“FABULOUS PRIZES!!”

Gorilla-naming contest at Colorado's Cheyenne Mountain Zoo.

“a 400 pound Silverback”

Checkups, both health and dental, for J.J. the gorilla, today at Florida's MetroZoo.

“owning a monkey does not violate the exotic animal laws in the county.”

Pet monkey in Bell County, TX, euthanized after report it attacked “someone”.

“Tondalayo's Kitty”

Tondalayo, grieving 45-year-old Sumatran orangutan at Florida's Zoo World, now has a pet cat.

“caused annoyance to the public, injury/danger to human life and hindered traffic”

Monkeys of India's Himachal Pradesh to be thrown back on their own resources and initiative as public monkey-feeding is banned.

“the swamp monkeys get toolboxes and tool-shaped piñatas”

Oregon Zoo schedules week-long “spring break”-themed festival of animal enrichment programs.

“Wednesday’s ad cost more than $10,000”

Dung flung in Scottsdale, AZ's City Council election anonymous “monkey business” ads.

He's a very clean old man

Sir Paul McCartney takes time from busy schedule to agitate against you enjoying the fruits of drugs undergoing FDA-mandated testing. When I think of Mick Jagger, strutting across the stage in that walker, denied new medications because they can't be tested, I feel rage.

“a male Coquerel's sifaka”

Delayed news, it seems: lemur birth surprises staff on Valentine's Day at Sacramento Zoo.

“And don't forget to give your concoction a catchy name”

Whatever logic suggests, Peace in Our Time Peach unlikely to displace perennial crowd-favorite Chunky Monkey™ in Ben & Jerry's "Do Us a Flavor Contest".

Lepilemur randrianasoli, L. aeeclis and L. sahamalazensis

Now there are 11: On the heels of last year's announcement of Lepilemur seali  and L. mitsinjonensis,  three more species of lemur have been identified.

“Enrichment takes time and money”

Australian has plans for microchipping and automating zoo animals.

“a property that once housed horses, iguanas, snakes, llamas, chickens and a monkey”

Squalid conditions at Cherokee Ridge Animal Rescue Facility, animal shelter gone bad, are recounted in New York court.

“the bouncing, rabid kangaroos and screaming baboons that are their children”

Nature's most fearsome creatures, shoppers and their spawn.

We have standards, unlike some people!

When choosing a mate, wild capuchin monkeys generally skip over their daughters, says study funded by Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

“The whole judicial system takes a long time”

One of the men wanted in the November shooting of primatologist Shelly Williams has surrendered to Smyrna, GA., police.

“the painting will start as soon as weather permits.”

With fund-raising nearing the brink of fruition, Weippe, ID., will again paint a gorilla on their water-tower. No artist's conception accompanies the story, which makes me sad.

“a hot-tempered animal”

Romeo, a 13-year-old chimpanzee at Pakistan's Karachi Zoological Garden, didn't want to go back his cage. All's well now.

“It is as I’ve dreamed of him to be”

California's Sequoia Park Zoo takes receipt of 1,000-pound bronze of 60-year-old Bill the chimpanzee.

“the good Samaritan who had been feeding them will stop putting food out”

Free-loading monkeys of Kuching, Malaysia will now be responsible for their own upkeep, like the rest of us.