Goodbye, Nonja

Nonja, 55-year-old Sumatran orangutan, believed to have been the world's oldest, dead at Miami FL's Metro Zoo.

“Ancient pandas battled with giant apes for food resources”

Ancient nature, red in tooth and claw.

Goodbye, Beau

Inquiries made in death of orangutan in Blackpool.

“sacrilegious cartoons”

Uh-oh!

“stashed a monkey in his hat”

International fashion reaches new low.

Goodbye, BiBi

BiBi, 39 year old female gorilla at Tennessee's Knoxville Zoo, dead of uncertain causes.

“grey-shanked doucs”

Rare monkeys over-run Vietnamese backcountry.

“the person whose back is turned is the one who gets robbed”

Yale researcher reads monkey's tiny little minds.

“we want our monkeys back”

Monkeys stolen from exotic animal preserve prompt protestors to don gorilla costumes.

“hollering led to more vigorous sex”

Question science asks: Why female monkeys shout during sex.

“suffering serious or fatal injuries”

Chinese manufacturer gives US hunters a push.

“Swing sets, monkey bars and slides”

Unregulated playground equipment is decried.

“He's looking great and feeding very well”

Australia's Taronga Zoo has a new baby gorilla.

“Presents for Primates”

Monkeys and apes at Tampa FL's Lowry Park Zoo get their presents.

“Those things can jump, you know”

University of Minnesota raises the curtain on the Minnesota Monkey Pit.

Scientists aren't alone, I guess

“sounds nice to bathe with a monkey.”

“unlike humans, Chimpanzees don’t experience menopause”

Scientists don't think like the rest of us.

“Mystery Beast Kills Animals in S.C.”

I'm guessing a King Kong sort of critter.

“It helps form social bonds”

Captive orangutans spotted sharing jokes, limericks.

“They're my favorite”

Gorillas boffo hit at L.A. Zoo as Angelenos, starved for entertainment, turn to writerless fun.

“peaceful, cooperative and matriarchal”

Bonobos: like the Democrat party, but more so. A prey species.

“fear had gripped the villagers”

Child-bothering monkey apprehended in India.

With video

As humans have learned, this monkey in India learns its purpose in life is as a servant to cats.

Hat tip to Zappateers

Karlheinz Stockhausen dead at 79.

“boisterous, confident and happy-go-lucky”

Mixed fruit and nut cake for Kivu the gorilla's 5th birthday.

“pregnancy would be too dangerous”

Northern Ireland puts Delilah the gorilla on birth control for her own good.

“world's oldest fertile gorilla and orangutan in captivity”

Germany's Matze and Charly, gorilla and orangutan, to test whether fifty is the new forty.

“the chimps won”

Chimpanzees rule at game-show level memory tests. Soon chimpanzees will make Alex Trebek redundant. (Thanks to Sissy Willis)

All the News that Fits....

Monkey-meat lowers the tone of the Paper of Record.

Refreshments were served

Returned “Taiping Four” gorillas fêted in Cameroon,