“research in one of the least-known areas on the planet”

New Zealand's University of Auckland appoints first primatologist. Because sometimes you just need one.

“the population is growing”

Philadelphia Zoo debuts its new golden lion tamarin.

“the animal leapt onto the boat”

Monkey's escape attempt during veterinary visit at Texas's Gladys Porter Zoo is foiled.

“Raman knew shooting in reverse would've killed him”

Indian bandit's pet monkey remembered as a keen shot.

“did not do everything possible to protect the animals and its staff”

US Department of Agriculture to penalize Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo $3000 for irregularities resulting in three poisoned langurs and one attacked intern gorilla-keeper.

“now plans further research on monkeys”

Something new to fret about: untrasound may be harmful to little Zygote.

Gorilla-botherers

“said there was no cause for alarm”

Authorities on Cyprus seek reported window-rattler which might be a monkey. Reuters story lacks photoshopped illustration.

“I feel guilt and anger”

Jane Goodall cheers up Martha's Vineyard.

“a bright-eyed baby gorilla”

Gorilla born and doing fine at Canada's Calgary Zoo.

“people didn't want their pets confiscated”

Being around primates can be bad for your health, warns the Captive Wild Animal Protection Coalition.

“a major role in the evolution of monkeys, apes and humans”

Science lessons of Snakes on a Plane.

“l have made some shocking findings”

De Brazza monkeys mistaken for Skyes monkeys when initially spotted in northern Kenya forest.

“I look back with great nostalgia”

Jane Goodall spreads it pretty thick.

RIP

Four-time Iditarod champion, motorcyclist, writer, Susan Butcher dead after bone marrow transplant.

“These lights are inexpensive”

Canada's Light Up the World Foundation seeks funds to save gorilla habitat by replacing lighting via firewood with $150-per-unit LED “eco-lamps”.

“claiming the stunt was just a prank”

Gorilla-suited yout in Lakewood, Washington, gets a warning after attempting shopping center tot-snatch of 5-year-old.

An ape, but a lesser ape!

Johannesburg Zoo happy about birth of siamang gibbon.

“the zoo's first-ever testosterone replacement”

Abu, former alpha-male baboon at New Zealand's Wellington Zoo is deposed. The zoo hopes to return him to the throne.

“comes with a card detailing the saga”

Virginia's Mill Mountain Zoo tries to squeeze the last bit of good from erstwhile escape-monkey Oops.

As do I.

“and a macaque monkey’s urine contacted her eye”

When working in the lab, follow established procedures and wear safety gear.

“part of a weapons investigation”

Michigan's Binder Park Zoo provides temporary quarters for monkeys, exotic birds, cobras, diamondback rattlesnake and others, seized from two Battle Creek homes.

“to make sure it's happening right”

Close attention is paid to Muke, expectant gorilla at Ohio's Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden.

Out-monkeyed!

Hmmm, I must improve my news searches. Monkeys In The News is full of stories I haven't seen yet!

“animals with smaller brains lack behavioural flexibility”

Predators prefer prey species with smaller brains, scientists say. Except for zombies, presumably.

“patrolling monkey-prone stations”

Monkey menace on the rails in New Delhi.

“a bad case of the shakes”

“Animal advocacy” group Last Chance for Animals calls for the head of Los Angeles Zoo Director John Lewis following death of rattlesnake-bitten chimpanzee Judeo.

“scientists found him in a traveling circus in Japan”

Necropsy result on P-Suke, a bonobo which died at Great Ape Trust of Iowa, much as expected: cardiac fibrosis.

“monkey in pajamas”

Well, there's a blast from the past, I once saw Phil Dirt and the Dozers perform in Columbus, OH. A long time ago.

“you are small and resemble an orange-gutan”

“the fall-out from elections”

Countdown for gorilla extinction, unless we do as the UN tells us.

“The facility will eventually accommodate 200 chimpanzees”

Louisiana's Chimp Haven to release 19 more chimpanzees onto the grounds.

“Sport hunting entails falcons or hounds”

Saudi baboon-hunting areas to be expanded.

