January 2012
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URGENT: Tell Air France to Stop Monkey Shipment to... →
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Did Bonobos Actually Tame Themselves? Scientists...
Bonobo monkeys are the ‘nicer’ cousins of the chimpanzee. The African apes are less aggressive, and have shorter canine teeth than their evolutionary cousins.
But between one and two million years ago, bonobos and chimps had one common evolutionary ancestor - and bonobos appear to have evolved to become gentler, nicer creatures.
Scientists say that the differences between the...
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Mugwai And Gremlin Welcome Their First-Born!
Paradise Wildlife Park in Broxbourne, U.K. is proud to announce the arrival of a baby Lar Gibbon born to mother Mugwai and father Gremlin on Thursday 5th January 2012. Mother and Baby are doing very well. Section Leader of Primates, Steve Goodwin says, “This is the first baby for Mugwai, but she is proving to be a really good mum. We haven’t been able to get close enough to sex the baby...
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Aye-Aye Lemur 'Heats Up' Its Special Foraging...
Madagascar’s mysterious aye-aye warms up its extra-long finger when searching for dinner, scientists have found.
The lemur, the world’s largest nocturnal primate, taps its specialised middle finger on tree trunks to find nutritious beetle larvae.
Studying thermal images, researchers found that the digit was colder than the others but warmed by up to 6C during foraging.
Scientists...
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Most Recent European Great Ape Discovered
A seven million year old pre-molar of a hominid discovered near the Bulgarian town of Chirpan documents that great apes survived longer in Europe than previously believed. An international team of scientists from the Bulgarian Academy of Science, the French Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, and Madelaine Böhme from the Senckenberg Center for Human Evolution and Paleoenvironment at...
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When fruit is scarce, try chomping on a slow loris. That seems to be the strategy adopted by the normally vegetarian orang-utans, which have been spotted knocking the small primates out of trees and killing them with a bite to the head.
Sumatran orang-utans (Pongo abelii) get almost all their nutrients from fruit and other plant products, but there are a few isolated reports of them eating meat...
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Baby Bonobo Born At Twycross Zoo!
Twycross Zoo is pleased to announce the birth of an extremely important baby Bonobo! In the early hours of Friday 6th January 2012, Maringa gave birth to a baby girl weighing in at a very healthy 1.44 kilograms after an eight and a half month pregnancy. Charlotte Macdonald, Living Collection Curator, said: “When keepers arrived at the enclosure to find Maringa had given birth, they...
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It's A Girl! Baby Chimpanzee Born At North...
A baby chimpanzee was born at the North Carolina Zoo Monday evening. The little female has been named Ebi. This is the second baby for Mom Tammy, a 41-year-old female, who had previously given birth to Maki in March 1994.
Both mother and daughter are doing fine. Tammy is caring for her infant without any intervention from zoo staff members. The two are not on exhibit and will not be in the...
A very quick diversion from primates...
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Study Shows Early Primate Had A Transitional...
Celebrities are channeling a distant relative with what Harper’s Bazaar describes as the latest trend in nail fashion for 2012: claws. But this may not be the first time primates traded their nails for claws.
A new study co-authored by a University of Florida researcher examines the first extinct North American primate with a toe bone showing features associated with the presence of both...
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Crested Macaque Monkeys Follow Friends Before...
Crested macaque monkeys look to their friends for “guidance” more readily than to their family, according to scientists.
The University of Portsmouth team that made this discovery measured how quickly one monkey would follow the gaze of another.
Gaze following is very important in macaque society - helping the animals to find food or spot potential danger.
The findings...
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First Ever Photos of Rare, Critically Endangered...
stevecooksey:
Camera traps in Burma capture the first-ever images of the Myanmar snub-nosed monkey, a primate species identified in 2010 when a local hunter produced a carcass. They are considered to be critically endangered, with a total population estimated at only a few hundred.
First Ever Photos of Rare, Critically Endangered Myanmar snub-nosed monkey
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Deforestation or Murder? Why Orangutans are Going... →
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“Conservationists have made the orangutan a symbol of what will be lost if we do not halt tropical deforestation. But data tell a more nuanced story. In Kalimantan on the island of Borneo, humans murder so many orangutans each year (on average, between 1,970 and 3,100 annually) that this rate of killing is enough to tip the species towards inexorable extinction. These numbers are...
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Anonymous asked: Have you ever been to Twycross zoo? f you haven't you should, it's my favorite zoo, second is Paignton... then Chester then Bristol (: x But I expect you have been to Twycross for obvious reasons.
224. Duran at Zoo Dresden
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Duran is an incredibly adorable little orangutan at the Dresden Zoo who will celebrate his second birthday on January 30, 2012. It’s okay if this first picture is so cute it brings a tear to your eye.
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This is the TV programme I mentioned last night. ‘Rogue Baboon’ on 4oD.
I’m not sure whether you can watch it outside of the UK, hopefully you can.
It’s definitely worth a watch.
Anonymous asked: Is eye contact important for all great apes during social interaction, and if it is, is this just the greater apes, or do other primates also use eye contact in social interaction? x
UK Followers!
Ch4, 9pm tonight. Anatomical dissection of an alpha male Baboon. This particular male was especially intelligent, and organised his troop to strategically attack houses, people and buildings…Should be interesting!
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Anonymous asked: What are your feelings on the way Dian Fossey worked?
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saranthropology asked: I study anthropology, specifically physical and biological anthro, but I love studying Primates and have heavily considered trying to go in to Primatology. You may have already answered this, but what are some opportunities for Primatologists after they get out of grad school? Thanks!
Anonymous asked: I'll always have a special place in my heart for Gorillas, there's something in their eyes that make them so easy to connect with and love. But one of the most horrific pictures I have ever seen was of all that was left of one, once a poacher had slaughtered it. Just it's hands and head, with such a sad, painful look in its eyes. I'll never forget that photograph.
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Wooly White Baby Colobus Arrives At Drusillas Park
The UK’s Drusillas Park is celebrating the arrival of a baby Colobus monkey - the first to be bred at the Zoo. The little scamp was born on November 18 and is looking extremely alert alongside parents, Elgon and Isis. Born covered in wooly white fur resembleing a lamb, it will be approximately six months before the baby develops the black and white color like the adults.
The new arrival...
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Critically Endangered Spider Monkey Born At...
Born December 8, these are the early pictures of a new baby Veriegated Spider Monkey at the UK’s Twycross Zoo. This is the first Spider monkey baby born there in 10 years. And as you can see, the baby’s mum takes good care to cradle her baby when outdoors. At times, the whole family gathers round while the baby sleeps, secure on it’s mother’s shoulder.
Veriegated...
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Chimpanzees Consider Their Audience When...
Chimpanzees appear to consider who they are “talking to” before they call out.
Researchers found that wild chimps that spotted a poisonous snake were more likely to make their “alert call” in the presence of a chimp that had not seen the threat.
This indicates that the animals “understand the mindset” of others.
The insight into the primates’...
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