Karin has dedicated her life to the conservation of primates and has successfully rehabilitated and released 35 monkeys, and is currently caring for 6 orphaned baby baboons.
Instead of a gorgeous shawl, we now had a smiling monkey figure and something that, undoubtedly, once made erotic female monkey figurines everywhere quite happy.
What those "ordinary citizens" protesting the unnecessary Keystone XL pipeline did in Washington is what I wish we all were willing to do more often: Remind our government that it is in the service of the people -- and not big business.
Returning from Rise of the Planet of the Apes, I was sleepless and distraught at the effect the film had upon me. What captured my attention was so many memories of the 11 years in which I had two squirrel monkeys as pets.
On my Animal Oddities blog I often report on animals that show up in odd places. Here, for your pleasure, are my top ten "animals in odd places" stories.
In Costa Rica I got a real sense of what the planet may have been like before humans destructive behavior.
By focusing in on one orangutan named Green, filmmaker Patrick Rouxel concentrates our compassion and concern. Green is ill and injured after her lush rainforest home is flattened.
Fairness is the basis of the social contract. As citizens we expect that when we contribute our fair share we should receive our just reward. When s...
According to a new study, women order smaller meals if eating with a man than if dining with female friends. Women responded: "Obviously. What? No, I'm not crying. Get out of my office!"
When one of a team of scientists jokingly suggested dressing their monkeys up in tight-pants, like rock stars, most of his colleagues chalked it up to his "clown college" Harvard background.
Did the New York Post simply screw up, fail to take into account possible perceptions, and then get clubbed by a few shrewd competitors who saw a good opportunity? We'll never know.
Hit his big white Right Winger pocketbook right through his pants. Dump all of NewsCorp's properties and teach these extremist bigots a lesson in a way they'll remember.
There is a term in used in yoga teachings, originating from Buddhism, called Monkey Mind. When a person jumps from thought to thought like a monkey j...
The scientists and researchers who claim to be the savior of human kind are also the brutal and savage killers of animal species.