Orangutan Babies And Tiger Cubs Become Play Pals: “
A pair of month-old Sumatran tiger twins have become playmates with young orangutans and now share a room at the Taman Safari Zoo in Indonesia:
(Via PBH2, Video Before It’s Viral.)
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Monkeys Show Signs Of Advanced Memory Powers: “
Monkey see, monkey recall – at least for a couple minutes.
Ben Basile of Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, placed five rhesus monkeys in front of a touchscreen that briefly showed a blue square and two red ones. After an interval of up to 2 minutes, the blue square [...]
Indonesia: “Monkey Mask Show” (big photo gallery): “
A trained monkey wears a mask, above, and looks at himself in a mirror, below during a Topeng Monyet (Monkey Mask) show, a traditional Indonesian street performance, in east Jakarta April 25, 2011. Karmini, a monkey trainer who has four trained monkeys, said his group can collect $10 [...]
Woman Goes To Court With A Monkey In Her Bra: “
Babies need constant attention – especially when they’re monkeys. That’s probably why a Virginia woman went to court with an infant monkey stuffed in her bra.
The woman showed up for a hearing Thursday at a rural Virginia courthouse with the marmoset concealed in her mammaries.
The [...]
Monkeys race in tiny cars: “
Via Simple Dreams.
Monkey jockeys riding dogs
Whiplash the Cowboy Monkey
Monkey rides a goat
Little monkeys ride tiny motorcycles
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(Via Boing Boing.)
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Masked monkeys wait on tables at Japanese restaurant: “
At the Kayabuki restaurant in Utsunomiya, Japan, there are two costumed monkeys who are employed as waiters. Yacchan and Fukuchan wear wigs and masks and wait on tables in a restaurant that reviewers widely discount as having bad food and bad service (from the humans, not the [...]
VIDEO: Gorilla learns to walk like humans: “A 485-pound Silverback gorilla in an English zoo has learned to walk just like humans. The animals usually walk on all four limbs, resting on their knuckles.”
(Via WTOP / Monkey News / Monkey Stories.)
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Astrochimp ad astra: 50th anniversary of Ham the chimpanzee’s space flight: “
Ben Cosgrove of LIFE Magazine says,
Today, January 31, is the 50th anniversary of Ham the Astrochimp’s 1961 space flight — the first time any hominid went into space — and this morning we published a gallery of rare and never-seen photos featuring Ham before [...]
Bird expert: Don’t worry too much about the Deadbirdpocalypse: “
Ive been holding back on writing anything here about the spate of reports concerning mass bird die-offs in the United States and around the world. Frankly, this story reeks, to me, of the sort of ‘unexplained phenomenon’ that later turns out—with much less fanfare—to have an [...]
