“average in size and extremely healthy”

Sukari, western lowland gorilla, gives birth at Georgia's Zoo Atlanta.

“they have no problem living off the land”

Historic Macaque escapes: “it can be months before they're recovered”.

“by making monkey gestures”

Oops, Virginia's monkey-on-the-run, still on the run, and was spotted yesterday.

“opens its gates to visitors one day each month”

Louisiana's Chimp Haven solicits enrichment gifts for the chimpanzees.

“has shown no signs of discomfort”

P-Suke, bonobo at the Great Ape Trust of Iowa, scheduled for Friday surgery to repair inguinal hernia.

“like a needle in the haystack”

Virginia monkey still missing from zoo.

“animals chew on it or sit on it”

Icing down the critters during the summer heat at Sunset Zoological Park in Kansas. And in the UK's heatwave.

“humans may have to close their windows”

South Africa's problems with monkeys and baboons becoming more frequent. Humans are blamed.

“It happened on June 27th”

Gorilla born at Spain's Madrid Zoo. This'd be Spain's first gorilla born with full human rights, so his mother Gorka is now due an additional monthly stipend.

“An amorous ape and his two brothers”

“Big, muscular bag of hormones” said to be behind Canadian ape-swapping.

“He’ll be going first class”

Monkey-shuffling at Canadian zoos.

Update: Ape-shuffling just around the corner.

“critically endangered”

Two pied tamarins born at Belfast Zoo.

“do not attempt to feed, pet or make any other contact”

Virginia's Mill Mountain Zoo to reopen Tuesday, as missing monkey “Oops” seems in no hurry to return.

Goodbye, Mopie

Mopie, 34-year-old gorilla at the National Zoo, died of apparent heart failure Monday, the second in a week.

“avalanches of searing hot gas and debris”

Farmers on the slopes of Mt. Merapi in the Philippines, undismayed by volcanic eruptions, now menaced by hundreds of deranged monkeys.

“she would bite and scratch and fight back”

Monkey still missing from Virginia zoo.

“he truly cares for the environment”

In school today we learned about manbearpig!

“as if old age was finally taming his strength”

Birthday celebration for 42-year-old Zakayo, chimpanzee at Uganda's Wildlife Education Centre in Entebbe.

“urges anyone who sees the monkey to call 911”

Japanese macaque on the loose from Virginia's Mill Mountain Zoo.

Update: “they can hear her in the forest surrounding the four-acre zoo”

Monday AM Update: The hunt resumes. “Jobe says hunger pangs might bring her out of hiding Monday.”

Goodbye, Kuja

Kuja, 23-year-old western lowland gorilla at the National Zoo, dies during surgery to implant a cardiac device.

Update: Memphis mourns their native son.

“most tourists that view them flout the regulations”

Spotty gorilla-tourists said to risk infecting Bwindi gorillas with airborne disease.

Timing is everything

Hard on the heels of the SWIFT loose-lipping, Newspaper Association of America argues for S. 2831, the Free Flow of Information Act of 2006, a federal “shield” law, vital to maintaining the flow of information to the public. Friendly or otherwise.

“18 monkeys stolen from zoos rescued”

Monkey-stealing ring nabbed with the goods in UK.

“the science of ape intelligence”

Executive shake-up at Great Ape Trust of Iowa.

“very prominent facial markings”

Colorado's Denver Zoo announces June 10 birth of red-capped mangabey.

“visitors flock to the area”

Banno the monkey a mean drunk:

The owner of the beer shop, Rajesh Singh, admits that Banno helped raise his sale figures. People visit the site just to see the monkey drinking beer. ‘‘But now, she has been hitting business as she has injured at least half-a-dozen people in the last few months,’’ he says.

Call in the lawyers!

“native to the forests of central and eastern Africa”

Indiana's Fort Wayne Children's Zoo proud to show de Brazza's monkey born this week.

“the world's smallest primates”

Tiny marmoset on the loose captured/rescued in East Palo Alto, California.

“I have returned”

The Jawa Report is back.

“definitely have a chimp’s sex swellings”

Last year's “new species of ape” now instead seen as a bunch of fat chimpanzees with mohawks.

“I hope nobody gets drunk and hits it”

When in Indiana for this weekend's United States Grand Prix, find time to see Alvin Probasco's 2,500-pound limestone gorilla.

“It's a very clever animal”

Wily baboon in South Africa's Cape Town outsmarts SPCA officials.