“got angry when some children teased the animal”

Jason the chimpanzee escapes from his enclosure at India's Mysore Zoo, panic ensues. Coaxed back in, no injury to humans or non-humans.

“the $20 million project has to be financed”

The National Chimpanzee Observatory: it won't come cheap.

“to protect builders from baboons”

Baboons at UK's Knowsley Safari Park take it personally when builders demolish their old home to build new one.

Betty's back!

Only remaining escaped squirrel monkey returns to enclosure voluntarily at London Zoo, looking for dindins. She had some nice, juicy, mealworms.

“often treated as curiosities”

Cotton-top or tuft-eared marmoset (New World monkeys) rescued by SPCA in Chennai, India.

“Betty is still pottering about in the park”

Five squirrel monkeys escape London Zoo, four recaptured in Regent's Park.

“If he steals food they should let him run off with it”

Baboons continue to roam South African neighborhoods.

“With the baboons, you never know”

Tough times at Haifa Zoo.

“never use great apes in its advertisements”

I didn't know they even still made Keds.

“a speedy repatriation”

Vietnam returns two orangutans to Indonesia.

“a show about monkeys escaping from the zoo”

Ohio's Madcap Puppets: children's theatre torn from the headlines.

“more destructive than logging or bushmeat hunting”

Kill! Kill! Kill for the love of conservation!

“He's a @#*$&#% monkey!”

More civil discourse from the MSM, this time about Curious George.

“the chimp was no where to be found”

Chimpanzee with a club reported in Thousand Oaks, CA. Theories abound.

Goodbye, Les

Les, 44-year-old Sumatran orangutan at Oklahoma City Zoo, dead of heart and kidney failure.

“a fully grown sheep torn to pieces”

Years of appeasing South Africa's endangered baboons exacts a heavy price on innocent farmers, livestock.

“proposed that people are a domesticated form of ape”

Bizarre stock from unsettling Soviet animal-breeding experiments continues to be bred for science!

“spent most of their lives in a research lab”

Indian Institute of Science accused of releasing lab monkeys into the wild.

“Mr. Farinato says officials should consider euthanasia”

Local SPCAs at wit's end finding homes for ever-increasing number of rescued exotic pets. Internet blamed.

It's a raid!

Drugs, endangered animals, &c. seized from home of North Carolina zoo owner.

“because it's really scary”

Don't mistake Gorilla Glue™ for dogfood, veterinarian says. Or for gorilla food, I say.

“especially when you rewarded them with some raisins”

When your ancestors climbed down from the trees, they had to run before they could walk, scientists say.

“I buy 575 to 600 tons of food a year”

Keeping busy feeding the animals at Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium.

“causes huge distress and behavioural problems”

You don't want a pet monkey, says UK's The Monkey Sanctuary.

“the longest interbirth interval of any mammal”

Orangutans may pay the price of all such evolutionary left-behinds.

“a farmer had a problem with some baboons”

A Saudi farmer mourns his goats, poisoned by his own hand.

“Owners chose not to report the incident to police”

Thieves in Russia steal circus monkey's motorcycle.

“mural of a Zen monkey in a meditative position”

MonkeyWatch favorites Val Prieto and Steve H. Graham are profiled.

“he will get black stripes”

Florida's Naples Zoo welcomes a newborn colobus monkey, destined for Canada.

“they cannot eat their tiffins without fear”

Spring Dale School in Indira Nagar, India, troubled by menacing monkeys.

“found safe and well playing with children in a London park”

“SpongeBob,” Bolivian squirrel monkey napped from UK's Chessington World of Adventures, recovered.

“the organization no longer has a lawyer”

Lawsuits fly in bigfoot land.

“He was like my son”

Chico The Monkey, organ-grinding star attraction of Chicago's Animal Kingdom, dead of apparent stroke.

“named a baby gorilla Keza (cute one)”

Bill Gates & family bestow a name on a Rwandan gorilla.

