Chimpanzees

USDA Cites Problems At Private Zoo After Chimpanzees Escape

Posted 05.21.2012

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WASHINGTON -- When six chimpanzees escaped from a private Mechanicsville, Va., zoo in July 2010, the local animal control chief, Kevin M. Kilgore, ass...

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Study Suggests Chimps Have Culture, Like Humans

Posted 05.10.2012

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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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Bob Barker Makes Big Donation To Chimp Sanctuary

AP | JANET McCONNAUGHEY | Posted 05.03.2012

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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Retired game-show host and animal rights advocate Bob Barker is opening a new area for five HIV-infected chimpanzees at a sanctua...

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How To Chase Chimps Through A Rainforest With A Camera And Face Mask

HuffingtonPost.com | Joanna Zelman | Posted 04.20.2012

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Chasing chimpanzees up to 15 miles per day through a dense African forest, fighting thick vines and torrential rain, and donning a face mask and big r...

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Apes' Cozy Nests Yield Clues About Human Evolution

Posted 04.17.2012

Read More: Orangutans Indonesia, Video, Chimps, Animal Psychology, Sleep Behavior, Orangutans, Animal Behavior, Chimpanzees, Apes, Animals, Great Apes, Sleep, Science News

By: Jennifer Welsh, LiveScience Staff Writer Published: 04/16/2012 03:04 PM EDT on LiveScience When they are ready to snuggle up at the tops of tr...

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'Dolphin Mafia' Gangs Rule Cetacean Society

| Virginia Morell | Posted 03.31.2012

Read More: Video, Animal Social, Strange-Animal-Behavior, Dolphins, Australia, Animal Psychology, Primatology, Dolphin Mafia, Animal Behavior, Mafia, Chimpanzees, Marine Biology, Shark Bay, Dolphin, Science News

The male dolphins of Shark Bay, Australia, are known to marine biologists for their messy social entanglements. Their relationships with each other ar...

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Jane Goodall: Chimps Need Our Help 'Desperately'

HuffingtonPost.com | Joanna Zelman | Posted 03.20.2012

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Dr. Jane Goodall hates apathy. The world-renowned chimp expert is the first to acknowledge that saving threatened species is an uphill battle, but...

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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

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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Chimps Knocked Up Despite Vasectomies

AP | By JANET McCONNAUGHEY | Posted 02.27.2012

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NEW ORLEANS -- After two unexpected pregnancies at a sanctuary for retired research chimpanzees, other females have been put on birth control and the ...

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WATCH: The Inside World Of Filming 'Chimpanzee'

The Huffington Post | James Gerken | Posted 02.28.2012

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An upcoming documentary from Disney will give audiences the chance to not only see chimpanzees, but also save them. "Chimpanzee," opening in theate...

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WATCH: Celebs Support Ban On Chimpanzee Testing

Posted 02.21.2012

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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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PHOTOS: Adorable Chimp REALLY Loves Valentine's Gift

Posted 02.14.2012

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"Life is like a box of chocolates or fruits and peanut butter," says Zoo Miami. "You never know what you’re gonna get." But on Valentine's Day, ...

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

| Posted 02.14.2012

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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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Scientists Discover Fascinating Human-Like Trait In Chimps

Posted 02.09.2012

Read More: Video, Chimps, Tools, Chimpanzee Experiment, Unique Human Traits, Altruism, Animal Behavior, Psychology, Chimpanzees, Theory of Mind, Science News

By: Charles Choi, LiveScience Contributor Published: 02/06/2012 03:06 PM EST on LiveScience Chimps know what tools others need to get work done ...

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New Documentary Will Help Save Chimpanzee Habitats

Posted 01.19.2012

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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: Chimp Research: The Beginning Of The End?

HuffingtonPost.com | Cara Santa Maria | Posted 01.09.2012

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Other than the West African nation of Gabon, we are the only country in the entire world that still experiments on chimps.

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Bonobo Cooks His Own Food

The Huffington Post | Laura Hibbard | Posted 12.31.2011

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Anyone who's ever seen "Planet of the Apes" or the recent "Rise of the Planet of the Apes," knows this is exactly how it starts. And it's all downhill...

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One Small Step for Chimpanzeekind

Marc Bekoff | Posted 02.19.2012

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Chimpanzees have been much in the news recently. There's been a lot of concern about their use in invasive biomedical research and deceptive ploys by ...

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Chimps Share Uncommon Condition With Humans

| Posted 12.10.2011

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By Ewen Callaway and Nature magazine (Click here for original article.) Chimpanzees meld sounds and colours, associating light objects with high t...

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WATCH: Funniest Viral Videos Of The Day

Posted 12.10.2011

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Today's episode of The Urlesque Show has everything you need to get you throw a slow, Columbus Day Monday if you're at work. And all in under a minute...

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Tearjerker Alert: Lab Chimps See Sunlight For the First Time

The Huffington Post | Laura Hibbard | Posted 11.04.2011

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If this doesn't make your eyes mist up a little, there might be something wrong with you. RTL, a German television station, provided this tearjerk...

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6 Things You Won't Believe Animals Do Just Like Us

www.cracked.com | David Moye | Posted 10.28.2011

Read More: Monkey Prostitution, Chimpanzees, Animals in the News, Parrot Names, Weird Animals, Whale Songs, Video, Weird News News

Being a human is a pretty sweet gig, all things considered. We've got opposable thumbs so dexterous they could start their own Cirque du Soleil tro...

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"Are We Not (as Good as) Men?"

Athena Andreadis, Ph.D. | Posted 08.23.2011

Read More: Brain Augmentation, Animal Uplift, Reboot, Language, Environmental Stewardship, Origin Story, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Chimpanzees, Science Fiction, Culture News

When franchises get stale, Hollywood does reboots -- invariably a prequel that tells an origin story retrofitted to segue into already-made sequels. In The Rise of the Planet of the Apes, we get the origin story with nods to the original.

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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

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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How a Wild Chimpanzee Made Me a Better Father

John Crocker | Posted 10.02.2011

Read More: Chimpanzees, Parenting, Parents-Dads, Parents News

My time with Babu had taught me a lot about responding to the needs of a young primate. I provided reassurance for him in our travels by letting him cling to me -- and he, in turn, provided me with my first feeling of fatherhood.

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