Experiment Creates Advertisements To Sell Food To Monkeys:
Keith Olwell and Elizabeth Kiehner had an epiphany last year. At a TED talk, the two New York advertising executives learned that captive monkeys understand money, and that when faced with economic games they will behave in similar ways to humans. So if they can cope with money, [...]
Baboon Mania Hits New Jersey After Escape
The olive baboon that most-likely escaped from Great Adventure in Jackson, N.J., is has been tranquilized and taken to the park for a medical assessment, a Six Flags spokesperson said Saturday afternoon, which marks the end of a three-day effort to bring her home.
The 2-year-old female baboon had been [...]
Gorilla In France Lives With Zoo Manager: “
A gorilla in France is living with a zoo manager and his wife in their home.
Digit, a 13-year-old female, spends her days in an enclosure with other animals at a zoo near Lyon.
But at night, she goes to stay with Pierre Thivillon and his wife Elianne who consider [...]
Woman Falls To her Death After Monkey Pounces On Her: “A 35-year-old woman was today killed when she fell from the terrace of her house after a monkey pounced on her in Ranipur town of the district, police said.Poonam had gone to the terrace for some work when a monkey pounced on her. Frightened by [...]
Breakdancing Gorilla Video Goes Viral: “
Calgary Zoo’s ‘breakdancing’ gorilla Zola entered strange territory Tuesday as his Internet video spread around the globe and crossed over into international news.
The video collected nearly a quarter-million views on YouTube by Tuesday afternoon and stories of his funky feat showed up on news sites, blogs and Facebook pages.
With the [...]
Research Monkey Escapes From Emory University: “
A monkey has gone missing in Lawrenceville.
A 2-year-old female rhesus monkey was counted absent from its compound at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center near Collins Hill Road more than a week ago, according to a statement released by the center.
Officials noticed the primate, which weighs about five pounds, [...]
'Gangster' Monkeys Removed From Cambodian Temple: “
A gang of big, ’sharp-toothed’ monkeys have been caught at a Phnom Penh temple as part of a crackdown on the unruly animals after a spate of attacks on visiting tourists, a zoo official said on Friday.
‘Phnom Penh authorities asked us to remove the violent monkeys from the temple… [...]
Iran Plans To Send Monkey Into Space: “
Iran plans to send a live monkey into space, a media report said on Thursday.
The space capsule designed to carry a live monkey was unveiled by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in February.
‘The Kavoshgar-5 rocket will be launched during the month of Mordad (July 23 to August 23) with a [...]
Florida's Mystery Monkey Spotted Again!: “
The monkey really is alive and well. And we have video to prove it.
Following a story published this week in the St. Petersburg Times about a rhesus macaque’s elusive ways, a reader who gets regular visits from the Mystery Monkey e-mailed a video he took from his home.
The 27-second video [...]
Animal welfare workers were contacted by a Kagiso resident traumatized by the incident, in which a vervet monkey was beaten, pelted with stones, shot at and burned to death.
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — Animal welfare groups in South Africa have condemned the ‘barbaric’ killing of a vervet monkey by a mob of township residents who said [...]
