April 28 10
11-Million-Year-Old Primate Discovered In Garbage Dump: “A garbage dump in Catalonia, Spain, has just yielded an eleven-million-year-old new primate, according to the science news service SINC.
Named Pliopithecus canmatensis, after the site (Can Mata in the Vallès-Penedès basin), the primate belonged to an extinct family of Old World monkeys, Catarrhini, which dispersed from Africa to Eurasia.
The [...]
April 27 10
Squirrel Monkey Spotted In Florida's Pelican Bay: “Be on the lookout for the monkey in Pelican Bay.
He may be furry, fluffy and friendly, but he also may be harboring diseases that could cause serious illness or death to humans.
DeeDee Ream may have been the first to spot him. It was Saturday, dinner was being prepared [...]
April 18 10
Missing Monkey Captured In Cumbrian Church: “A missing South American monkey has been recaptured in a church, five days after escaping from an enclosure at a Cumbrian wild animal park.
The small Capuchin went missing from the South Lakes Wild Animal Park in Dalton on 8 April.
Park staff called in police, fearing for the animal’s safety.
The [...]
April 18 10
Amok Malaysian Monkey Shot Dead: “A monkey set off 10 hours of panic by attacking people in the tiny south western Sabah town of Weston before being shot dead by police.
The monkey had roamed the town and menaced residents, including biting Noraqilah Indrina Mohd Yassin, eight, on her leg.
Noraqilah was accompanying her mother to a [...]
April 18 10
Fugitive Monkey Makes Another Appearance In St. Pete: “The elusive monkey that has become a media sensation has been sighted once again, this time in St. Petersburg, and the video images of the wily simian are better than ever.
Rick Coffey spotted the rhesus macaque Saturday outside his home on Serpentine Drive in St. Petersburg.
Authorities don’t [...]
April 12 10
Police Warning After Monkey Escapes From Cumbrian Zoo: “A search is under way after a South American monkey escaped from a wild animal park in Cumbria.
The small beige Capuchin went missing from his enclosure at the South Lakes Wild Animal Park in Dalton.
Staff from the centre, which is home to dozens of exotic animals, called [...]
April 12 10
Uganda Plans To Kill Monkeys To Save Crops: “A plan to kill monkeys on a group of Lake Victoria islands in Uganda in order to protect lucrative palm fruits was condemned on Thursday by critics who said the measure would harm tourism.
Palm crops on Kalangala islands have been destroyed as the monkey population has exploded, [...]
April 3 10
A Moment Of Monkey Police Zen…: “A Thai police force has begun taking a monkey dressed in officer’s uniform on patrol each day to help improve relations with Muslim separatists.
The five-year-old pig-tailed macaque was adopted after policemen in Yaha province in southern Thailand found him injured with a broken arm.
Trainers taught Santisuk, which means peace [...]
April 3 10
Monkey On Shoulder Causes Bus Accident: “Driver Kumar Prabhakaran couldn’t leave his ‘friend’ behind. Now trouble isn’t leaving him.
The young man is almost accused of ‘monkeying around’ — steering a government-contracted bus with a monkey perched on his shoulder before he rammed the vehicle into a house, broke its wall and injured three persons today.
The [...]
