“more than 160 people were left homeless”

Four dead, evictions due for remaining residents of 16 Malaysian homes after landslide in habitat of silver-tailed monkeys at Taman Zooview.

“so where does that leave us ethically?”

Celebrities hit back at calls to lift UK's ban on testing on great apes.

“rickshaws, head massages, yoga and monkeys”

“monkeys eating chapatis”...monkeys eating chapatis...if now is the start of the long-feared global monkey rebellion, right when I'm busy, I'll be vexed.

“the orangutans, the lemurs and the residents of Monkey Village”

Arizona's Phoenix Zoo to add evening entertainments.

“train the local staff in chemical immobilisation of wild animals”

India's Jammu and Kashmir Wildlife Protection Department to take monkey menace lessons in West Bengal.

“equivalent moral status”

Sissy Willis sends a pointer to this New Scientist page reminding us that sometimes you don't get advances in medicine without experiments on monkeys.

“If Dian were alive, this would never happen”

Yerkes National Primate Research Center wants to perform medical experiments on some of the mangabeys they raised in their primate colony. Author of Dian Fossey biography channels her late subject, who opposes the research posthumously (and subjunctively).

“My wife failed to grab it but noticed it had a tail”

Via Monkeys In The News, sleeping man in China depantsed by monkey.

“the Reticulated Massai species of giraffe did not exist”

Legal woes loom for Pakistan's Lahore Zoo after they determine they don't really want a pair of giraffes after all. Capuchin and Colobus monkeys they'll take, though.

“This is real life... right here”

Former chimpanzee-tracker to try his hand at railroad conducting.

Gorilla at rest

Congo gorilla featured in BBC News readers' photos feature.

“I don't want to come across as a nutcase here”

Experts declare Clarence, New York, Bigfoot a hoax.

They Saved Hitler's Globe

Via Cronaca, safe, save for one bullet hole, in German Historical Museum. No monkeys, though.

“It is the source of ideas”

Thanks to Sissy Willis for sending along a pointer to this AmbivaBlog post pointing to Richard Lawrence Cohen on the “monkey mind”.

“Gorilla Composting”

I don't know who said it first, but “Compost Happens.” In Canada, on the other hand...

All depends on how you look at it!

Global warming, global cooling. Ape drought, ape glut.

“We get our good looks from the handsome, hairy knuckle-walkers”

Cleveland Museum of Natural History goes all-out for chimpanzees.

“Rabbits are a staple at the zoo”

Dinner's not all Monkey Chow™(*) at Minnesota's Lake Superior Zoo.

“brazen colobus monkeys”

Zanzibar ravaged by marauding monkeys:

One bullet costs about one cent but can kill only one monkey and we can’t afford to buy thousands of bullets

“a long-tailed South American monkey”

Would-be speller tripped up by sapajou.