Primates

Apes Have People-Like Personalities? What Scientists Now Say

The Huffington Post | Jacqueline Howard | Posted 05.29.2012

Read More: Video, Humans, Primates, Behavior, Animal Behavior, Apes, Chimpanzees, Personalities, Animals, Great Apes, Personality Traits, Anthropomorphism, Chimpanzee Behavior, Science News

What makes you you? Psychologists say human personalities include what they call "the big five” traits: agreeableness, openness to experience, e...

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PHOTOS: Sneezing Monkey And Other Strange New Species

Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: Spongebob Mushroom, Weird Animal, Sneezing Monkey Species, Weird Species, Animals, Sneezing Primate, Video, Primates, Sneezing Monkey, Devil Worm, Rhinopithecusstrykeri, Endangered Species, Halicephalobus Mephisto, New Species, Dianiacactiformis, Green News

By Wynne Parry, LiveScience Senior Writer: The realm of living things known to science gained some fascinating new members in the past year. These ...

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PHOTOS: Gorilla Overload!

Posted 05.20.2012

Read More: Video, Primates, Endangered Animal Photos, Animal-Photos-of-the-Week, Gorilla Photos, Gorillas, Endangered Species, Endangered Gorillas, Animals, Slideexpand, Gorilla Pictures, Endangered Primates, Endangered Animals, Green News

Whether you enjoy pictures of mighty adult apes or their tiny and adorable offspring, it is most important to recognize that gorillas are endangered. ...

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What Primates Teach Us About 'Extreme' Breast-Feeding

| Eric Michael Johnson | Posted 05.16.2012

Read More: Anthropology, Weaning, Average Weaning Age, Video, Primates, Breastfeeding, Children, Weaning Age, Parents, Science News

My son will be three-years-old next month and is still breastfeeding. In other words, he is a typical primate. However, when I tell most people about ...

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Study Suggests Chimps Have Culture, Like Humans

Posted 05.10.2012

Read More: Chimpanzee Intelligence, Video, Chimps, Chimpanzee Culture, Primates, Chimp Studies, Tai National Park, Chimp Tools, Chimp Intelligence, Chimpanzee Studies, Chimpanzees, Animals, Chimpanzee Skills, Green News

By Jennifer Welsh, LiveScience Staff Writer: Like humans who might use a different slang term for "that's cool" or have distinct fashion sense, adj...

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Orangutans Using IPADS

AP | DAVID FISCHER | Posted 05.09.2012

Read More: Zoo Ipads, Zoos, Monkeys Use Ipads, Orangutans, Animals, Ipad, Video, Animals and Technology, Miami Zoo, Primates, Orangutans Use Ipads, Apes, Orangutans Use Ipads to Communicate, Jungle Island, Zoo Animals, Apes Use Ipads, Miami News

MIAMI — The 8-year-old twins love their iPad. They draw, play games and expand their vocabulary. Their family's teenagers also like the hand-hel...

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On Mother's Day: Caring for All Creatures

Brenda Peterson | Posted 05.06.2012

Read More: Pets, Primates, Green News, Mother's Day, Environment, Conservation, Animals, Whales, Adoption, Wildlife, Beluga Whales, Green News
Brenda Peterson

When humans offer allomothering to other species, it often requires remarkable adaptability and advocacy. It's natural to love one's birth child. But what if the creature you are trying to mother is covered with hair, or bites you, or claws you, or has a grasping tail?

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The Case for Non-Human Personhood Rights

Eric Michael Johnson | Posted 05.12.2012

Read More: 14th Amendment, Killer Whales, Dolphins, Animal Rights, Primates, Cetaceans, Personhood, Corporate Personhood, Chimpanzees, Whales, Great Apes, 1st Amendment, Science News
Eric Michael Johnson

This is not as radical an idea as it may sound. The law is fully capable of making and unmaking "persons" in the strictly legal sense. But that would be unlikely to happen with whales, dolphins, or even great apes.

