“conversation between a language-competent bonobo and a human”

Language skills among the bonobos.

Not that there's anything wrong with that.

As close together as lockstepping Dems are, if one stumbles, they'll all land in a pile.

            old and busted                          new hotness

“a prosocial option”

Capuchin monkeys not objectivists, say Yerkes eggheads.

“which stands for Center of the Universe”

Monday, Sept. 1, in Kansas City: first birthday party for COTU the chimpanzee. Ice cream will be served.

Extraordinary Headlines!

Cheeta the chimp battling assassination of Zia for Guardian book award

“they can put a hole in your leg pretty easily”

Minty, New Zealand's capuchin erstwhile runaway, gets new digs with a moat.

“heavily sedated by his keepers”

Zoo dentist makes a call at Paignton Zoo in Devon, UK.

“surprisingly large populations of two globally threatened primates”

Monkey researchers discover an embarrassment of riches.

“NAME REDACTED”

South African zoo director Pablo Caligiuri-Urban still missing on South American buying trip. Allegations are made.

“the presence of Mahale's father at the zoo would be a good influence“

Lowland gorilla Mahale, 10 days old, debuts at Australia's Taronga Zoo.

Goodbye, Jimmie

41-year-old chimpanzee at Kansas City Zoo, the zoo's oldest (and busiest!) chimp, died this morning.

“one test tube of the virus was equal to one monkey's worth”

Dr. Thomas H. Weller, Nobel Prize winner for work on culturing poliomyelitis, dead of natural causes at 93.

“our evolutionary comrades”

Lefties declare it's time for rights for non-human apes. (Except, presumbly, non-human ape fetuses. They're above everybody's pay grade).

“protecting the remaining gorillas”

Diddy and Innocent, bloggers(*) and gorilla rangers, in the BBC.

“Ichabod's captive-born parents had to learn how to mate”

Another aye-aye born at North Carolina's Duke Lemur Center.

“resonated throughout the night”

Neighbors of Bristol Zoo Gardens kept awake by night-time mating cries of the gibbons.

More.

“Murungi's delivery”

Chimpanzee born at Kyambura gorge in Uganda's Queen Elizabeth national park,

“wants his money back”

Attempting to return a defective bigfoot corpse.

Blame the people he plagiarized!

Loyal Democrats required to dismiss many, many Joe Biden quotes on the Presidential candidates.

“a mad monkey has struck terror in the area”

Monkey menace in rural India.

Fixed link

“just so mobile”

Monkey on the loose in wintery New Zealand!

“carrying a gun and a crowbar”

An Oklahoma City Dunkin Donuts was robbed by a man in a gorilla suit (or a gorilla in a gorilla suit!)

“I won't start World War III for you, sir”

Apropos of nothing, just a random post.

Update: False alarm. This'll be fun.

“protestors swung from the remaining branches like rabid monkeys”

Getting up with fleas in Berkeley.

“bit a visitor in the parking lot”

A white-handed gibbon gets red-toothed at Ohio's Cincinnati Zoo.

“caused a two mile tailback”

A followup on the monkey who snarled traffic in Ireland last week.

“Is that ... a monkey?”

Monkey menace comes to Florida.

“a sign of ignorance”

AP cites Pliny the Elder and mourns the vanishing yeti.

Goodbye, Jumoke

18-year-old gorilla dies at Ohio's Columbus Zoo and Aquarium from complications of an early pregnancy.

“it's not like it did anything bad”

Monkey menace on Tokyo subways!

More (illustrated).

Trick or Treat!

Tom Biscardi's bigfoot is, Fox says, a Halloween costume.

More.

“oldest-known chimpanzee living in captivity”

Zakayo the chimpanzee celebrates his 44th birthday. Cake was served.

“Frida Kahlo loved monkeys”

Monkey stolen from commie-honoring restaurateur in San Antonio, TX.

Goodbye, Claudio

Three-month-old gorilla dies in Muenster, Germany.

“Harmful Wildlife Hunting Corps”

Rural Japan arms against monkey menace!

“primitive primates”

Why the color red catches your eye.

“It just figured out how to open those windows”

Monkey fails in bid for freedom in Indiana.

Goodbye, Frank

44-year-old lowland gorilla at KY's Louisville Zoo euthanized on Thursday.

Edgier!

Banana Splits re-imagined.

Vocabulary!

Swell, I learned a new word today: nephrologist.

Goodbye, Hercules

43-year-old gorilla at the Dallas Zoo dies of cardiac arrest Wednesday afternoon after treatment for arthritis.

More: Behind the scenes: Hercules, the bitey gorilla.

“For the most part people are well-behaved”

Zoo visitors a threat to the animals.

“there should be more signs”

Birthday outing at UK's Dalton zoo spoiled by bitey lemur.

“They are trying so hard and that is so cute”

Monkeys at the zoo eating ice: What reporters cover on hot, slow, days.

Plan B

Exotic dancers animal-trackers to help in search for Moe the chimpanzee.

“catch and release 250 monkeys at a time”

Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation has insufficient cages, excess monkeys.

“non-life threatening”

911 call for chimp bite in Tumalo, OR.

“surgically inserted in their scrotums”

Leftists love Neuticles.

Must have flossed regularly!

Teeth of 55-million-year-old ancestor found.

“a narcotics charge”

Uh-oh. Somebody's getting a fatwah!

May 28

32 macaques died of overheating in Reno, NV.

“which played classical and rock”

Coco the monkey entertains at MA's Lunenburg Public Library.

In the US, we say cupcakes

February 22: Man chokes to death on "fairy cakes". August 7: Same story, same victim, same paper with original date noted.

“gardaí in Bray confirmed there was a monkey on the road”

Monkey escape snarls traffic in Ireland.

I couldn't beleive

Scientists suprised by 125,000 western lowland gorillas that they hadn't known about.

“first-ever success story of rehabilitation”

TV-loving gibbon released into the wild in India.

Goodbye, Cocoa

37-year-old alpha male chimpanzee at Rolling Hills Wildlife Adventure in Kansas dies of infection.

“extremely impressive”

Pepperidge Farm may remember, but chimpanzee remembers better.

“animal-enrichment exercise”

It's the time of year for the annual giving blocks of ice to the animals at the zoo stories.

Amelia Earhart, Judge Crater, D.B. Cooper, and Moe the chimpanzee

Search for Moe the chimpanzee called off.

Goodbye, Leila

10-year-old orangutan drowns while trying to catch food that visitor shouldn't have thrown, in Hamburg Germany.