BBC reports on Raku, a Sumatran orangutan, who has become the first non-human animal observed creating medicine – intentionally mashing up plants to create a paste to smear on an … Read the rest “Orangutan makes his own medicine.”
New Scientist has a different kind of drug story, about primatologists in Gabon who have spotted chimpanzees rubbing their wounds with winged insects – apparently using the bugs… Read the rest “Chimpanzees use insects as medicine.”
BBC says that’s what’s going on in the Netherlands. The baboons were terrified, but no one knows why;
… Read the rest “Zookeepers baffled by spooked baboons.”The behaviour started on Monday evening, and only now are the 112 baboons
SONG: “National Primate Home.” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “Call for NIH research chimpanzees… Read the rest “SONG: National Primate Home”
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 “Brehm’s Life of Animals”)… Read the rest “Science Art: Chimpanzee, from Brehm’s Tierleben, 1860s.”
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 live in lots of different social… Read the rest “Humans: The *sociable* ape?”
Not people hunting chimpanzees, Scientific American reports, but chimpanzees hunting monkeys:
… Read the rest “Chimpanzee hunters drive endangered monkeys to the brink.”According to a study published May 9 in the American Journal of Primatology, this is the
It’s really hard to beat the Christian Science Monitor’s headline on this story…. Monkeys hate flying squirrels, report monkey-annoyance experts:
… Read the rest “Need to bother your monkey? Try flying squirrels!”“Human
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 over land rights:
… Read the rest “Chimp War.”During a decade of
Nature says it’s true: Rhesus monkeys will trade items of value – in this case, juice – in return for sexy monkey booty shots:
… Read the rest “Monkeys pay for porn.”The researchers gave captive male rhesus
And, Wired says, we’re just about able to understand their vocabulary… and their grammar:
… Read the rest “Monkey talk.”Lemasson’s team previously described the monkeys’ use of calls with specific meanings
OK, not monkeys, but apes, New Scientist says, have been caught making musical instruments:
… Read the rest “Monkey music.”The orang-utan’s music, if you can call it that, is actually an alarm call known as a “kiss
The AP is laughing it up over sensitive research into what makes apes laugh:
… Read the rest “Laughing apes.”To investigate that, Marina Davila Ross of the University of Portsmouth in England and colleagues carried out
The Monkey Wire (no, really) is jumping with news of a study that shows chimpanzee babies are smarter than humans:
… Read the rest “Outchimped… with affection.”Daily Express
Professor Kim Bard, of the Centre for the Study of Emotion
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