“lemurs are the stars”

Duke University Primate Center is renamed Duke Lemur Center, prosimians to run roughshod.

Familiarity breeds murderous killing rage

Bruno, renegade leader of Sierra Leone's rampaging chimpanzees, was the first chimp rescued by the Tagucama Tacugama Chimp Sanctuary, ten years ago. He and 17 other apes with an attitude still on the loose.

Update: Now with a link, sheesh!

“the chimps were in a very irate mood”

Word on the chimpanzee rampage, from Sierra Leone's Awareness Times.

“If they do have rights, wouldn’t they also have responsibilities?”

The American Thinker asks whether killer chimpanzees in Sierra Leone should be tried.

Those wacky socialists!

Spain's PSOE party to introduce a bill giving apes the same rights as humans.

“Each day is marked with protests and demonstrations throughout the city”

Electrical problems in Kanpur, India, affect the zoo.

Oh, what a surprise

Repatriation of ex-Safari World orangutans delayed. Again.

“Definitely part of it, I believe, is the chimps”

OSU activists loudly demand something-or-other be done after death of second moved chimpanzee.

“incomprehensible”

Zoo-keeper at Sweden's Boras Zoo seriously bitten by orangutan-on-the-loose.

“nearly 70 apes living in a semi-wild environment”

Tourists attacked and injured, driver killed, by rampaging chimpanzees in Sierra Leone.

Update: The US embassy advises locking the barn door not visiting the Tacugama Chimpanzee Sanctuary.

“There isn’t much to see, really”

Kansas City Zoo plans to spend its way out of deficit, malaise. Contributions solicited.

“Now Tarzan make war”

Childhood enthusiasm for Tarzan movies is recalled. The Bush- (and Rumsfeld-) bashing seems perfunctory and jejune.

“Nothing that old is in good shape, of course”

The paleontologist's lot is not a happy one, it seems

“a 10-month old ape who can be seen with his dad”

Opening Day for Indiana's Fort Wayne Children’s Zoo

“which means "fog or swirling mist" in Swahili”

Baby gorilla at Colorado's Cheyenne Mountain Zoo named Umande.

“the best place to start”

Mr. Zeta-Jones visits UN, promises always to use his powers for evil, not for good

As an example, Mr. Douglas pointed out that, as he had a movie coming out today - The Sentinel - he would be making the rounds of talk shows. "Rather than simply talking only about movies, I can slide in talk about disarmament and nuclear weapons, which many people interested in entertainment would not normally listen to, but are forced to [hear about]."

Show 'em who's boss!

Celebrate Earth Day: for Frank J.'s sake, Nuke the Moon.

Now, how shall we best observe Lenin's birthday?

“and, once, a service monkey named Bubba”

I'm guessing they'd have been better off spending the time better learning how and why to read.

Goodbye, Bobby

Bobby, 16-year-old chimpanzee at TX's Primarily Primates, one of nine transferred from OSU, dead of uncertain causes. Necropsy results awaited.

“The suit itself has made several TV appearances”

Boston's Ace Ticket hopes to build a ticket-brokering empire on the strength of fleet-footed Theo Epstein's gorilla costume.

“she had probably been hit on the head several times”

Injured baboon in South Africa recovering after CT scan.

“ecophobia”

Unintended consequences in the junior ecopatrol movement?

“Orangutans are far less sociable than other apes”

Reuters thinks you'll want to know these things about orangutans.

“insurance issues”

The chimpanzees and other rescued exotic animals at Indiana's Black Pine Animal Park may have to move.

“did not mount any operation in the area”

Officials from Malaysian Wildlife and National Parks Department suggest reports of the capture of a baby "Bigfoot" may be a steaming pantload.

“25 months in prison”

Fine and prison sentence for seller of gorilla skull, big cat skins.

Hmmm

Could this be the origin of the glowing boars overrunning Ukraine?

“more than one-third voted for Kiki”

Shadowy foreign financier George Soros backs another loser as Kiki the gorilla elected Animal President of Boston's Franklin Park Zoo.

“gorillas do need companionship”

Lone gorilla at Pennsylvania's Erie Zoo to get a companion next month.

“because of the management’s negligence”

Trypanosomosis ravages Pakistan's Lahore Zoo.

“a thing that was sort of a sloth, or a monkey...I don't really know”

Upshur County, West Virginia, authorities well-advised to stick to goats.

They call her Nanny.

