"but it's pretty sad, too"

Baltimore's American Dime Museum to display paintings by Betsy the Chimp.

"a baby chimp and baby orangutan showed signs of vitamin D deficiency"

Apes at St. Louis Zoo to see the sun.

"those lovely long legs are lethal"

Bored? Visit the zoo, advises Florida's Marco Island Sun Times.

Get it while you can!

Bushmeat trade declared unsustainable by Bushmeat Crisis Task Force.

"years of verbal and written complaints"

America's biggest cardboard box manufacturers racist smurfs, EEOC charges.

"This (ban) truly has only nondomesticated animals"

Kentucky's Logan County plans to ban dangerous exotic animals, electioneering within 300 feet of the polls.

"ever since he was a child he has been interested in exploring"

UK man off to Sumatra to find local Yeti.

"Whenever I go to Bali, I never miss going to a Kechak"

Japanese tourists ruining Bali, says Philippine tourist.

"The gravity of the violations is great"

USDA cites UC San Francisco for animal abuse.

"based on a mixture of rhesus monkey rotaviruses"

Monkeys assist in developing vaccine for rotavirus, "most common cause of severe, dehydrating diarrhoea and vomiting in children worldwide."

MonkeyWatch consumer alert!

World Wildlife Fund to raise funds by providing wildlife photos for new-fangled postage stamps. $16.99 for 20 37¢ stamps = 0.8495¢ per stamp.

"it doesn't seem worth the effort anymore"

Willie's Wildlife Zoo, a bit lackadaisical.

"carnapping of a motorcycle"

Johnny Ape, motorcycle carnapper.

"sacked for selling monkeys"

Fired UK zookeeper spent 23 days hiding out at home with two wallabies and 14 tortoises.

Update: "Stealing from them would be like stealing from myself"

"will focus on studying communication with the use of computers"

Great Ape Trust of Iowa buying orangutan-sized pajamas, reserving domain names.

"covering the hinterland of Cameroon's beach tourism resorts"

New paradigm for the Campo Ma'an National Park in southern coastal Cameroon.

"have him wake up in a gorilla cage"

US tourist calls for caging Buckingham Batman.

Antipodean dilemma

Relationship between Yowies and Bunyips remains unclear.

"born at Barcelona Zoo last month"

Spain's new baby gorilla twins make their first public appearance.

Spoons supports 2nd amendment, Sun Times doesn't

The Chicago Sun Times Smokes Monkey Cock, says Spoons.

"Now is the time to look around and think about the monkeys in the zoo"

Resentment about standing out in a crowd.

"He’s definitely a Wisconsin monkey"

Jasper, the monkey Green Bay didn't want, lands in Manitowoc, which doesn't seem to care much one way or the other.

"devastated at the theft"

Yet another monkey-napping at UK's Shaldon Wildlife Trust, which ought to consider locks on the doors.

"using monkeys instead of mice"

Alzheimer's vaccine tested on monkeys at Yerkes National Primate Research Center, in Georgia.

"The jail is dark. It smells rank, like concentrated monkey"

Punjab state addresses monkey menace with monkey jail. "Activists" "angered".

"people can record their own pant-hoot calls"

Maryland Science Center, big on edutainment.

Things that man was not meant to know

UK's Animal Procedures Committee demands stronger government rules agsinst distasteful science.

"I like the monkeys best"

How the Guardian sees the Baghdad Zoo.

"don't worry about that bat in the attic"

Pollinators promoted at United States Botanic Garden.

"bring used items for donation from the chimp wish list"

Chimp psychologist Psychologist who studies chimps to address Marion Women's Business Council, in Ohio.

"the Wizard of Oz Festival"

Monkeys to fly in Indiana.

purple alert

Des Moines, lock up your children.

"I know there’s a monkey involved"

Pepsi pits man against monkey as memories of 50's game show scandal fades.

