Cheetah, Chimp From Tarzan Films, Dies: “
Condolences poured in to a Florida primate sanctuary Wednesday after the death of Cheetah, a chimpanzee who starred in the Tarzan movies during the 1930s.
‘I grew up watching Tarzan and Cheetah from a boy,’ a man identifying himself as Thomas from England wrote on the Suncoast Primate Sanctuary’s website. [...]
On Nov. 29, 1961, Enos the chimp was launched from Cape Canaveral aboard the Mercury-Atlas 5 spacecraft, which orbited earth twice before returning.
(Via Dorey News.)
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Research Finds Poop-Throwing By Chimps Is A Sign Of Intelligence: “
A lot of people who have gone to the zoo have become the targets of feces thrown by apes or monkeys, and left no doubt wondering about the so-called intellectual capacity of a beast that would resort to such foul play. Now however, researchers studying [...]
Palm Coast Monkey Shot With Tranquilizer Dart Flees Police: “
Flagler County’s latest fugitive threw a bit of a monkey wrench at law enforcement Sunday.
A rhesus monkey perched in a tree fended off capture for six hours and then gave officers the slip.
Joyce Ramirez, a Palm Coast resident, saw the monkey in a patch of woods [...]
Chimps’ Days in Research May Be Near an End: “A major push by advocacy groups could bring a decision within a year to stop lab experiments assailed as cruel and unnecessary.”
(Via NYT > Monkeys and Apes.)
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Drunk Man Attacked By Zoo Monkeys:
Spider monkeys attacked a man who jumped into their enclosure at a zoo in Brazil.
MYFOXNY.COM – A drunk man, who attempted to cool off by swimming over to a monkey enclosure at a Brazilian zoo, ended up being attacked and badly injured.
Video showed Joao Leite dos Santos after he peeled [...]
Chimp Breaks Out At Texas Zoo, But Doesn’t Get Far: “
Dallas Zoo officials said a chimpanzee escaped from her enclosure on Tuesday morning.
Officials said Koko got out of her bedroom and roamed into the hallway. Zoo keepers were cleaning her cage when they realized she was not in her normal area. She got out of [...]
Brain implant lets monkeys control virtual hand and feel virtual objects: ”
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Posse Kills, Captures Escaped Animals; Monkey Still Loose In Ohio: “
Armed deputies have found and killed nearly all the animals — including lions, tigers and bears — that escaped from a Zanesville, Ohio, private preserve on Tuesday, the local sheriff told reporters early this afternoon.
Investigators believe the preserve’s owner, Terry Thompson, freed the 50-or-so animals [...]
Iran Space Monkey Launch Attempt Fails: “
Iran acknowledged as a failure on Wednesday its attempt to send a live monkey into space last month — touted as its first step towards launching a man into space.
‘The Kavoshgar-5 rocket carrying a capsule with a live animal (a monkey) was launched during Shahrivar,’ an Iranian calendar month [...]
