Monday, February 28, 2011

Costly kebabs

Chimpanzee meat, at over 20 pounds a kilogram, seized from market stalls in Britain.

"cardiac tamponade"

Necropsy findings released in January death of Hank the chimpanzee at Tennessee's Chattanooga Zoo.

Goodbye, Maki

16-year-old chimpanzee at North Carolina Zoo, mother of the first chimp born there, dies after anesthesia as part of treatment for an abscessed tooth.

Sunday, February 27, 2011

“Kambiri”

Four-month-old gorilla at the Boston's Franklin Park Zoo is named. Kambiri means “allow me to join the family.”

Wednesday, February 23, 2011

“inflammation of the brain, fluid in the lungs and fibrosis in the heart”

Necropsy fails to find definitive reason for death, but gorilla Kimba of South Carolina's Riverbanks Zoo and Garden stubbornly remains dead.

Monday, February 21, 2011

“he had died on the spot”

Man in India's Galta Gate dies after third floor rooftop fall while fighting marauding monkeys.

“Actually, he's Brisbane's stolen monkey”

The wrong stolen tamarin monkey turned in to Australia's Simbio Wildlife Park.

Sunday, February 13, 2011