Trapped Orangutan Puts a Face on Wildlife Struggles
May 15, 2012 by Zoe
Chimp Santino Plans His Attacks on Zoo Visitors
May 14, 2012 by Michael Mountain
Santino has never had much patience for the humans who come to gawp at him at the Furuvik Zoo in Sweden. Fifteen years ago, at age 12, he began picking up stones, storing them for future use, and hurling them at visitors. But his war on his captors has been escalating and has reached new levels [...]
PBS Takes Up the Chimp Testing Debate
May 12, 2012 by Michael Mountain
There are no other animals quite like them, except us. They share 99 percent of our DNA, and it shows. They scheme, plot and fight. They care for their babies, and they grieve their dead. And they love a good game of catch, emphasis on good, as I discovered. PBS NewsHour reporter Miles O’Brien visits [...]
Candid GorillaCam
May 8, 2012 by Michael Mountain
The camera had been placed along the path by members of the Wildlife Conservation Society, which is looking to save this highly endangered species (250 of them remaining) from extinction.
Bob Barker to Chimps: “Come On Down!”
May 4, 2012 by Michael Mountain
Last year, he donated $380,000 for a new habitat at Chimp Haven. And last week, the irrepressible Bob Barker flew down to the sanctuary in Louisiana to cut the ribbon — or rather to pick up the microphone and call out to five newly arrived chimpanzees: “Come on down!”
Where’s Oscar?
April 25, 2012 by Michael Mountain
Adorable Oscar, the star of the Disneynature movie Chimpanzee, has gone AWOL. In fact, according to the movie’s director, Mark Linfield, Oscar hasn’t been seen since the filmmakers left his forest on Africa’s Ivory Coast last September.
Highway Robbery – Baboon Style
April 25, 2012 by Michael Mountain
It used to be that the humans were bothering the baboons. Now it’s the other way round. People visiting Yankari Game Reserve in Nigeria are having their purses snatched by teams of baboon pickpockets who are a lot faster and smarter than their victims.
How Orangutans Make (Comfy) Beds
April 19, 2012 by Michael Mountain
An orangutan peeks out of her nest in the Sumatran forest. (All photos by Adam van Casteren) You climb high up into the trees, where the view is just stunning, and select the perfect spot for a hammock. Then, expertly, you pull branches across each other, half-breaking them so they stay attached to the trunk [...]
Spellbound by Baboons
April 16, 2012 by Michael Mountain
Dan is a baboon who lives at the Cognitive Research Laboratory in France. He and five other baboons have had access to a computer that stores 500 real four-letter words and nearly 8,000 non-words, like XFOP or TYWQ.
Will Israel Ban Monkey Exports to U.S.?
April 4, 2012 by Michael Mountain
Israel’s attorney-general, Yehuda Weinstein, has told the nation’s High Court of Justice that it is illegal for a vivisection breeding farm to export their macaque monkeys to laboratories in the United States.
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