I’m posting this at 3:30 AM on Wednesday, with just 16 hours left until the Orangutan Outreach Benefit Concert starts.
I finally finished all the signs and donation collectors, or “donation stations,” as I christened them. I tried to make this event as environmentally friendly as possible and used recycled materials for as many things as [...]
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Colugos (aka flying lemurs)—the closest living relatives of primates most notable for their ability to glide from tree to tree over considerable distances—are more diverse than had previously been believed, according to a new report published in the November 11th issue of Current Biology.
Primates are most familiarly represented by monkeys and [...]
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Reading this story makes me wonder if and how the results of studies on genetic differences between humans and other primates will affect animal rights legislation. What do you think?
Researchers have carried out the largest study of differences between human and chimpanzee genomes, identifying regions that have been duplicated or lost during evolution of the [...]
For the loving couple, their duet was simply a natural expression of romance. Neighbours of the gibbons’ zoo home, however, found their dawn singing was more of a rude awakening.
Now Samuel and Duana, a pair of agile gibbons, have been placed under curfew to give residents nearby some respite from their mating rituals.
Zoo [...]
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A group of orangutans who appeared in Hollywood films, television commercials and magazine advertisements is being relocated to Great Ape Trust of Iowa – a significant move that begins to close the curtain in the United States on the decades-long use of orangutans in the entertainment industry. Great Ape Trust, a scientific research facility in [...]
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Spain’s parliament recently passed a resolution granting legal rights to apes. Reaction has been mixed. Peter Singer, a Princeton University bioethics professor and animal liberation activist, declared the vote to be of “world historical significance.” The comedian Stephen Colbert — flashing a photo of a performing chimpanzee — insisted that the new law had better [...]
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The Sumatran orang-utan is now in such serious decline that it will take extraordinary efforts to prevent it becoming the first great ape species to become extinct.
The warning emerges from a compilation of a major orang-utan survey in 2004 together with the latest [...]
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Researchers in Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of Congo, France, Gabon, Germany, Japan, Rwanda, the United Kingdom, and the United States have found that simian foamy virus (SFV) is widespread among wild chimpanzees throughout equatorial Africa.
Recent studies have shown that humans who hunt wild primates, including chimpanzees, can acquire SFV infections. Since the long-term consequences of [...]
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Moe, a 42-year-old chimpanzee who grew up in suburbia until being forced to live in an animal sanctuary, was believed to be at large in a Southern California forest today after escaping from his cage.
Animal handlers were combing the San Bernardino National Forest about 50 miles east of Los Angeles.
“We think he may be hunkered [...]
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There’s a chimp on the loose in San Bernardino County.
County animal control staff and volunteers were fanning out Saturday across a densely forested area near the town of Devore in search of Moe the chimpanzee.
A friend of Moe’s owners says the chimp escaped Friday from his cage at an animal sanctuary near the [...]
