Wednesday, February 07, 2007

“It screeched bloody murder”

Unlike smoke alarms, a helper monkey requires no battery.

“He never even visited the island...”

"Monkeyfishing" fraudster confesses all. New York Times, not so much.

Tuesday, February 06, 2007

“things couldn’t be going better”

Asha, gorilla at Colorado's Cheyenne Mountain Zoo welcomes a birth.

Monday, February 05, 2007

“Setsubun”

Gorillas at Tokyo zoo pelted with roast soya beans for good luck.

Sunday, February 04, 2007

Such a strange flower

Jane Goodall, florist.

“promises to save people from simian terror”

Partisan monkeys to influence Indian state assembly elections.

Saturday, February 03, 2007

“died in 1958 of intestinal parasites”

The animals at St. Louis Zoo are old and getting older. (Which is good, when they stop getting older, then you have cause to worry.)

Friday, February 02, 2007

A dud vasectomy!

40-year-old chimpanzee gives birth in Chinp Haven shocker, despite apparent absence of fertile males.

The are Some Things Man was Not Meant to Know

Experiments on monkeys at the Medical University of Ohio violated protocols, says Stop Animal Exploitation Now, ad-hoc AR loons.

The Fix is In

Bears to win the Superbowl, says Oregon prognosticator, Inji the orangutan.

Wednesday, January 31, 2007

“through May 13”

Goodall-themed 'Discovering Chimpanzees' exhibit opens at Miami's Metrozoo.

“they can be extremely vicious”

Fresno's Chaffee Zoo looks to furf out its aging Chimpanzee squad, including serial dung-flinger Bosco.

“at the original Nathan's Famous hot dog stand”

Boston general manager Theo Epstein, who owns a gorilla costume and, it seems, a mustard-stained tuxedo, married in secret ceremony

Tuesday, January 30, 2007

Monday, January 29, 2007

Sunday, January 28, 2007

“it does not sound promising”

Australian monkey-impersonator plans one-man show.

Saturday, January 27, 2007

Tuesday, January 23, 2007

“stolen Monday from a chiropractic office”

Carving of Bigfoot swiped in Washington as crimewave continues,

“part of a European breeding programme”

Watching a young gibbon grow in Sussex .

Sunday, January 21, 2007

“space monkey”

“no one wins when youths choke themselves”, declares newspaper.

Monday, January 15, 2007

“keeping a primate as a pet is not a good idea”

Rabies shots for Louisiana boy in lemur attack.

Saturday, January 13, 2007

Thursday, January 11, 2007

“to feature polar bears and seals”

Wine king Brown-Forman to add Glacier Run to Louisville Zoo's Gorilla Forest.

Wednesday, January 10, 2007

Sunday, January 07, 2007

Exercise your right!

Don't blame me: I voted for Cheese Eating Surrender Monkey Press.

Brachiation's best!

Science fiction author calls for humanity to abandon upright locomotion, return to the trees, for the sake of the Earth.

“it’s best we don’t monkey around with it at this point”

Officials say some things Man not meant to know as sinkhole grows in Springfield, MO.

Wednesday, January 03, 2007

Tuesday, January 02, 2007

Strictly voluntary, really

Australian plan: over the next month, 24 people will be locked up, six at a time, in the old orangutan enclosure at the Adelaide Zoo.

“it’s been urinated on, it’s garbage”

Your no-longer-needed fur coat can warm a rehabilatated animal and assuage your guilty New York conscience almost as much as using it to strangle a conservative judge would.

Stop me if you've heard this one

A thief wearing a gorilla costume walks into a Minneapolis store...

Monday, January 01, 2007

“enjoying a new life”

Spongebob the squirrel monkey celebrates the New Year.

Thursday, December 28, 2006

But it does repeat on ya!

Cloned meat and milk to be declared safe by FDA.

“The monkeys fought back”

Texas pets, Opie and another monkey, tortured during home burglary.

Wednesday, December 27, 2006

“Wah, wow, hoo!”

Beware the plaintive song of the gibbon.

Saturday, December 23, 2006

“That would include zookeepers”

Canada says “no thanks” to blood donations from professional monkey-handlers

Friday, December 22, 2006

“given a fertility drug”

MSM's failure to respect gorilla's privacy.

“Roots and Shoots youth leaders”

Worldwide Youth Network Raises $40,000 to Help Orphan Chimpanzees in Africa&rdquo: we've been doing a first-class job orphaning chimpanzees without your help, thanks just the same!

Wednesday, December 20, 2006

“monkey cloning is important”

If South Korea suffers a monkey shortage, science will be ready to help.

Friday, December 15, 2006

Thursday, December 14, 2006

“bombs away”

The habits of various animals disposing of their dung is considered.