"And some West African grivets - a kind of monkey - have green scrotums"

Why are there no mammals with green fur?

"a very popular ape"

UK gynaecologist performs c-section on orangutan, mom & baby doing well.

"And they're eaten, possibly"

Saving orangutans in Borneo.

"the enchanted nature of Madagascar"

NikonNet to add lemurs. Lots of them.

"this incredible oxygen-providing resource"

The UN, Joseph Kabila, Jacques Chirac. Think fund-raiser proceeds will be diverted?

"Wildlife groups and Indonesian officials are adamant"

DNA tests for ex-Safari World orangutans back on.

Afternoon of a Nude Red-capped Mangabey Descending a Staircase

Exhibit of wildlife photographs, drawings by noted UK wildlife photographer, drawer.

"basically I could tell there had been a monkey there"

Green Bay monkey owner cited.

DAMING PRUF!

Memos forged!

"The Ramayana is a 2,000 year-old epic story"

Wanna bet that this Minnesota ketjak chorus doesn't know it's a 20th Century tourist draw?

Gravity's next

Serbian education minister halts evolution.

Update: never mind.

"at least three species of lice depend on the threatened red colobus monkey"

Various parasites, etc., said to be "co-endangered" species.

"I would not have made the wrong choices"

Lobster-eating surrender monkey runs in circles, screams & shouts.

"if she could have any animal in the world it would be a monkey"

Connecticut girl eschews birthday presents for donations for local no-kill animal shelter.

"call for tougher rules"

WWF speaks out for wildlife.

"it's truly sensational"

New Zatoichi this Friday!

"has not discouraged visitors"

Ghana's Kumasi Zoological Gardens concentrating on core competencies.

"For the past decade the labs have been a target for animal rights groups and government officials"

Headline-seeking Alamogordo, AZ District Attorney Scot Key "reportedly" sues Boston company because two (of hundreds) of chimpanzees died.

Charles River Laboratories.

"As a woman, I am outraged"

Old splinter-britches sends pamphlet to "her extensive list of personal and professional contacts" asking support for PETA's campaign of protest against medical experiments at New York’s Columbia University.

meta, meta, meta

Yay, Blogger's able to publish again!

"Warren the Ape and Count Blah"

Greg the Bunny special, maybe series, slated for IFC.

"There's no vaccine against it. It's just one of those things"

Three monkeys dead of Yersiniosis at New Zealand's Auckland Zoo. Dr. Potter notwithstanding, specific vaccine, Yersiniavax ("presently available only in New Zealand") described here. (Maybe it's not certified for use on monkeys.)

"Carrots, it seems, aren't good for rabbits"

However, says Prather McNeal, of Ross University School of Veterinary Medicine, monkeys still like bananas.

"believed to be the first orangutans to live in Iowa"

Great Ape Trust of Iowa to welcome first great apes at the end of the month.

All-singing, all-dancing

Coming soon, Fahrenheit 9/11: the musical.

Where does a 6,000 pound hippo sleep?

Not in great-grandfather's parkland!

“Doctor Dolittle’s Delusion”

Animals can't talk, says Yale prof.

"the public doesn't believe them"

Sasquatch may be afoot, says North Dakota columnist.

"you can't build a tree to hurricane code"

Florida zoos lose few animals to Frances, but suffer significant damage.

"black-faced langurs versus red-faced monkeys"

Government of Andhra Pradesh hires more langurs to address monkey menace.

"It's a slow and painful process"

US conservation group advertises to dissuade Thais from consuming wildlife, set zoo agenda.

"Now imagine a hundred monkeys"

Via Ghost of a Flea, Inside the Monkeysphere.

"there are more commonalities between us and our closest living relatives"

Chimpanzees know when they're being imitated, say University of Queensland researchers.

"cultivation of the Polynesian noni fruit"

Australian woman moves to Borneo to save orangutans by providing alternatives to logging.