Update: Wilier and wilier.

“They try to French kiss you”

Arizona woman makes and adventure holiday of fostering baboons in South Africa.

What do you get for a thing like that?

Uganda Museum to open Great Apes Survival Project exhibition to sensitise the public about gorillas and chimpanzees

“location reported to farmers by e-mail on their cellphones”

Japan's Nippon Telegraph and Telephone West Corp. to begin chipping monkeys to let farmers know when their fields are being raided.

“Maybe if you say please”

That's clever, Hans!

“hearts and minds”

Sierra Leone's Awareness Times reports sighting of Bruno and his remaining gang of dissident chimpanzees.

“a court-ordered inspection of the refuge”

While your foolish European seeks to make irrational law (thanks to Harvey of Bad Example), here in the US the courts will do it for us!

“an outcast from Taoist heavan”

Hong Kong readies for the Monkey God festival on October 7th.

“at the 17th graduation of the Open University of Tanzania”

Jane Goodall is awarded.

“facing severe threats”

Seattle Times shows a picture of an orangutan and her baby.

“and have women e-mail you nude photos”

Feature and interview in Chicago Tribune for Last Angry Young Man of Monkey Chow Diaries.

Spishers!

Primatologists aim to ape bird watchers.

“Monkeys, livestock and reptiles will not be allowed...”

and neither will people without pets, at Palm Beach, Florida's animal-people storm shelter

Microcebus mittermeier, M. jollyae, and M. simmonsi

International Journal of Primatology confirms: more lemur species, and all endangered. I think splitters are run amok here and will continue to split until each individual is its own extinct species.

“open the floodgates”

Jane Goodall, PETA loons, and a crew of assorted do-gooders fear that if Yerkes National Primate Research Center is permitted to use endangered mangabeys (which they've raised from birth) in AIDS research, they'll want to do it again to cure smallpox and dengue and ebola and goodness knows what else.

“Karl Rove’s dingo ate my baby”

New screedblog!

“Sheriff's Deputies are on the hunt”

Monkey reported running loose in Forest Park, Ohio.

Update: No monkey spotted, hoax suspected, copycats feared.

“teaches students how to humanely kill pigeons and rats”

It's all part of the circle of life, for Exotic Animal Trainers.

“She also has severe Spindelosis”

A feature on Chicago's Brookfield Zoo caring for disabled animals, including hip replacement surgery for arthritic gorilla Beta.

“the vandals of the animal world”

Baboons at UK's Knowsley Safari Park accused of swiping English flags from visitors' cars.

“would travel around town selling fishing rods and maggots”

Remembering a real-life advertising chimpanzee in Bolton, Lancs.

“we can not preserve them at the expense of education”

Won't someone think of the children, and kill some more monkeys!

“the primate auditory cortex contains more fields than have actually been functionally confirmed or described”

Sissy Willis sends along a pointer to this article on findings about auditory fields in monkey brains.

Talk about your culture of corruption!

Odd goings-on in illegal monkey sales in Vietnam.

“wait for hours to see or touch Oraon's 13-inch tail”

Villager in West Bengal worshipped as incarnation of monkey god Hanuman. Doctors say he's not.

Looks depressing.

If you see a largely black background here, blame blogger. I note that Mansfield Fox, using the same basic template, looks the same. It got better.

“the lemur is one of the friendliest animals at the zoo”

Lemur escape plot foiled at Detroit Zoo.

“some people are going to hate it”

Sahelanthropus tchadensis,  the earliest known hominid fossil, no such thing at all, just some ape going on all fours, say University of Michigan anthropologists.

“Unripe fruit carries insect larvae”

Monkeys consider past weather conditions when deciding where to find what to eat, researchers declare.

“we have collected faecal samples from orang-utan individuals”

Your orangutan likes to stay close to home, researchers say.

“has every tooth in his head”

What Cheeta the chimpanzee gets up to, when he's at home and when he's out and about.

“a spate of thefts of small monkeys in the UK this year”

Five monkeys missing from UK's Drusillas Zoo Park in apparent monkeynapping.

“injecting millions of human brain cells into the heads of monkeys”

Coming to you soon from a sunnier clime: the orangu-man, dancing monkeyboy, and girl-rilla.