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Lonely Gorilla Gets A Surprising New Friend

AP | Posted 05.09.2012

Read More: Video, Primates, Gorillas, Animal Friendships, Weird Animal Friendships, Gorilla Bunny Friends, Rabbits, Animals, Samantha Erie Zoo Gorilla, Animal Friends, Samantha Gorilla Erie Zoo, Ap, Samantha Gorilla, Green News

ERIE, Pa. (AP) — An elderly gorilla that lives at a Pennsylvania zoo has a new companion: a bunny named Panda. The Erie Zoo's gorilla...

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WATCH: Celebs Support Ban On Chimpanzee Testing

Posted 02.21.2012

Read More: Great Ape Protection Act, Laboratory Animals, Video, Primate Testing, Animal Rights, Primates, Animal Testing, Lab Chimps, Chimpanzees, Apes, Animals, Green News

From Mother Nature Network's Michael d'Estries: Just over a year ago, Woody Harrelson sent a letter on behalf of PETA urging officials at the Natio...

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WATCH: Sneaky Gorillas Seize Escape Opportunity

Posted 03.01.2012

Read More: Zoo Animal Escapes, Gorilla Escape, Video, Animal Escapes, Primates, Gorillas, Kansas City Zoo Gorillas, Animals, Kansas City Zoo Gorilla Escape, Green News

A recent escape at the Kansas City Zoo may have shocked some visitors, but they were never in harm's way. Half-brothers Mbundi and Ntondo -- two we...

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Baby Gorilla Arrives At Pittsburgh Zoo

AP | Posted 04.18.2012

Read More: Video, PIttsburgh Zoo, Pittsburgh Zoo Gorilla Born, Primates, Gorillas, Pittsburgh Zoo Baby Gorilla, Apes, Baby Animals, Baby Gorilla, Animals, Ap, Green News

PITTSBURGH (AP) — The Pittsburgh Zoo has a new baby gorilla in its midst. Zoo officials say 15-year-old Moka gave birth last week aft...

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You Can Count On A Chimp's Help ... But Only If You Ask Nicely

| Posted 02.14.2012

Read More: Video, Chimpanzee Altruism, Chimpanzees, Primates, Animals, Chimpanzee Theory of Mind, Monkeys, Chimpanzee Behavior, Green News

By Jason G. Goldman (Click here for original article.) Chimpanzees have a bad reputation. Maybe it's because humans have a thing about wanting to ...

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WATCH: Orangutans Eat Slow Loris

Posted 02.07.2012

Read More: Video, Sumatran Orangutan, Primates, Orangutans, Orangutans Eat Slow Lorises, Endangered Species, Orangutans Carnivorous, Animals, Slow Loris, Green News

Sumatran Orangutans are primarily vegetarians, but more evidence has emerged that some of the primates actually have a taste for meat. A female nam...

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Why Humans Don't Have Colorful Faces

Posted 01.12.2012

Read More: Video, Evolution Study, Human Evolution, Primates, Biology, Ucla, Evolution, Primate Study, Science News

A new evolutionary study on face color in primates may tell us more about ourselves and why humans' faces are so dull compared to the bright colors on...

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New Documentary Will Help Save Chimpanzee Habitats

Posted 01.19.2012

Read More: Jane Goodall Institute, Chimpanzee Disney Donation, Jane Goodall, Video, Chimps, Entertainment, Primates, Disneynature, Chimpanzee Disney Documentary, Chimpanzees, Animals, Chimpanzee Disneynature Film, Movies, Green News

From Michael d'Estries and Mother Nature Network: Continuing a tradition of giving that goes back several years, Disneynature has announced that th...

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WATCH: Cute "Chimeric" Monkeys Carry Strange DNA

Posted 01.07.2012

Read More: Chimeric Monkeys, Embryos, Video, Primates, Rhesus Monkeys, Shoukhrat Mitalipov, Stem Cell Research, Oregon National Primate Research Centre, Embryonic Stem Cells, Embryonic Stem Cell Research, Science News

Cute and cuddly, little Hex, Roku, and Chimero look just like any other rhesus monkeys. But they carry distinctive DNA - a mashup of genes from severa...