“believed to be one monkey of an unknown species”

Mystery animals found in Kansas.

“the monkeys gain entry into the canteen through the open windows”

Even the soda machines aren't safe from marauding monkeys at Small Causes Court in Dhoditalao, India.

“not on the agenda”

Illegal trade in animals thrives in Lebanon

“red-face monkeys, long-tail monkeys, ... and a mole which is believed to be a new species”

International Birdlife Programme in Vietnam keep their eyes on the ground.

“She hits the speaker buttom for me”

Florida woman grateful for her Helping Hands helper monkey.

“vitality and power course up my arm”

The Gorilla Organization attempts to use Daryl Hannah to promote Pavlovian pro-gorilla response in Virunga villagers.

“The zoo operator, he said, was still at large”

Ex-Safari World orangutans to return to Indonesia, eventually.

“fox-faced creature with a long striped tail”

Ring-tailed lemur among the baby animals featured at St. Louis Zoo.

“worried about a repeat of last year's chimpanzee attack”

California considers enforcing exotic animal laws.

“gross and obscene”

Letter-to-the-editor-type claim of monkey misbehavior at Florida's Lake County Fair.

“attacking and frightening nurses”

High-spirited Saudi princelings (probably hopped-up on mint tea) release baboon at hospital, capture the wacky shenanigans on cell-phone camera. Casualties not detailed.

“and Peeps Easter candies”

Friday was Easter Egg Hunt day for Orangutans at Florida's Lowry Park Zoo.

“her fingers were sewn back on”

11-year-old girl has hand mangled in monkey attack during visit to Cyprus animal ranch.

Comes the revolution you'll eat strawberries and cream and damned well like it!

Indoctrination booster-shot from "renowned primatologist Jane Goodall" at Boston's Franklin Park Zoo this Earth Day.

“stole the skulls from unmarked tombs”

Suitable suspects being arranged for in China's case of the 121 skulls.

Only in Canada!

Evolution conclusively proven by newspaper headline: Former Gorilla earns honour for charity work

“the primates also disturb the children”

Malaysians menaced by monkeys.

“caretakers of the infamous Voëlklip baboon gang”

Freshly-minted baboon monitors to shoo South Africa's troublesome baboons away from suburban areas with whistles and stern advice.

“an animal Abu Ghraib”

PETA loons offend everyone!

“an extensive remodeling”

Baboons at South Carolina's Riverbanks Zoo move to new, roomier, digs.

“a great degree of remorse”

World authority on baboon spiders can't poach them worth a damn!

“sawed off the tops of the skulls”

The official word on the 121 skulls in China: graves looted by ghouls to make ye olde handicrafted ashtrays for the tourist trade.

“an ideal habitation for the monkeys”

Land sought for monkey prison in Lucknow, India.

“an ideal habitation for the monkeys”

Land sought for monkey prison in Lucknow, India.

“at least one dead and more than 200 persons injured in the last month”

Monkey-menaced residents of Kendrapara, India, wait for helpful bureaucrats.

Heh

They weren't booing, they were yelling boom!

“I’m not sure how many animals are up for matzo”

Via SERIOUSMONKEY, monkeys at Central Park Zoo getting fat? Blame the Jews!

Buddhists, on the other hand...

Goodbye, Colossus

Colossus, 40-year-old gorilla at Ohio's Cincinnati Zoo, dies as heart stops during root canal.

“You can't believe everything you read”

I have no use for creationism, but I know a hatchet job when I see one.

“his weight is increasing and his temperature has stabilised”

Health improving for Sweden's sick baby gorilla.

They Saved Gorilla's Brain!

A peek inside the Primate Brain Bank in the Netherlands.

“Let's kill those monkeys”

Puerto Rican farmers livelihoods menaced by monkeys.

“It's not like the gorillas”

Tennessee's Knoxville debuts Naked Mole-Rat exhibit and yet, there it still stands: no divine fire, no earthquake, no pillar of salt. Bah!

“The lemur exhibit has been renovated”

Scovill Zoo, in Decatur, IL, opens for the year.

“the bees started stinging everybody in sight”

Kendrapara, India, paralyzed after honey-seeking monkeys disturb unfortunately-placed bee-hive.

“starred in 12 Tarzan movies”

Cheeta, world's oldest chimpanzee, turns 74.

“definitely in decline”

52-year-old Janie, the oldest (and only) chimpanzee in New Zealand's Auckland Zoo, doesn't have many options.

