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, [...]
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 [...]
'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 [...]
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 [...]
Deep in the Congolese jungle is a band of apes that, according to local legend, kill lions, catch fish and even howl at the moon. Local hunters speak of massive creatures that seem to be some sort of hybrid between a chimp and a gorilla.
Will this be the death of Apple OSX Lion? Will [...]
Chimps hunt monkey prey close to local extinction – New Scientist: “
The chimp and red colobus populations in Kibale but did not test its statistical significance. Estimating changes in chimpanzee populations is more difficult due to the tendency of chimps to spend time on their own, says Struhsaker, but his team
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(Via Dorey News.)
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