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• Break Out the Pitchforks and Torches!

  
  Cute Overload — Authority: 638
  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"

  
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• 300-Pound Gorilla Voluntarily Monitors His Blood Pressure

  
  Discovery News - Technology — Authority: 737
  Imagine trying to monitor the blood pressure of a 300-pound gorilla. A new device, described in the following release from Georgia Institute of Technology Research News, makes that job a lot easier: Zoo Atlanta recently became the first zoological institution ...
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• NASA’s Plan to Irradiate Monkeys Raises Cruelty Concerns

  
  80beats — Authority: 653
  If NASA ever wants to send astronauts on long-term space flights , it needs to know how radiation will affect the crew. Testing humans obviously isn’t going to happen, so NASA is funding a round of experiments to study how radiation effects monkeys, the first time monkeys have been used as test subjects by NASA ...
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• A Statement from the GAFCON/FCA Primates Council in response to the Pope’s Offer

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 590
  We have received the Archbishop of Canterbury’s letter informing us of the Pope’s offer of an ‘Apostolic Constitution’ for those Anglicans who wish to be received into the Roman Catholic Church. We believe that this offer is a gracious one and reflects the same commitment to the historic apostolic faith, ...
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• Encore (Kinda): Orangutan and Hound

  
  Cute Overload — Authority: 638
  A while back, Meg featured some orangumazing photos of Suryia and Roscoe, the orangutan and hound-dog buddies.  Now, thanks to sender-inner Marilyn T., you can see the heartwarming story of how they met.  On your mark, get set, awwww! Posted in Uncategorized Tagged: Interspecies Snorgling, Primates, ...
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• Only £4.99 for Cuddly Chimps - Baby Chimp - Gifts

  
  My Bloggerings — Authority: 158
  £4.99 Info / Buy Product Information The softest, squidgiest and most enchanting primates on the planet I Want One Of Those Information Only £4.99 for for the Cuddly Chimps - Baby Chimp from I Want One Of Those gives real moneys worth. The I Want One ...
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• A child’s way of counting reveals why we are so smart.

  
  Blogs — Authority: 159
  Ask any four-year-old child for his age, and chances are he will hold up four fingers. He will count and add with his fingers too, and this is true for children all over the world. To count with your fingers, you need to be able to move each separately, a skill not found in all mammals. In fact, most ...
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• Illusory Freedom - Reclaiming Liberty

  
  http://newilluminati.blog-city.com — Authority: 422
  Illusory Freedom Reclaiming Liberty     var page_note_ratio = 1;                   All modern societies on planet Earth follow patterns laid down long before the time of the Roman Empire. ...
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• El Niño Cycles Threaten Some New World Monkey Populations

  
  wildsingapore news — Authority: 582
  A new study explores how El Niño weather patterns impact fruit- and leaf-eating primates in Central and South AmericaCarina Storrs Scientific American 4 Nov 09;El Niño conditions in the Pacific Ocean wreak havoc on monkey populations, either in the midst of the periodic hot and dry spells or in their chilly ...
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• Fuzzy Type

  
  We Love You So - Where The Wild Things Are - Spike Jonze — Authority: 644
  Pop quiz. What’s fuzzy, warm, and reminds you equally of your dad and gorillas? Anwswer: beards. Only a select percentage of the population (hairy men) can grow these timeless facial accessories, but the rest of us can participate in the fun by downloading this awesome BEARD FONT . It is surprisingly subtle.
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• Brains, Bodies, and How Kids Count

  
  Blogs — Authority: 159
  Ask any four-year-old child for his age, and chances are he will hold up four fingers. He will count and add with his fingers too, and this is true for children all over the world. To count with your fingers, you need to be able to move each separately, a skill not found in all mammals. In fact, most ...
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• A child’s way of counting reveals why we are so smart.

  
  Eyes on the Brain — Authority: 91
  Ask any four-year-old child for his age, and chances are he will hold up four fingers. He will count and add with his fingers too, and this is true for children all over the world. To count with your fingers, you need to be able to move each separately, a skill not found in all mammals. In fact, most ...
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• Do Primates Feel Compassion?

  
  Healthy and Green Living — Authority: 605
  Morality is usually seen as the exclusive province of humans with highly developed brains. But world-famous primatologist Frans de Waal believes primates like chimpanzees and bonobos are moral creatures too. Ethics, he feels, is an inborn biological trait.That is not the prevailing scientific view. De Waal describes ...
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• Disney commits $4 million to rainforest conservation in the Amazon, Congo

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 138
  The Walt Disney Company will invest $7 million in forest conservation projects in the U.S., the Congo Basin, and the Amazon in an effort to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions.
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• And the winner is….

  
  Cute Overload — Authority: 638
  NOM-VEMBER!* OK, it was frakking close , we can celebrate both. This is the Overload afterall. BRING IT ON! Thanks for finally making a call, Sarah L. (who’s never met a Vervet monkeh she didn’t like) *As of press time, ‘Nom-vember was barely squeaking by at 49%, People! Posted in Uncategorized ...
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• Hope comes to the Colobus Trust

  
  Colobus Trust — Authority: 410
  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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• The Intellectual nonProperty Sutra aka Gospel of The Word

  
  Botgirl's Second Life Diary — Authority: 418
  I was inspired to write this after viewing an excerpt of a lecture by Jay Rosen of NYU on the Ethic of the Link . I Before the beginning The Nameless was. Infinite. Timeless. Whole. In the beginning there was The Word. The Word birthed Humankind. The Word was Humankind. And it was good. II For 10,000 years The ...
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• Chimps Hold Moving ‘Funeral’ for Fallen Maternal Leader

  
  ANIMAL — Authority: 717
  The photo above, which has been circulating wildly on the net in the past 24 hours, is something that I found it so moving that I just had to post it. It’s an image published in the November issue of National Geographic of a deceased chimp named Dorothy who was cared for by the Cameroon’s Sanaga-Yong ...
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• Climate change will further endanger monkeys

  
  EcoTone — Authority: 415
  A critically endangered northern muriqui in Brazil. Photo by Carla B. Possamai, provided by K.B. StrierA study out today in Biology Letters shows that global warming will likely drive several species of primates closer to extinction by increasing the severity and frequency of El Niño and La Niña events (the El Niño ...
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