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...
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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...