Wednesday, December 13, 2006

“prosimians, not monkeys”

December 14 is officially Monkey Day!

Tuesday, December 12, 2006

and what about George Allen?

PETA demands ban on ownership of “macaca” monkeys in Wayne County, North Carolina, because of herpes B danger.

Monday, December 11, 2006

Sunday, December 10, 2006

“a happy day”

Amazing Animal Productions Inc chimpanzees to retire, to acclaim of animal rights pressure group and tame primatologists, who continue to pay undergraduates with Primate Chow and fish-sticks.

Saturday, December 09, 2006

“more than a million years younger than earlier estimates”

“Little Foot” Australopithecine not human ancestor, scientist says.

Even the weather report is biased extreme left!

I wonder why this editorial isn't signed. Fear of having to stand behind it someday?

Unperson

Michael Crichton's latest novel Next and its orangutan narrator declared politically unsound due to previous novel, State of Fear's, failure to endorse global warming.

Update: Senators Rockefeller and Snowe to sponsor heresy trials.

Wednesday, December 06, 2006

“one of Africa’s last great untouched wildernesses”

Christmas vacation anong the chimpanzees in the National Park in Gabon.

Tuesday, December 05, 2006

“elephants, hyenas and baboons have wreaked havoc”

Life worsens for Kenya villagers.

“government debacles”

Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA), rooting for truffles, Joe Lieberman (I-CT), not as harmless as he looks: politicos to watch in the coming year.

Friday, December 01, 2006

“But he was a fun drunk”

You'll have to aim low if you mean to spit back at Danny DeVito.

Update: George Clooney trots the chunder trail with Danny in impression of F. Scott and Zelda.

“whether you are descended from a Rhesus monkey, or just a plain Chimp”

Australia's man on the street.

Tuesday, November 28, 2006

Saturday, November 25, 2006

“the difference between the naked ape and the hairy ape”

Australia's Adelaide Zoo to add human enclosure to other great apes.

Wednesday, November 22, 2006

Monday, November 20, 2006

“delayed due to lack of travel documents.”

Thailand's Chiang Mai Night Safari Zoo agrees to return borrowed orangutans to their home in Indonesia. Eventually.

Saturday, November 18, 2006

Friday, November 17, 2006

“a special program to raise funds”

North Carolina Zoo Society $45 “adoption” package includes plush chimpanzee, chimpanzee photograph, gift card and adoption certificate and funds toys, treats and training for chimpanzees and keepers.

“permission to euthanize animals deemed too sick or too injured to be rehabilitated”

Seven ex-OSU chimpanzees have been removed from Primarily Primates in San Antonio, TX for a court-ordered move to Chimp Haven in Shreveport, LA.

Wednesday, November 15, 2006

“their brains were slightly larger than ours”

Meet your Neanderthal relatives.

“last month, she pulled the alarm for the first time”

Panbanisha, Great Ape Trust of Iowa's bonobo, activates fire alarm again. Promised work on covering alarms to prevent repetition still pending.

Tuesday, November 14, 2006

Monday, November 13, 2006

“The monkey of excessive profits is off the back of owners”

Another opportunity for readers to enjoy the benefits of buying their local newspaper.

“this one that really came out great”

Phoenix (Arizona) zoo orangutan and baby.

“a remarkable recovery”

Disabled ape Allie the orangutan making great strides at Great Ape Trust of Iowa.

Saturday, November 11, 2006

“They could survive or even thrive in this type environment”

Stories of monkeys running free in the Louisiana woods are mocked.

Friday, November 10, 2006

“aggressive or playful”

Ben, 21-year-old male gorilla at Florida 's Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens, drowns in a moat during gorilla horseplay.

“jumped ship somewhere near the balmy climes”

China Shipping Lines monkey still missing.

Monday, November 06, 2006

“an attempt to identify the vicious animal”

Apparent monkey deemed a “small brown blur” threat to Sydney docking of Chinese container ship.

“estimated that in all 1,000 orangutans had died”

Dry season a bad time for Indonesia's orangutans.

Friday, November 03, 2006

Mad? You call me mad??

Idaho State University professor of anatomy, Jeffrey Meldrum, scorned for his unconventional views on Bigfoot, as seen on Discovery Channel.

Thursday, November 02, 2006

“All of The Zoo’s chimps are accounted for”

Santa Rosa, FL, Sheriff’s Office on the lookout for mystery chimpanzee.

“and a black cape”

Ashtabula, OH, convenience store robbed by man wearing gorilla mask. (Or by gorilla wearing gorilla mask!)

“They will not step in our house and take that monkey”

Jake the monkey's new owner undaunted
by the first
of what will be many, many monkey bites.