"Anglo-Swedish fighter aircraft"

Indian monkey menace hijack attempt.

"scampered off before it could be caught"

Lost monkey stays lost in Singapore.

"orangutan babies are impossibly cute"

Orangutan rehab at Indonesia's Tanjung Puting National Park.

"extremely unique"

Great Ape Trust of Iowa's new liaison talks with the animals not-animals-in-the-conventional-sense.

"It’s romantic!"

Valentine’s Day presentation at Colorado's Cheyenne Mountain Zoo: What the Zookeeper Saw.

"one of his main interests is to create work with which people can interact"

Bill, 58-year-old chimpanzee at California's Sequoia Park Zoo to be sculpted. (The article doesn't mention Bill's prowess as a feces flinger or if that will play any part in public interaction with the statue.)

Job opening in Colorado!

President of Colorado's Cheyenne Mountain Zoo heads for sunnier climes.

"You can't pretend it's not an issue, but it is safe"

Rwanda: now with less genocide!

"a fungal disease found in the soil"

Arizona's Wildlife World Zoo adds new animals. Continued absence of great apes is mentioned.

Yesterday's News Today!

Facts and factlike information about 1974's Planet Of The Apes TV Show.

"what we try not to do is make judgments"

Missing link sought at Berlin International Film Festival.

"Bill the chimpanzee is probably the most famous of our residents"

California's Sequoia Park Zoo to get $2.25 million upgrade, new redwood entry pavilion.

"alcohol, tobacco and corporate profits"

Jody Jodi Rell's approval ratings to tank.

Update: I shall call you I can't believe it's not Democrat.

"five bags of monkey-head fungus"

New Zealand smuggler not just glad to see you.

"Cavaleri was allowed to keep his pet monkey"

Large reptiles seized from apartment in Sydney, Australia.

"an evolutionary cul-de-sac"

Neanderthal man cold, dizzy, says BBC's Horizon.

"only a mishap"

Via Monkeys In The News, it looks like Indian monkey wars begin to turn ugly. Officials in denial.

"Local Chinese natives delay their New Year celebration"

Local Chinese natives?

Say goodbye to the year of the monkey

It's the year of the rooster.

Goodbye, Koby

Koby, 29-year-old chimpanzee at North Carolina Zoo, dies under anesthesia during annual physical.

"saying just what makes up a species of bacteria"

Biologists befuddled by baffling bacteria.

"each child in the school to sell 10 T-shirts"

The Nature Conservancy puts Texas elementary school students to work selling sweatshop product.

MORE ZIPPERS, MULE!

"People love primates"

USA Today article touts apes in commercials.

"sort of fluffy looking"

Wildlife Conservation Society to auction naming rights for newly-discovered monkey in genus callicebus.

"Orangutans are amorous apes"

Great Ape Trust of Iowa to add loaner orangutan.

"a search for the missing link between man and ape"

Moody, atmospheric Euro talkfests to crush Hollywood action blockbusters any day now, says Berlin Film Festival director.

"Total attendance in 2004 was 591,687"

Kansas's Downing Gorilla Forest a major tourist draw, says Sedgwick County Zoo.

"the Chimpanzee Collaboratory"

And you thought no one would be offended by this year's Super Bowl ads!

"utterly shameful"

Shrill UK anti-vivisectionists find it easier to get traction in the press than in court.

Update: Earplugs recommended for researchers.

Hold me...

I'm scared.

"He's very interested in human males"

Oscar, San Francisco Zoo's new stud gorilla, so far shows little interest in the ladies, says San Francisco Chronicle.

"we are taking precautionary measures"

Menacing Malaysian monkey problem to be solved.

"These crows never make mistakes"

Brain nomenclature consortium first to welcome our avian overlords.

"It is not by coincidence"

Congo rainforest conference names Wangari Maathai (backgrounder) to be roving ambassador for the Congo Basin.

"monkeys were seen leaping through the trees"

UK explorers summit Edinburgh, Kilimanjaro.

