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• Whats Your Christmas Card List Got to Do With the Development of the Human Brain?

  
  Boing Boing — Authority: 889
  It is safe to say that our primate ancestors and the early humans they begot never picked out sparkly snowflake paper, wrote up a missive about Og and Janes many achievements in the last cycle and handed out copies to all their friends, relations and hunt/gather coworkers.But, according to anthropologist Robin Dunbar, ...
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• Orang utans reintroduced to the wild with transmitter implants

  
  wildsingapore news — Authority: 528
  Orang utan with implantsMuguntan Vanar, The Star 24 Nov 09;KOTA KINABALU: The Sabah Wildlife Department marked a milestone with its orang utan rehabilitation when it became the first in the world to use transmitter implants to monitor progress of the primates reintroduced into the wild.The transmitter, the size of a ...
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• Especially If You’re Not a Stanford Grad

  
  Personal Revelations of the Magnificent Megan M. — Authority: 112
  Watch this through to the end. Do not be confused by the cant of his closing: This message applies to Stanford grads, kindergarten grads, recluses on mountaintops, people with wristwatches, and everyone in between.
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• Transmitters implanted in orangutans for tracking after release into the wild

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 142
  For the first time transmitters have been implanted in orangutans to track their daily movements. The Sabah Wildlife Department (SWD) has implanted transmitters into three orangutans that have been released back into the wild from Sepilok Orangutan Rehabilitation Center in the Malaysian state of Sabah on the island of ...
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• Meet the Howlers!

  
  April Pulley Sayre Children's Book Author — Authority: 110
  Meet the howlers! These rain forest dwellers are loud and sloppy. Good thing their manners are for monkeys only! This book was inspired by our observations of howler monkeys in Panama. Release date in hardback and paperback: February 2010.
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• Florida Monkeyshines

  
  StrangeArk — Authority: 129
  A few primate sightings (baboon, monkey, etc.) have been reported in the Tampa and Hillsborough areas. (Here, and here.)
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• In the jungle, the mighty jungle…

  
  Colobus Trust — Authority: 410
  On Wednesday afternoon staff and volunteers from the Colobus Trust completed a 3-day census of Colobus monkeys in the Gongoni Forest Reserve. WWF had given us a small amount of funding to conduct the census, which would use the Colobus monkey as an indicator of the quality of the forest. We had rangers from the Kenya ...
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• Bush Baby Bahati

  
  Colobus Trust — Authority: 410
  Dear Readers, We apologise for the lack of updates recently from the Trust! We’ve had a lot going on which we’ll update you all on in the next few days. Regular visitors to our blog will know that we rescued a Bush Baby which we named Bahati. He was a favourite with the visiting school children as well as all ...
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• Yet Another Hobbits Are A New Human Species Study

  
  The Dragon's Tales — Authority: 134
  Researchers from Stony Brook University Medical Center in New York have confirmed that Homo floresiensis is a genuine ancient human species and not a descendant of healthy humans dwarfed by disease. Using statistical analysis on skeletal remains of a well-preserved female specimen, researchers determined the "hobbit" ...
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• Vervet Monkeys

  
  Potspoon! — Authority: 410
  These monkeys ( Cercopithecus aethiops sabaeus ) were imported to the Eastern Caribbean by Europeans who wanted them as pets. Due to their release, they are now part of the wildlife in St. Kitts and Nevis . They have many common names including savanna monkey, singe vert monkey, green monkey, and more. They ...
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• Strained Carrots? My Favorite!

  
  Cute Overload — Authority: 650
  (Man, this is the sweetest babysitting gig ever.  The kid smears the food on his face, and I get to lick it off.  I hope he managed to get some dessert on the other side.) That’s got to be the cleanest baby in history, Samantha M. Posted in Uncategorized Tagged: Chub, I shall leeck you, Interspecies Snorgling, ...
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• Chimpanzee Murder, Conspiracy and Suicide Featured in New Play

  
  Discovery News - Technology — Authority: 697
  What soap opera or TV thriller hasnt featured murder, conspiracy and suicide? We all know humans are capable of these things, but a new play, "Hominid," puts a twist on the drama by having human actors re-enact such events that ...
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• Primates Do Not Make Good Pets

  
  BASIL & SPICE--LIVING GREEN! — Authority: 132
  Shawn Messonnier, DVM-- What could be cuter than a tiny baby monkey snuggling up with you? The answer is probably not a whole lot, as baby monkeys strongly bond to their caretakers. If you love human babies, chances are you’ll love primate babies as well. But as is the case with human babies, baby monkeys also ...
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• The Planet of the Apes Meets Online Poker

  
  newsmag.us offers latest news and information — Authority: 154
  I’m sure everyone at one time or another has seen a painting of a group of gentlemanly canines engaged in an anthropomorphic game of poker as created by Cassius Coolidge in his wonderful series of poker playing dog paintings. But check this out, the artists whimsicality was not entirely removed from reality. You may ...
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• Conservationists do deal with the devil to save orang-utans

  
  wildsingapore news — Authority: 528
  Agreement sought with palm-oil industry to create ape-saving forest corridorsLewis Smith, The Independent 16 Nov 09;Wildlife campaigners have made "a deal with the devil" in a bid to save the orang-utan from being driven into extinction. They have teamed up with the palm-oil industry, widely condemned by ...
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• Releasing rehabilitated orang utans in Borneos forests

  
  wildsingapore news — Authority: 528
  Into the wild, once againA rehabilitator plans to start releasing rescued orangutans back into Borneos forests. But there are concerns whether the tamed apes will survive out there.Andrew Higgins, The Washington Post 14 Nov 09;PALANGKA RAYA, INDONESIA -- Over the past decade, Lone Droescher-Nielsen, a former ...
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• Finger length in primates linked with cooperative, competitive & sexual behavior!

  
  Finger length & DIGIT RATIO hand news! — Authority: 93
  Finger length in primates linked with cooperative, competitive, and sexual behavior! Research at the universities of Liverpool and Oxford into the finger length of various primate species has revealed that cooperative, competive & sexual behavior is linked to exposure to hormone levels in the ...
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• "Naturalized" Photo and Video Depict Integration of Virtual and Physical Worlds

  
  Botgirl's Second Life Diary — Authority: 125
  The photo above is the latest in a series of images and videos shot with an iPhone. These naturalized images take me into a physical world setting without any green screen tricks to fake my placement in a physical world environment. Outside of clean-up to fix color balance and some minor air-brushing, what was there ...
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• Break Out the Pitchforks and Torches!

  
  Cute Overload — Authority: 650
  Washington, D.C. — Outraged legislators renewed calls for banning human-animal hybrids after researchers at the Frankenstein Institute for Extremely Scary Science announced the creation of a “lambaby.”  According to a spokesperson for an angry mob that stormed the Institute, “arghle grumble blaarphle rhubarb ...
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• Professor Robert Sapolsky on "The Uniqueness of Humans"

  
  Yer Sweet Chimneys — Authority: 118
  
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