“Davis underwent more than a dozen surgeries”

Court battle looms over Moe, the chimpanzee formerly owned by St. James and LaDonna Davis (and not one of the chimps that savaged Mr. Davis).

“at the fountains at Crocker Park”

Owner of Ohio gorilla suit sought by police for talking-to, return of gorilla suit.

“gorilla or chimpanzee parts being sold”

Illegal bushmeat finds a market in European, American, cities.

Another monkey-napping in Britain!

Bolivian squirrel monkey stolen from UK's Monkey and Bird Garden at Chessington World of Adventures in Surrey.

“she pulled out binoculars and spotted the monkey”

A monkey runs loose in Wisconsin, owner stays mum.

Update: Police believe it may be someone's pet, to the disappointment of local Bigfoot Jr. seekers.

Update again: Monkey may be victim of golf-cart goniffs.

“viruses that could conceivably jump from apes to humans”

Spank the monkey if you must, punch the monkey if you will, but don't eat the monkey!

“he escaped from a transfer cage”

Baboon's bid for freedom from San Antonio, TX, research facility quickly foiled.

“They only found the suit, not the person in it”

Man (or gorilla?) in gorilla suit eludes Westlake, OH, police

But making them listen? Not so easy!

“Expert explains dangers to chimpanzee population”

“known for its haunting whale-like call”

Madagascar celebrates the birth of an Indri, the world's largest living lemur.

“at the home of a 70-year-old neighbor”

Incompetence from ALF thugs.

“releasing them in the forest”

Better they learn the truth now: sold for medical research.

Carl Stalling's come-uppance may come yet

Via This Blog Is Full Of Crap, at last Smellovision approaches.

“primate-carried diseases like the Ebola virus”

Senator Jeffords to outlaw transport of primates across state lines for sale as pets. Until it's to his advantage requiring same.

“They are mine”

Johnny Weissmuller Jnr aspires to Tarzan's loincloth.

“Did you know that satellite imagery reveals that Barbara Boxer is actually a lemur”

Gutfeld nails list of questions to the door.

“A True Positive Ape!”

At POSITIVE APE INDEX, your favorite <driver from hated locale> portrayed.

“research was conducted in rhesus monkeys”

Cocaine bad for rhesus monkeys, Wake Forest University scientists say.

“There’s nothing like an animal story”

Oops, Virginia's no-longer-missing monkey seen as a feel-good story in a time of scary headlines.

“We are so grateful”

PETCO raises 1.7 million in donations, Oregon Primate Rescue one of the recipients.

Home again, home again

Virginia's missing monkey Oops now back in zoo, safe and sound.

“$1 General Admission tickets”

The hunt for Virginia's missing monkey Oops widens to the baseball diamond.

“We go through four cases of bananas for the week”

Preparing food for the animals at a zoo commisary.

“fresh, berry red, and a potentially good sign”

Expert searchers join the quest for Oops the monkey, suspected monkey scat found.

“It's definitely not great timing”

Virginia's Mill Mountain Zoo, from where Oops the missing monkey escaped, due for AZA accreditation beginning at the end of this month.

“our Top 10 reasons”

Oops, Virginia's runaway monkey, becoming folk hero.

“officers used pepper spray to calm him down”

I'm guessing narcotics were involved, but I'm just guessing.

“Peaches”

Virginia resident remembers when the rhesus monkey her aunt gave to Mill Mountain Zoo escaped, 50 years ago.

“they have a very elaborate repertoire of sexual behavior”

Living On Earth™ considers the randy bonobo, nature's dirty hippy.

“chimps and monkeys are actually named as plaintiffs”

Primarily Primates sanctuary is criticized, sued.

Goodbye, P-Suke

Bonobo at at the Great Ape Trust of Iowa dies under anesthesia prior to planned hernia surgery.

“We are the tree-huggers”

Tree-swapping at Mesker Park Zoo in Indianapolis.

“No specific reason for the postponement was given”

Hernia surgery for P-Suke, bonobo at the Great Ape Trust of Iowa, postponed.
Updated: Died during anesthesia.