"her grandson wouldn't let her grab the New England Patriot's shirt"

Inji, orangutan at Oregon's Portland Zoo, picks Eagles.

"She ate so much formula, she threw up"

Two arrests in Maryland monkey theft. But owners may be in violation of county exotic animal regulations.

"Each of the 900 or so bags weighs about 50 pounds"

It's one thing to say "if I had a nickel for every idiot who cut me off in traffic..." It's another thing entirely to make good on it.

"for the last three years"

Monkey menace in Malaysia

"Much remains unknown about leprosy"

Book review of Don't Fence Me In: Leprosy In Modern Times waits to the end to reveal that the sooty mangabey brings to three the number of vulnerable species.

Our stomachs will roast in hell any day now

American power on the wane, say tone-deaf "experts" at UC Berkeley gabfest. An 800-pound gorilla is invoked, and found wanting versus overwhelming international frowny-faces.

"to avoid excessive contact with humans"

Gorilla touring in Uganda remains strong despite the season.

"we are not going to keep the chimps"

Indiana's Potawatomi Zoo seeks to trade chimpanzees for giraffes.

"reunited with her adoring owners"

Maryland stolen monkey returned to home, charges expected.

"Alright, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my closeup"

A gorilla in Congo's Kahuzi-Biega National Park.

And if that doesn't work, stern looks and strongly-worded memos!

Central African leaders call for bold measures to save Congo Basin forests.

"we often refer to him as The Silverback"

Superannuated publishing exec becomes ape-fancying college professor, earns pro-forma kudo from Queen of the Chimps.

"the monkeys may spread disease"

Delhi looks for new dumping ground as Madhya Pradesh says no more monkeys.

Goodbye, Scottie

Scotty, a 36-year-old silverback gorilla, dead at Colorado's Cheyenne Mountain Zoo.

"all three monkeys were microchipped"

Stolen UK cotton-top tamarins recovered, reunited.

"had long sought to obtain a northern flying squirrel"

Canadian naturalist stymies Boris and Natasha.

"she doesn't tell many people about her exotic pets"

Baby capuchin stolen in Maryland.

"the zoo houses an amazing array of life"

NY's Buffalo Zoo looks to make up budget shortfall.

"It is water and mud and disgusting"

Another important assignment for Christiane Amanpour.

"two of the monkeys have been recovered"

Arrests made in UK theft of cotton-top tamarins.

"drivers found it difficult to ply on them"

Road improvements called for at Ghana's Boabeng-Fiema monkey sanctuary.

"Bottles of Hope"

Goodall junior minion confuses cancer patients.

"added her voice to 705 international scientists"

Queen of the Chimps Jane Goodall senses trend, joins.

OK, everybody come back now

Connecticut, come home!

"ON, more ON and completely OUT"

Two more gorillas to be placed on view at Kansas's Sedgwick County Zoo Downing Gorilla Forest.

"I'm not dead"

News at Dr. Weevil

"22 exhausted and very funky climbers"

Harvard Business School field-trip to Mt. Kilimanjaro.

Fun facts, etc.

The Toque Monkey is not native to Canada.

"the alternate reality that the democrats inhabit"

Feces Flinging Monkey finds The New Republic bemoaning "The Death of Liberalism in Iraq." 'Cause elections are bad, mmm'kay?

"they were absolutely petrified"

Macaques at Australia's Rockhampton city park unharmed as storm drops 100-foot tree on their enclosure.

"supplements his diet each day with Geritol and Herbalife"

Rudy, world's oldest captive lowland gorilla, turns 49, at Pennsylvania's Erie Zoo.

"swinging from 20-foot lengths of old fire hose"

Spider monkeys at Hawaii's Panaewa Rainforest Zoo settling into new privately-funded geodesic dome enclosure.

"The butchers say it is a cow"

Kenyans tricked into buying bushmeat, says Born Free Foundation.

"deeply emotional beings with high-pitched voices"

Archeologist takes a new look at the physiology of Neanderthals.

