Zookeepers baffled by spooked baboons.
BBC says that’s what’s going on in the Netherlands. The baboons were terrified, but no one knows why; The behaviour started on Monday evening, and […]
primatology
SONG: National Primate Home
SONG: “National Primate Home.” [Download] (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “Call for NIH research chimpanzees to be retired”, […]
Science Art: Chimpanzee, from Brehm’s Tierleben, 1860s.
Here’s an ape with plenty of character – plenty of, dare I think it, soul. This is not the first image from Brehm’s Tierleben (or […]
Humans: The *sociable* ape?
That’s the idea behind a study by University of Oxford and the University of Auckland researchers in PhysOrg. The scientists found that our ability to […]
Chimpanzee hunters drive endangered monkeys to the brink.
Not people hunting chimpanzees, Scientific American reports, but chimpanzees hunting monkeys: According to a study published May 9 in the American Journal of Primatology, this […]
Need to bother your monkey? Try flying squirrels!
It’s really hard to beat the Christian Science Monitor’s headline on this story…. Monkeys hate flying squirrels, report monkey-annoyance experts: “Human evolution occurred alongside primate […]
Chimp War.
Science Daily spoils the myth of the peaceful forest apes that live idyllic lives with no concept of ownership. Apparently, the brutes fight long wars […]
Monkeys pay for porn.
Nature says it’s true: Rhesus monkeys will trade items of value – in this case, juice – in return for sexy monkey booty shots: The […]
Monkey talk.
And, Wired says, we’re just about able to understand their vocabulary… and their grammar: Lemasson’s team previously described the monkeys’ use of calls with specific […]
Monkey music.
OK, not monkeys, but apes, New Scientist says, have been caught making musical instruments: The orang-utan’s music, if you can call it that, is actually […]
Laughing apes.
The AP is laughing it up over sensitive research into what makes apes laugh: To investigate that, Marina Davila Ross of the University of Portsmouth […]
Outchimped… with affection.
The Monkey Wire (no, really) is jumping with news of a study that shows chimpanzee babies are smarter than humans: Daily Express Professor Kim Bard, […]