble starts

Thai zoo uses captive chimpanzee labor to raise valuable tiger cub.

Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16127439381646667165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5646753.post-59276713033014372192011-07-28T10:53:00.003-04:002011-07-28T10:59:34.267-04:00Ooh-la-la!

Badongo the gorilla, newly arrived from La Vallee des Singes casts a speculative eye at the local talent at Jersey's Durrell wildlife park, where gorilla Jambo stood guard in 1968, protecting a boy who'd fallen into his enclosure.

Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16127439381646667165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5646753.post-58937916890885480722011-07-27T10:54:00.002-04:002011-07-27T10:58:26.034-04:00“but it is still a challenge”

Six orphaned gorillas come home to the DRC.

Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16127439381646667165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5646753.post-55474890597204492092011-07-25T13:24:00.003-04:002011-07-25T13:27:37.768-04:00“increased by 54 percent”

What's that noise behind us? Was it an increasingly numerous Chimpanzee?

Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16127439381646667165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5646753.post-79495816249874593442011-07-24T07:29:00.002-04:002011-07-24T07:34:38.488-04:00Happy Birthday, Stumpy!

Europe's oldest ring tailed lemur celebrates 25th birthday at Five Sisters Zoo in Polbeth Scotland.

Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16127439381646667165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5646753.post-48232172217683844612011-07-23T11:10:00.002-04:002011-07-23T11:12:55.382-04:00“only a monkey without hair”

Mangy monkey serially mistaken for a bunny and a alien visitor.

Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16127439381646667165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5646753.post-18872038502356266202011-07-21T15:25:00.002-04:002011-07-21T15:28:04.291-04:00“titi monkey adenovirus”

In case there aren't enough diseases to kill you yet, monkeys invent more.

Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16127439381646667165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5646753.post-16083703828569567972011-07-21T11:23:00.001-04:002011-07-21T11:24:58.682-04:00“Never touch a gorilla!”

Going out of your way to see the gorillas.

Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16127439381646667165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5646753.post-18147035687441704722011-07-20T20:25:00.002-04:002011-07-20T20:30:52.036-04:00Chinese monkey menace, it seems

China needs more monkeys, if this isn't satire. Me, I got my doubts.

Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16127439381646667165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5646753.post-80937903609844204392011-07-19T09:29:00.002-04:002011-07-19T09:32:01.947-04:00“and dresses them up in tiny outfits”

Foreigners are mocking us because of you, dern old monkey lady!

Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16127439381646667165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5646753.post-12549961231006039202011-07-18T19:07:00.002-04:002011-07-18T19:11:37.133-04:00Happy Birthday, Maggie!

Orangutan at Chicago's Brookfield Zoo marks a milestone with carrot-and-sweet-potato cake.

Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16127439381646667165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5646753.post-45304564315139887282011-07-17T19:17:00.002-04:002011-07-17T19:19:49.533-04:00“we can’t do anything but wait for the monkeys to leave”

As if monkey menace weren't enough before, now add rabies.

Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16127439381646667165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5646753.post-10021384966612728132011-07-17T09:28:00.002-04:002011-07-17T09:35:08.264-04:00One paragraph for the story, one for the mission statement

One-week-old silver leaf monkey Thai removed from care of first-time mother who was doing it wrong, say San Diego Zoo animal care staff.

Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16127439381646667165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5646753.post-48681579614394255162011-07-16T17:28:00.001-04:002011-07-16T17:31:34.363-04:00“Red Ruffed Lemurs will have a large toy”

Animal Enrichment Day at Bloomington, IL's Miller Park Zoo.

Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16127439381646667165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5646753.post-57300915118290435152011-07-15T22:37:00.002-04:002011-07-15T22:40:25.687-04:00“she was attacked from behind”

In Bangalore, monkey menace yields to monkey terror.

Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16127439381646667165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5646753.post-86654438169376434262011-07-15T15:02:00.002-04:002011-07-15T15:06:40.972-04:00Even on radio, kids and animals

Bubba the Monkey: 0, Gorilla Glass: 1.

Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16127439381646667165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5646753.post-22437659221064511872011-07-14T20:56:00.002-04:002011-07-14T21:00:04.551-04:00I got your Ebsen sauce hangin, boy!

Bangor ME parolee banged up for getting high on monkey dust, as the kids call it.

Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16127439381646667165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5646753.post-55538084002163327912011-07-14T18:43:00.006-04:002011-07-14T18:51:27.765-04:00Dick the Red to Primates:

Drop dead. Or 'take your stinking paws off of me, you damned dirty ape'. I can't decide between the Ed Koch reference or the Planet of the Apes one.The bloggers lot is not a happy one. (You see what I did there? A gratuitous Gilbert and Sullivan hat tip!)

Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16127439381646667165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5646753.post-72788775094857034572011-07-14T09:09:00.003-04:002011-07-14T09:14:50.782-04:00S/W slash FTW

I keep two copies of Elements of Style, third edition, on my desk at work in case one gets borrowed.

Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16127439381646667165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5646753.post-31580506081267877072011-03-20T09:57:00.002-04:002011-03-20T10:01:41.282-04:00“lovely gentle animals”

New home for two rescued lemurs in Northern Ireland.

Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16127439381646667165noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5646753.post-60195980707262995082011-03-20T09:45:00.002-04:002011-03-20T09:50:27.109-04:00“staked to the ground”

Kalispell Police Department reports a large, inflatable gorilla was stolen Friday.

Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16127439381646667165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5646753.post-4515983102866874232011-03-19T08:25:00.003-04:002011-03-19T08:32:39.441-04:00“import permits, health certificates and laboratory reports”

Insufficiently amused by the glittering, if delayed, world of Formula One motor racing, Richard Branson to populate his private island with dozens of ring-tailed lemurs.

Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16127439381646667165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5646753.post-16775590431896889732011-03-19T06:52:00.002-04:002011-03-19T06:57:12.159-04:00“the first zoo to help an orangutan use a breast pump”

Two orangutan babies meet their public for the first time at Fresno's Chaffee Zoo.

Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16127439381646667165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5646753.post-37293618440994743832011-03-18T12:12:00.002-04:002011-03-18T13:48:15.095-04:00Goodbye, Haloko

44-year-old female Western Lowland gorilla Haloko, the only wild-born gorilla at the National Zoo, euthanized yesterday, suffering effects of congestive heart failure.

Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16127439381646667165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5646753.post-91787108250265219302011-03-18T11:43:00.002-04:002011-03-18T11:49:05.473-04:00“which means 'precious one' in Swahili”

Australians charmed by mother-daughter gorilla bonding by Kriba and Kipenzi at Taronga Zoo.

Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16127439381646667165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5646753.post-24196175580934006612011-03-18T07:34:00.001-04:002011-03-18T07:38:02.506-04:00“Monkeys do need food to survive”

Plan to cull vervet monkeys around South Africa's Hartbeespoort Dam meets opposition.

Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16127439381646667165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5646753.post-28344314918298040402011-03-17T15:38:00.002-04:002011-03-17T15:41:45.212-04:00Goodbye, Misha

One-year-old gorilla dies at Columbus Zoo and Aquarium.

Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16127439381646667165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5646753.post-5959421473212121172011-03-13T20:20:00.002-04:002011-03-13T20:27:35.308-04:00“get the monkeys down”

Manitowoc County's Two Rivers Opera House, remembered as a place where performing monkeys would get loose and need caught.

Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16127439381646667165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5646753.post-19281515637690494442011-03-13T06:06:00.002-04:002011-03-13T06:12:25.660-04:00“I have the right not to have a goat in the seat next to me”

Americans with Disabilities Act rules change, service monkeys hardest hit.

Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16127439381646667165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5646753.post-79211568078280602302011-03-12T08:11:00.002-05:002011-03-12T08:17:37.879-05:00“a Canadian goose versus a monkey”

Spider monkeys fail in escape attempt from Utah's Hogle Zoo.

Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16127439381646667165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5646753.post-91385496006657256772011-03-11T13:45:00.002-05:002011-03-11T13:51:26.292-05:00“They’ve both been pretty chill”

Dallas Zoo welcomes two new adolescent male lowland gorillas: B’wenzi and Juba.

Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16127439381646667165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5646753.post-16823916386006144462011-03-11T11:06:00.002-05:002011-03-11T11:21:29.764-05:00“Sumatran Orangutan Conservation Programme”

Expert from Jersey's Durrell Wildlife Trust plans visit to Indonesia's Batu Mbelin orangutan quarantine centre to see twins born to two blind orangutans.

Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16127439381646667165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5646753.post-62167494263724448532011-03-11T09:21:00.002-05:002011-03-11T09:25:43.322-05:00Insert your own disparaging comment

UK student to be caged, live like a gorilla, for 24 hours at Paignton Zoo.

Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16127439381646667165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5646753.post-37703599870234083272011-03-11T08:41:00.002-05:002011-03-11T08:45:25.883-05:00“Carefully and with a sedative”

Gorillas given thorough physicals by jumpy vets at Brookfield Zoo.

Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16127439381646667165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5646753.post-19876792315870774412011-03-11T07:06:00.002-05:002011-03-11T07:11:55.939-05:00“they're not monkeys”

Ever-hungry alligators at St. Augustine Alligator Farm and Zoological Park watch new lemur neighbors with interest.

Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16127439381646667165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5646753.post-86809908154347831752011-03-11T05:33:00.002-05:002011-03-11T05:40:17.061-05:00“It was sore but it was worth it”

Outgoing 18-year-old UK girl bounces more than six miles on a "space hopper" balloon while thinking of gorillas.

Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16127439381646667165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5646753.post-80535190439298081852011-03-10T21:41:00.005-05:002011-03-10T21:48:21.306-05:00Compare & contrast

Titi monkey vs. Amherst County Courthouse monkey

Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16127439381646667165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5646753.post-27985185587560298892011-03-09T12:19:00.001-05:002011-03-09T12:24:49.526-05:00“worth an estimated $100”

Abilene TX theft of "fuzzy, brown gorilla suit" unrelated to Jane Goodall's imminent arrival, authorities say.

Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16127439381646667165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5646753.post-88177445428522465562011-03-08T18:12:00.002-05:002011-03-08T18:16:44.528-05:00“primates can suffer from post-traumatic stress syndrome and Stockholm syndrome”

Story Book Farm Primate Sanctuary, Canada's only primate sanctuary.

Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16127439381646667165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5646753.post-53081597392552777182011-03-08T12:46:00.002-05:002011-03-08T12:50:12.853-05:00“police have identified three juvenile suspects”

A small monkey was found dead at Frank Buck Zoo in Texas, following a break-in by vandals this weekend.

Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16127439381646667165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5646753.post-36468844292476368452011-03-07T20:23:00.002-05:002011-03-07T20:28:16.982-05:00“scientists seek to treat all species humanely”

Without research chimpanzees, new cures don't get discovered.

Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16127439381646667165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5646753.post-28976313276500593682011-03-07T19:13:00.003-05:002011-03-07T19:30:58.829-05:00“other monkeys in the troop have started to serve as baby sitters”

Illinois's Niabi Zoo celebrates February birth of a black and white Colobus monkey, Hank.

Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16127439381646667165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5646753.post-75504249022153382202011-03-01T20:30:00.003-05:002011-03-01T20:32:18.251-05:00“adventure is in her blood”

National Geographic pauses from non-stop AGW for the swimsuit issue.

Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16127439381646667165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5646753.post-18058616195617353962011-02-28T12:43:00.002-05:002011-02-28T12:45:50.653-05:00Costly kebabs

Chimpanzee meat, at over 20 pounds a kilogram, seized from market stalls in Britain.

Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16127439381646667165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5646753.post-57026556209440029442011-02-28T12:37:00.002-05:002011-02-28T12:41:55.418-05:00"cardiac tamponade"

Necropsy findings released in January death of Hank the chimpanzee at Tennessee's Chattanooga Zoo.

Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16127439381646667165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5646753.post-31188408928193661522011-02-28T12:31:00.001-05:002011-02-28T12:35:58.940-05:00Goodbye, Maki

16-year-old chimpanzee at North Carolina Zoo, mother of the first chimp born there, dies after anesthesia as part of treatment for an abscessed tooth.

Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16127439381646667165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5646753.post-54261368136208240102011-02-27T12:07:00.003-05:002011-02-27T12:10:56.106-05:00“Kambiri”

Four-month-old gorilla at the Boston's Franklin Park Zoo is named. Kambiri means “allow me to join the family.”

Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16127439381646667165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5646753.post-22143417116211923502011-02-23T21:09:00.003-05:002011-02-23T21:14:50.034-05:00“inflammation of the brain, fluid in the lungs and fibrosis in the heart”

Necropsy fails to find definitive reason for death, but gorilla Kimba of South Carolina's Riverbanks Zoo and Garden stubbornly remains dead.

Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16127439381646667165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5646753.post-70781138892406035622011-02-21T19:02:00.003-05:002011-02-21T19:06:28.141-05:00“he had died on the spot”

Man in India's Galta Gate dies after third floor rooftop fall while fighting marauding monkeys.

Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16127439381646667165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5646753.post-85670050668526564782011-02-21T06:26:00.002-05:002011-02-21T06:30:51.945-05:00“Actually, he's Brisbane's stolen monkey”

The wrong stolen tamarin monkey turned in to Australia's Simbio Wildlife Park.

Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16127439381646667165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5646753.post-90737427322745418042011-02-13T08:21:00.002-05:002011-02-13T08:26:49.643-05:00“more than two to three days to catch a monkey”

Municipal Corporation of Delhi wises up: if you want more monkey catchers, pay more for monkey catchers!

Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16127439381646667165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5646753.post-23761622147825826922011-02-13T08:04:00.002-05:002011-02-13T08:08:53.098-05:00“proportionately largest brain of all primates”

Squirrel monkeys born at Virginia Zoo.

Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16127439381646667165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5646753.post-29831825553977425572011-01-30T07:58:00.004-05:002011-01-30T08:07:18.339-05:00“seven in the past month”

Complaint filed, federal inspection planned, in death of Hank, 42-year-old chimpanzee at Chattanooga Zoo.

Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16127439381646667165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5646753.post-68111040895032769052011-01-26T14:40:00.002-05:002011-01-26T14:50:05.075-05:00Goodbye, Lulu

46-year-old gorilla, first gorilla to give birth at New York's Central Park Zoo, dies Monday at Columbus Zoo and Aquarium after suffering seizures.

Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16127439381646667165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5646753.post-64605203212897997522011-01-24T20:43:00.001-05:002011-01-24T20:45:43.059-05:00“the reincarnation of their ancestors”

Wild chimpanzees solve Gordian Knot.

Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16127439381646667165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5646753.post-91442414577021548982011-01-24T20:39:00.002-05:002011-01-24T21:06:30.081-05:00“It was named Kipenzi”

Australia gains a gorilla!

Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16127439381646667165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5646753.post-87502062616033742482011-01-24T20:32:00.002-05:002011-01-24T20:37:28.256-05:00Goodbye, Hank

42-year-old chimpanzee at Chattanooga Zoo dies in his sleep. Zoo plans to have life celebration, probably with religion-neutral dances.

Edhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16127439381646667165noreply@blogger.com0