"the monkeys had not caused much damage"

Government offices in Chandigarh, India overrun by monkeys.

"Miss Baker, who shot into space in 1959"

Alabama Animal Hall of Fame to induct a monkey and an eagle.

"ring-tail lemurs are very curious animals"

Come the April thaw, baby ring-tail lemur will be on view at Idaho Falls Tautphaus Park Zoo.

"a research center that studies the intelligence of apes"

Great Ape Trust of Iowa hot on the trail of a replacement orangutan.

"monkey turning into a voter"

Spain seeks to remedy voter apathy with a monkey poster.

"a monkey bit off two of her fingers"

Arkansas chimpanzee feeder, missing two fingers, sues Wild Wilderness Drive-Through Safari.

"to view female hindquarters"

Duke University Medical Center researchers sell monkey-porn to monkeys.

“history is calling us”

13 monkeys to remember:

Daniel Akaka (D-HI)
Evan Bayh (D-IN)
Barbara Boxer (D-CA)
Robert C. Byrd (D-WV)
Mark Dayton (D-MN)
Dick Durbin (D-IL)
Tom Harkin (D-IA)
James Jeffords (I-VT)
Edward M. Kennedy (D-MA)
John Kerry (D-MA)
Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ)
Carl Levin (D-MI)
Jack Reed (D-RI)

He played Cousin Itt on "The Addams Family"

Actor, stunt double Felix Silla retires.

"Jane Goodall in a monkey suit"

A theatre review, perhaps of interest to those in Phoenix, AZ. But it does dismiss the play's author as "Jane Goodall in a monkey suit," and that image improves my morning.

"Sometimes, it squeaks"

Virginia elderly said amused by Florence Wilson and her monkey puppet, Leroy.

"received proper treatment shortly afterward"

Baby chimpanzee treated for pneumonia at children's hospital in China.

"the pure joy of owning a gigantic snake"

Washington considers banning exotic wild animals.

"may even be increasing in numbers"

Grauer's gorillas in Congo apparently thriving despite poachers, guerilla warfare.

Almost as good as a real present

"Adopt" a gorilla for Valentine's Day from the North Carolina Zoo society.

"Our members are not comfortable"

Pan Africa Sanctuaries Alliance upset that they aren't in charge of Kenyan wildlife.

"They would have made the Great Depression worse"

New Zealand's Dear Leader makes the most of "King Kong" photo op.

"We all know Nina is doing the talking rather than the monkey"

Nina Conti hopes to revive ventriloquism with fresh new gimmick: she works blue.

"whilst being responsible, respectful and considerate of local communities"

Now you needn't get lost while eco-touring Vietnam.

"more than 10,000 foreign and local visitors visited the sanctuary last year"

Ghanaians in Boabeng and Fiema protect Monkey Sanctuary from bushfire.

"The 25-year-old bachelor may also be getting a lady friend"

New home for Rusti the orangutan fully funded after anonymous $100k donation.

"an isolated, unsophisticated type of prehistoric ape-like man"

Prehistoric Britons may have engaged in species warfare, says British Archaeology.

"both are doing well"

Twin cotton-top tamarins on display at UK's Linton Zoo.

"Nobody was injured in the incident"

Monkey-clad criminal unsuccessful in robbery attempt in Japan.

"I am so back"

Super Intelligent Mystery Monkeys has returned to blogging.

"unqualified statistics of animal deaths"

Australia's Western Plains Zoo claims animal deaths taken out of context in recent newspaper exposé.

"Modern people prefer not to think about cannibalism"

Pravda declares "Prehistoric cannibalism triggered human evolution".

"a look into some weird things"

Passing reference is made to the great monkey hoax of 1953.

"It is not known where the monkeys came from"

Monkey home-invasion in South Africa.

"known to make gifts anonymously"

$55,000 for the Chimpanzee house at Zoo Nebraska among Johnny Carson's charitable contributions.

"chimpanzees and humans share various social behaviors"

Chimpanzee named fourth most popular animal at Oregon Zoo.