“absurd moral reductionism”

Bioethicist Wesley J. Smith opposes Spanish legislation that would grant human-type rights to apes, legislation

whose ultimate goal is the implementation of a broad animal liberation agenda that would eventually elevate all mammals to moral equality with humans.

“including rambutans, durians and mangosteens”

46th birthday for Ah Meng, orangutan at Singapore zoo. The article claims she's “the oldest orangutan living in captivity” but only days ago Nonja, orangutan at Florida's Miami Metrozoo, turned 54.

“like highland bandits”

Pakistani family in Saudi Arabia has picnic spoiled by baboons.

it's always something with these people

Palm oil thirst seen as orangutan's bane.

“I thought I was going to die”

Never never turn your back on a chimpanzee.

“he did not rule out having it killed”

He's not a bad chimpanzee, your honor. He's just misunderstood.

thousands cheer

Whittle posts!

“Twelve baby gorillas were given names”

“Big Ben” the big name among those at this year's gorilla naming ceremony in Rwanda.

“we are not sure whether Ugandans sell or eat them”

Uganda-Congo border a hot zone for the ape trade.

“Gus took over all parental roles for Tucker”

Siamang father at Indiana's Fort Wayne Children's Zoo is a good dad.

“an unusual season”

Baby gorilla will be among the honorees Saturday at “Baby Shower” at Boston's Franklin Park Zoo.

“a working formula for world peace”

Jabbering away in some foreign lingo, watching a monkey drink Fanta.

“oldest captive orangutan in the world”

Nonja, Sumatran orangutan at Florida's Miami Metrozoo, turns 54.

“they should not be used as pets”

In Malawi, the green monkey's best friend.

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“this risk is remote and should be ignored”

Australia taken to task for not importing cheap foreign bananas during their own serious banana shortage.

“Visitors can join him as free cake and ice-cream will be provided”

Hank, chimpanzee at Tennessee's Chattanooga Zoo, turns 38 on Saturday.

“Actions Speak Louder”

Apparent bad faith from publisher Hachette Filipacchi in use of photos stolen from Michael Yon.

“holed up in a walnut tree”

Ape-fancier Daryl Hannah thwarted in land-grab attempt.

“sort of a speciation machine”

Madagascar's lemurs: an embarrassment of riches.

This way we don't offend anybody

Scientists at State Museum of the Rhine in Bonn re-envision Neanderthal as Swiss.

“beggars or landless labourers”

Rwanda's Batwa hunter-gatherers said to be in near-slavery after land is seized for gorilla habitat.

“cabaret and street theatre”

Monkeys at UK's Bristol Zoological Gardens throw gala housewarming to new enclosure. Refreshments will be served.

“They’re giving it to the monkey”

New York's last organ grinder and his monkey.

“we are appealing to the charity of these fruit exporters ”

Peta loons try to put the touch on India's fruit exporters. (I note that India hasn't exported macaques since 1978. Why doesn't Peta extort some mangoes from their Chinese friends?)

“People didn't understand me”

Monkeys approve of Hanuman festival in India's Uttar Pradesh.

“He is very American”

He's not a bad monkey, your honor. He's just misunderstood.

“the incident required no further action”

Formula One race-car driver David Coulthard apologizes for referring to rival Juan Pablo Montoya as a chimpanzee in a zoo.

“Better call an ape lawyer”

QandO blog exhibits US speciesism in telling the tale of human rights for non-human primates in Spain.

“only a "ridiculous or distorted society" could propose such a law”

Reservations are expressed about plans by Spain's political elite to extend human rights to great apes.

“the two monkeys are very old”

On the aging zoo population of Thiruvananthapuram, India.

“he appeared to be in shock”

More on yesterday's deadly chimpanzee ruckus in Florida. I note:

Herman really liked people better than he liked chimps

Did Herman discover something that the other chimps feared he'd talk about? Did they ensure his silence?

“I believe in getting students wet and dirty”

Your tax dollars at work.

Mysterious Canadian rituals?

Trees in Ontario, Canada, park found festooned with cardboard monkeys.

Goodbye, Herman

Herman, 42-year-old alpha male chimpanzee at Florida's Lowry Park Zoo, dead in fight with (formerly?) low-ranking chimpanzee Bamboo.

Update: More.

“I fed a llama”

Missouri's Exotic Animal Paradise, drive-thru petting zoo to be replaced by housing development.

“But they are not conscious; they cannot be free”

An argument against “rights” for great apes on philosophical grounds.