Goodbye, Washoe

Washoe. famous signing chimpanzee, dead of natural causes at 42 years of age at Central Washington University.

Influenza implicated.

Update: Cruel, but fair.

Wazoo

The first time I saw Frank Zappa perform was 9/23/1972 at the Felt Forum in NYC. Soon. the next day, recorded at the Music Hall in Boston, will be released.

Update 10/06: In my hands today!

“a family history of feces flinging”

An inflatable gorilla's experience to the ER is documented at Emergiblog.

“baboon crime”

Baboons enforce their demands for rights, reparations at the People's Cube. (H/T to Sissy Willis)

“killers are being kept like monkeys and live a good life”

The benefits of experienced civilization, and executing murderers, are considered.

“you eventually fall apart and die from a lack of collagen”

Like our ancient enemy the monkey, we need vitamins our bodies can't synthesize.

Goodbye, Mamu

Mamu, 37-year-old ring-tailed lemur, dead of undetermined causes at Colorado's Pueblo Zoo.

“Initially the parents were worried for their son's safety”

Disaster is foreshadowed: monkey babysitter.

“Machiavellian intelligence”

Germans: Monkeys are sneaky plotting bastards. People, too.

“MYSTERIOUS”

Instapundit links to this story of the search for the skunk ape.

“just a few thousand dollars”

Conservationists warn of imminent peril for primates. Regrettably, conservationists say their funds are all spent, so saving the primates is on you. Rotten luck.

“and roasted them on the spit”

Looking back to a simpler time, in Spain, when running over monkeys was commonplace.

“oddly unafraid”

Adventure holiday in Rwanda, with gorillas.

“most professional monkey catchers are illiterate”

More of the same medicine prescribed as New Delhi monkey menace continues.

Yapping from the left

Chomsky or chimpsky?

“a week early than expected”

Chimpanzee born at New Zealand's Wellington Zoo

“big, big trouble”

Left in the cold by Nobel Peace Prize lobbying, is this the year Jane Goodall releases her chimpanzee armies to kill us all?

“They're at the bottom”

As much as you wanted to know, at least, about lemurs, in Moreau, NY.

“plague of monkeys”

Deputy mayor of Delhi dies after monkey attack in rooftop misadventure.

More.

“Sumatran Orang-utan Conservation Program”

Temara, orangutan from Australia's Perth Zoo, deported to Sumatran jungle.

“an ad he placed seeking spanking partners”

Life for killer of Man in the Yellow Hat.

Amazing discovery

Google says Monkeywatch favorite Silfray Hraka is the top hit for paralytic drunk kennedy.

Or from singer poor to Sinatra

From Singapore to Sumatra, they're writing sternly-worded memos on saving orangutans.

“Gorilla Inc”

Chinese-built ladder stands recalled. Look out below!

“fans making monkey noises”

Cricket, motor racing suffer racism charges.

“a nursery nurse”

Monkeys puzzled by theft of tree from front garden in UK.

I do not think that word means what you think it means

BBC: Orphan lemur taken back by mother.

“a missing molar”

Toothmarks crucial to case against man in Maltese monkey-theft.

“it takes a lot of confidence”

Secrets of a man in a gorilla suit revealed.

“6,000 parts per million”

Man in the Yellow Hat suffers lead poisoning, Environmental health officials baffled.

“A means of connection”

Recipient of MonkeyWatch awe, N.Z. Bear of the indispensable Truth Laid Bear, has opened commercial media tool Kithbridge.

“Accidents will happen”

Scientists or big media, who's more likely to protect us from dangerous microbe mishandling?

Headlines in the News

I originally misread this as Useless Space Monkey Invented. Admittedly, misreading is commoner, yet less amusing, since my stroke.

"No throwing grapes"

Grape stompers at Reno, NV's, Great Italian Festival entertained by Hobo the Monkey.

Still awaiting the withering away of the state, I think

Max Planck Institute of Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany applies some dodgy economic theory to chimpanzee behavior.

“Thirteen animals have been stolen”

Maltese cross as Animal Park at Razzett tal-Hbiberija is burgled.

“the Freedom of Information Act”

The contagion-filled sky is falling! It's George Bush's fault, apparently.

“$15,000”

Killing a monkey is expensive.

Monkey meridians

North Carolina Zoo rejects scientific medicine for inmates.