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• Marmoset Twins Cling Close to Mom

  
  ZooBorns — Authority: 595
  These tiny twins are the newest addition to the Pygmy Marmoset family in Houston Zoos Natural Encounters rainforest. Weighing in at about a half ounce as babies, marmosets are the smallest monkey in the world.
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• First Group of "Traditionalist" Anglicans in Britain Votes to Enter Catholic Church

  
  Particular Baptist Kev's Random Thoughts — Authority: 133
  By Hilary WhiteROME, November 6, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a move that is a surprise to no one, the UK branch of the Traditional Anglican Communion (TAC), the largest of the groups that broke away from the mainstream Anglican Church over the ordination of woman and the latter’s support for active homosexuality, ...
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• Anglican Communion of U.K. first to accept Pope’s offer

  
  Particular Baptist Kev's Random Thoughts — Authority: 133
  Members of The Traditional Anglican Church in Great Britain have announced that they will enter into communion with the Vatican under Pope Benedict XVI’s Apostolic Constitution for Anglicans, reports Catholic News Agency.According to the group’s website, members met on October 29 for their October 2009 Assembly. ...
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• Zoo Atlanta Gorilla Volunteers For Blood Pressure Exam

  
  World Zoo Today — Authority: 443
  Marc Pickard – 11alive.com Willie B, the iconic Zoo Atlanta gorilla, is still remembered nine years after he died from heart disease. His death not only saddened animal lovers everywhere but it also prompted ground-breaking research. That research could solve the mystery of heart disease in gorillas. Ozzie, one of ...
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• Horse genomics

  
  john hawks weblog — Authority: 521
  An interesting passage from the horse genome paper : We were unable to phylogenetically separate E. przewalskii from the domesticated horses, despite its different karyotype (2N = 66 versus 2N = 64 for the domesticated horse), which is in agreement with recent findings (16), whereas the donkey ( E. africanus ) ...
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• "Filled up with other books"

  
  john hawks weblog — Authority: 521
  The 1000 Genomes Project is for people. Now, is it time for 10,000 vertebrate genomes? Erika Check Hayden reports on the idea in Nature news: The initiative, called Genome 10K, aims to tackle thousands of vertebrate species. Project members write this week in the Journal of Heredity that the effort will ...
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• Hope comes to the Colobus Trust

  
  Cooler Choice — Authority: 161
  On Wednesday the 28th of October we had a visit from the children of The Hope Academy in Diani.  The main aim of their visit was to educate the pupils about the different primate species found in the Diani Beach area and to highlight the conservation issues they face, particularly regarding the Colobus Continued ...
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• The Dangers Of Composting…

  
  Cooler Choice — Authority: 161
  Greetings all Just a quickie tonight I’m afraid as things are all go here and time is a precious commodity at the moment! Us GVI folk here in Shimoni have had a busy weekend – we’ve moved into a new house!  This is good news for several reasons… Firstly, we are now slap bang in the middle of Read the ...
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• The Dangers Of Composting…

  
  GVI Kenya — Authority: 419
  Greetings all Just a quickie tonight I’m afraid as things are all go here and time is a precious commodity at the moment! Us GVI folk here in Shimoni have had a busy weekend – we’ve moved into a new house!  This is good news for several reasons… Firstly, we are now slap bang in the middle of the community, ...
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• Hope comes to the Colobus Trust

  
  Colobus Trust — Authority: 412
  On Wednesday the 28 th of October we had a visit from the children of The Hope Academy in Diani.  The main aim of their visit was to educate the pupils about the different primate species found in the Diani Beach area and to highlight the conservation issues they face, particularly regarding the Colobus monkey.  ...
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• Bahati the Bush Baby

  
  Colobus Trust — Authority: 412
  Bahati the bush baby has been with us for about 3 and a half weeks now- he is doing very well and things are looking up. He has started feeding on solid foods lately which is a good sign; he particularly seems to like bananas and papaya a lot. At least every volunteer at the trust takes turns to feed him everyday ...
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• NASA Running Tests On Spider Monkeys

  
  great big geek — Authority: 123
  For the first time in decades NASA is working with primates as part of the preparation for space missions. This time around spider monkeys are being exposed to radiation similar to that which a human might be exposed to when traveling to Mars. "We realized there was a need for this kind of work," Jack Bergman, a ...
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• Animal Grief

  
  MetaFilter — Authority: 738
  Grief among gorillas , chimpanzees , elephants , and magpies .
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• Get Your Dewanatron On

  
  Wanderlust — Authority: 443
  It’s 8pm on a Tuesday, but if you live in Los Angeles, that doesn’t sentence you to a night on the couch with Seinfeld and a TV dinner. There’s plenty to do, you just have to go out and find it. At Spaceland, for instance, a small, hip venue in Silverlake, a small, hip crowd is forming at the base of the stage. ...
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• Global warming cycles threaten endangered primate species

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  Washington, October 28 (ANI): In a new analysis, two Penn State University researchers have determined that global warming cycles threaten endangered primate species.This innovative work by Graduate Student Ruscena Wiederholt and Associate Professor of Biology Eric Post examined how El Nino warming affected the ...
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• Scientists disprove earliest apelike human ancestor

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  Washington, October 28 (ANI): In a new research, scientists have disproved the theory that the 50-million-year-old fossil of an “apelike” creature, discovered in 1992 in what is now northern Africa, was the earliest human ancestor, which adds weight to the idea that our earliest ancestors arose in Asia, not in ...
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• Zoo offers action-packed Orangutan Caring Week

  
  World Zoo Today — Authority: 443
  A special birthday party for four-year-old orangutan Madju and the launching of a nationwide ‘Don’t Palm Us Off’ campaign on Saturday 7 November (10am – 3pm) will mark the start of Orangutan Caring Week (7 – 14 November) at Auckland Zoo. Party-goers can enjoy free face painting, check out orangutan-related ...
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• Orphan Orangutan Smiles for the Camera

  
  ZooBorns — Authority: 595
  Two weeks ago we brought you pictures of baby Kali at the Kansas City Zoo . The little female orangutan had been abandoned by her mother but found a happy life with new surrogate mom "Jill." Today we check back in on baby Kali who is reportedly doing great.   Quite a yawn
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• It was supremely stupid of AA Gill to shoot a baboon for a restaurant review

  
  Telegraph.co.uk News Blog — Authority: 814
  Young baboons play at Hagenbeck Zoo, Germany (Photo: Rex Features)I’ve always admired AA Gill’s method. Recognising that 1,500 words about food would be utterly mundane, he arrogantly gives most of his restaurant reviews over to… well, whatever the hell he likes. It works superbly. He’s a brilliant observer, a ...
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• Bush Baby Update!

  
  Colobus Trust — Authority: 412
  We have been nursing the two infant bush babies that were rescued here in Diani. They were so young that at first we were not sure whether they would both survive but we decided to try anyway. The first bush baby, who we eventually named Bahati (meaning luck in Swahili), was about 3 weeks old; the other one, who ...
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