"I've had people ask if I can get them gorillas"

Foolish people want overly exotic pets.

"There will be no skunks here"

Alabama teen is qualified wild animal rehabber. So, stop thinking about this unrelated television character.

"giving birth to baby boy Kumi right in front of their eyes"

A glut of gorillas at London's Chessington World of Adventures.

"We're the only place that does this"

Boston's Helping Hands "monkey college," where capuchins are trained to help people with severe disabilities.

you got to start young if you're going to stick it out

Queen of the Chimps Jane Goodall to indoctrinate elementary school kids with new book, "Rickie & Henri: A True Story.

Your kid will keep trying to return the dog to the wild.

"At least 11,600 tons of illegal bush meat"

Ill-considered items on the menu in the UK.

"Chimpanzees make an approximation of it"

Kissing good for your health, say Swiss researchers.

"What they say on television is a lie"

al-Reuters finds (or invents) Beslan locals to blame Putin for hundreds dead. The single reference to the terrorist murderers responsible for this merely calls them rebels.

"other species call out through the darkness"

Take a romantic moonlight stroll at San Diego Wild Animal Park.

"They're our little babies"

Retired couple in Florida keeps busy by running Primate Paradise, a sanctuary for monkeys and whatever else wanders into the yard.

International Foundation for Victims of Terror Acts

Via Instapundit, the Command Post points to this fund to help children who were injured, or lost parents, in the terrorist attack on a school in Beslan.

"Look out for 11 monkey species, caimans, and giant otters"

If you try to visit the Galapagos Islands, there are no direct flights.

"fashioning out policy framework"

Ghana to begin talking about planning to write 5-year plan to refurbish Kumasi zoological gardens.

Things to know about Ghana.

"Reminiscent of the monkey man hallucination"

Indian villagers troubled by evil spirit.

"and an Allen's swamp monkey"

Baby Wolf's guenon ready for public viewing at Cleveland Metroparks Zoo.

"the wretched bosses of commerce are drooling"

Clueless humor, or a plank in the Democrat platform: you decide.

"while hundreds of people paraded by"

Gorilla born at Chicago's Brookfield Zoo.

"Two bears, two llamas and a lemur have been named in the same fashion"

Baby leopard at the Zoo in Forest Park gets a name: Katunga

"You cannot easily trust what that group says"

Japan Today asks "What should be done with pesky wild animals like monkeys, boars, bears, etc?"

Quickly Jeeves, a pair of tweezers and the Anusol!

"I preferred chimpanzees"

The zookeeper's lot is a happy one, says the Straits Times.

"the skeleton of famed Australopithecine, Lucy, has a small braincase but modern ankles"

"Hominids started walking on two legs six million years ago," says French Museum of Natural History. Later they invented baguettes.

"eight-hundred-pound gorilla"

Author says drug companies are bad. Stop taking medicine, I guess.

"the whole locality is suffering from the terror of the monkeys"

Residents of Lucknow, India, meet monkey menace with fireworks.

"the animals were frightening children at nurseries"

Officials in Japan's Wakayama Prefecture get strict with left over monkeys.

False advertising!

Seattle Times shocker: there are no apes in Ape Cave!

"honey bears, cockatoos and orangutans"

Indonesian officials seize illegally-held endangered animals.

"carcasses were found dumped and with their throats slashed"

Indian villagers, tired of monkey menace, risk Hanuman's wrath.

"We have 120% more monkeys at Tautphaus Park Zoo"

They're gaining on us.

"she felt stupid"

What if they gave a protest and only one moonbat came?

She'd get herself arrested, as it happens.

"the monkeys are being disseminated secretly"

Indian government takes steps to address monkey menace, pissing and moaning from the usual sources commences.

"civic authorities pull at their hair in frustration"

Tajikistan tells India send more monkeys!

"monkeys are entering into my house at the slightest opportunity"

Continuing monkey menace in Orissa, India.