“not trying to make some kind of robo-shark that would attack people”

What to get the man who already owns sharks with fricking lasers on their head: brain-controlled sharks with fricking lasers on their head!

“Animal rights activists are horrified”

Endangered monkeys or AIDS-infected humans: ethicists wrangle over which shall live.

“Ring-tailed lemurs, llamas, alligators, a grivet monkey and an armadillo were among the animals killed”

Michigan's Nature's Creek Petting Zoo, now fans of the Underwriters Laboratories label, seek donations and plan May reopening.

“blue-faced golden monkeys”

Newly-discovered Himalayan species to be made extinct after Chinese-initiated war over Taiwan goes global.

“got its head stuck in an electric security fence”

Baby baboon rescued in South Africa.

Like owls to Athens

German President Horst Koehler brings a gift lemur to Madagascar.

“carnivorous dinosaur Dimetrodon, cougars and monkeys”

Online museum of fossils. Here.

“a global effort to engage children in caring about animals”

Disney Wildlife Conservation Fund funds Jane Goodall's efforts to raise a generation dependant on institutional handouts, and smug about it.

“five male chimpanzees in small cages”

Maltreatment alleged in Taipei Zoo chimpanzee scandal.

“what do chimpanzees have to do with academia?”

UN ambassador of peace and foe of medical progress Jane Goodall drills the answer into every listener at Univerity of Dayton's Stander Symposium. Chimp-like hoots are heard.

We're lying: “an attempt to stanch the spread of bird flu”

Filthy lice-ridden monkeys chock full of deadly avian flu, PETA whines.

“lift an ape-like creature to a modern human”

If the pickled kitten doesn't convince you, there's a feejee mermaid out back that will, heathen!

“Monkey-dung study offers clues about land-use, wildlife ecology”

Science isn't all  glamour.

‘the skulls are human and are of "recent origin"’

121 skulls found in China, originally thought to be of monkeys, confirmed as human by police.

“It’s important that the monkeys maintain their natural behaviour”

Squirrel monkeys at London Zoo given given cell phones in negative reinforcement exercise.

“I don't think it was shocking”

California lemurs may look for new home as Micke Grove Zoo is denied reaccreditation.

“viciously attacked”

$215,000 award to Israeli man mauled in 1998 chimpanzee attack.

Goodbye, Lisa

Lisa the gorilla dies during surgery at Johannesburg Zoo.

“it's a real bummer ”

Cheyenne Mountain Zoo's new gorilla being fostered by zoo workers and volunteers afer mom Kwisha not up to the task.

“four generations now survive at the zoo”

A photo of golden monkey mother and child at China's Jinan Zoo.

semper vigilans

Sarah at A Glass of Chianti finds video of yesterday's lemur-screeching incident. There's rather a lot of screeching. And a penguin, not screeching.

“now planning studies on monkeys”

Dallas firm readies for further trials of Alzheimer's vaccine.

“life-long mate of Max the gorilla”

Johannesburg Zoo's Lisa the gorilla faces cancer surgery.

“When Princess Anne saw him, she would have a good laugh”

Former Buckingham Palace butler's memoirs include a staffer in a gorilla suit.

“armed with blowpipes and bearing monkeys on their heads”

Colombia's last nomadic indigenous tribe, or Tasaday wannabes, in either case, the jungle's full of Marxists and they're not sticking around to join the party and be enslaved.

“all had a good laugh”

KTVT weatherwoman startled by on-air porcupine, prompts mating screech from lemur.

“chimp-use costs have jumped as much as 30%”

Forbes reports that the advertising industry has been striken by skyrocketing increases in the cost of anthropoid actors.

“Plastic teeth were found in a jaw of one of the skulls”

121 skulls found last week in China's Gansu Province originally said to be monkeys, now attributed to humans by some experts.

“I think monkeys should be left in trees”

Following MTV-sponsored chimp-kissing incident, Jessica Alba turns anti-monkey.

“how he lost the tip of his finger to an alligator”

Former Wild Kingdom host Jim Fowler entertains guests at Alabama's Montgomery Zoo.

“the little gorilla baby appears to be doing fine”

Scandinavia's first gorilla birth at Sweden's Kolmarden zoo

“Tabling the accreditation is technically not an extension”

American Zoo Association grants an accreditation reprieve to California's Chaffee Zoo.