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WATCH: Talented Monkey Is Next Big Thing In Abstract Art

Posted 12.12.2011

Read More: Andy Warhol, Monkey Artist, Jackson Pollock, Video, Abstract Art, Primates, Pop Art, Weird Art, Pockets Warhol, Joan Mitchell, Monkeys, Odd Art, Arts News

Many great artist personas get 'discovered' from their eccentric appearances before they even make any great art. Such was the case with Pockets Warho...

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WATCH: Only 23 Hainan Gibbons Left In The Wild

| Posted 12.06.2011

Read More: Hainan Gibbons, Video, Hainan Gibbons China, Primates, Hainan Gibbons Endangered, Gibbons, China Deforestation, Deforestation, Hainan Gibbons Extinct, Green News

By John R. Platt (Click here for original article.) The world's final 23 Hainan black-crested gibbons (Nomascus hainanus) are making what may be t...

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Activist Says Indonesian Zoo Lets Orangutans Smoke

AP | Posted 11.16.2011

Read More: Video, Indonesia, Cigarettes, Smoking, Primates, Smoking-Orangutan, Zoo, Orangutans, Animals, Animals Smoking, Orangatangs Smoking, Orangutan Smoking, Green News

INDONESIA, Jakarta -- A wildlife activist says that zoo officials in Indonesia are taking no steps to stop orangutans from smoking cigarettes, unlike ...

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Rise of the Kindness of the Apes

Eric Michael Johnson | Posted 10.10.2011

Read More: Primates, Cooperation, Biology, Altruism, Science, Evolution, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Chimpanzees, Planet of the Apes, Animals, Media News
Eric Michael Johnson

Caesar and his fellow simians in the blockbuster film may have had a few canines to grind, but new research reveals that chimpanzees are more interested in sharing a meal than starting a revolution.

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Scientists Find 20-Million-Year-Old Ape Skull

Posted 10.05.2011

Read More: Primates, Paleontology, Ape Fossil, Ugandapithecus Major, Uganda Fossil, Science, Uganda, Ape Skull, Ugandapithecus, Fossils, Video, Green News

A recent fossil discovery in East Africa may help shed light on the evolutionary history of primates in the region. Discovery News reports that a t...

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Biology Is Not Destiny in the Evolution of Sexual Coercion

Eric Michael Johnson | Posted 09.20.2011

Read More: Abortion, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Bonobos, Rape, Chimpanzee, Primates, American History, Biology, Colonial America, Sexual Harassment, Sexual Coercion, Science, Evolution, Feminism, Sexual Assault, Patriarchy, Women News
Eric Michael Johnson

Cross-posted at Scientific American. Warning: content may be triggering for survivors of sexual assault/abuse. Elizabeth Wilde's mouth was stuffed w...

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Primates as "Pets"? Not on Your Life

Will Travers | Posted 09.18.2011

Read More: Born Free Foundation, Travis the Chimp, Primate Pets, Chimpanzees, Primates, Will Travers, Born Free USA, Wildlife, Green News
Will Travers

Non-human primates are celebrated as our closest living relatives, but they are still wild animals. Whether acting out of instinct or intent, "pet" primates are capable of wreaking havoc on humans who pay the tragic price when things, inevitably, go wrong.

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Frans de Waal on Politics, Fairness, and Human Nature

Eric Michael Johnson | Posted 09.13.2011

Read More: CEO Pay, Wall Street Crisis, Wall Street, Primates, Chimpanzee, Cooperation, Human Evolution, Charles Darwin, Frans De Waal, Economic Crisis, Jimmy Carter, Evolution, Newt Gingrich, Social Darwinism, Fairness, Politics News
Eric Michael Johnson

The theme of Frans de Waal's newest book is the culmination of his work to date and presents a synthesis of the factors that account for cooperative behavior in the natural world.

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