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• Feeding monkeys the cause of all that aggression

  
  wildsingapore news — Authority: 571
  Straits Times Forum 11 Dec 09;I REFER to Mondays Forum Online letter by Mr Timothy Chow, MacRitchie monkeys getting bolder.The aggressive behaviour of monkeys is the outcome of feeding by irresponsible members of the public. Feeding monkeys alters their natural behaviour, and makes them too familiar with humans. As a ...
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• Why King Kong failed to impress: Humans, apes use odor-detecting...

  
  Science nature & education - science-nature.marc8.com — Authority: 155
  Humans have the same receptors for detecting odors related to sex as do other primates. But each species uses them in different ways, stemming from the way the genes for these receptors have evolved over time, according to researchers.
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• The Beatles 3000

  
  The Skwib — Authority: 420
  A documentary from the future! I love this spoof of history and archeology; it’s goofy and absurd: Click here to view the embedded video. The Beatles 3000 Alltop and humor-blogs.com are destined to be fed to Emperor Gorlock in 2652.
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• Humans, apes use odor-detecting receptors differently

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Washington, Dec 9 (ANI): Apes and humans have same receptors for detecting odours related to sex, but they are used in different ways in all the species which plays a major role in mate selection and prevents cross-species couplings, according to Duke University researchers.All the species use odour receptors in ...
  2 days ago

• Rumors Circulate over Cancellation of Anthrax Project

  
  Critter News — Authority: 132
  Research supporters are going crazy over Oklahoma State University stopping anthrax testing on baboons. In addition to the threat of animal "extremists," they are also blaming T. Boone Pickens wife Madeleine, whose husband is a big donor.
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• University, Fearing Animal-Rights Violence, Axes Baboon Study

  
  80beats — Authority: 637
  Last week, seemingly out of nowhere, Oklahoma State University president Burns Hargis pulled the plug on a federally funded research project that would have tested anthrax vaccines on baboons, and euthanized the primates at the experiment’s end. This week more details are beginning to come out regarding why Hargis ...
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• Boom Boom Krak-oo! Have Monkeys Demonstrated Syntax?

  
  80beats — Authority: 637
  Birds, whales, monkeys, and other animals constantly demonstrate simple communication through a variety of sounds. But one thing that has always separated them from humans, scientists thought, is that they haven’t achieved syntax—stringing together multiple different sounds to create another meaning, or what we ...
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• Thank you San Antonio Zoo!

  
  Colobus Trust — Authority: 410
  Our deepest thanks to San Antonio Zoo for their generous donation to the Colobus Trust! Their contribution will hugely help in the conservation of primates and habitat on the south coast of Kenya.
  3 days ago

• Teach your Gibbon well

  
  Cute Overload — Authority: 625
  We’ve just been informed the National Geographic Photo contest has announced their winners … Here’s one of them, courtesy of the fine folks over at Nat Geo. It’s called “Baby Gibbon Gets Schmutz Taken Off Cheek by Mom” Posted in Uncategorized Tagged: Primates
  3 days ago

• Macaques to be neutered, wild boar hunting encouraged: Johor

  
  wildsingapore news — Authority: 571
  Bad apes to be neuteredThe Star 8 Dec 09;NUSAJAYA: Johor plans to neuter macaques “terrorising” four villages in Pontian in an effort to curb their population.State International Trade and Industry, Energy, Water, Commu­nications and Environment Commit­tee chairman Tan Kok Hong said the operation would be ...
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• Study highlights gibbon trade in Indonesia

  
  wildsingapore news — Authority: 571
  TRAFFIC 7 Dec 09;The majority of gibbons in rescue centres and zoos in Indonesia are animals confiscated by the auhorities or abandoned pets Click photo to enlarge © TRAFFIC Southeast Asia Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 7 December—A study focussing on the trade in gibbons, recently published in the journal Endangered ...
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• Wired - Rudiments of Language Discovered in Monkeys

  
  Integral Options Cafe — Authority: 437
  Very cool - and not at all surprising. Rudiments of Language Discovered in Monkeys By Brandon Keim December 7, 2009 ...
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• Rudiments of Language Discovered in Monkeys

  
  Wired Science — Authority: 750
  Campbell’s monkeys appear to combine the same calls in different ways, using rules of grammar that turn sound into language. Whether their rudimentary syntax echoes the speech of humanity’s evolutionary ancestors, or represents an emergence of language unrelated to our own, is unclear. Either way, they’re far ...
  3 days ago

• Gorillas in Somaliland?

  
  StrangeArk — Authority: 129
  Two gorillas were allegedly seen in the mountainous area "about 20-kms east of the town of Sheikh in Somaliland." (News source.)
  3 days ago

• African children on gorilla warfare mission in run-up to COP15

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 142
  "It’s the gorillas I’ve got to thank for bringing me here,” said Sephora Binet-Mboti, (13), as she gazed up, wide-eyed, at the Eiffel Tower in Paris.She was a long way from her in home in Central Africa where she lives in Gabon at subsistence level in a clapboard house with her parents and nine brothers and ...
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• Hyenas cooperate more easily than chimpanzees

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 142
  Spotted hyenas ( Crocuta crocuta ) could show chimpanzees a thing or two about working together, according to a new study. Hyenas, prodigious hunters, pull down prey together. Christine M. Drea, an associate professor in the department of Evolutionary Biology at Duke University, started to ask questions about the ...
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• What types of primates are most prone to extinction in small forest fragments?

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 142
  According to the most recent IUCN assessment, 48 percent of primates are threatened with extinction. Major threats to primates include habitat loss and fragmentation, hunting, and the wildlife trade. A new paper published in Tropical Conservation Science looked at ones of these threats — fragmentation — in an ...
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• Protest To Stop Pointless Radiation Experiments

  
  Critter News — Authority: 132
  PETA organized protests to stop these stupid radiation experiments on spider monkeys. The purpose is to determine how astronauts would fare on the way to Mars. To Mars? We cant even get out of Afghanistan and were going to Mars. When? Next year? Give me an effing break.
  5 days ago

• Freaky Search Friday – December 4, 2009

  
  R.W. Ridley — Authority: 423
  I give you clown badman... I mean zombie tattoo face... or is that Willem Defoe? Freaky Search Friday is back. HEY-HO-HEY-HO-HEY-HO, We were on a brief break due to the holidays, but the freaks didn’t go anywhere.  They were out there tapping unusual words and phrases into their favorite search engine, waiting to ...
  6 days ago

• Your Daily Photo (Anderson Coopers Favorite Primates Edition)

  
  Immodest Proposals — Authority: 427
  Teabagging, its not just for humans playing Halo.
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