Pictured in this post is Conchita, a three-week-old white-naped mangabey monkey who is being hand-reared at London Zoo. Her mother is recovering from a cesarean. Photos were found from this news piece.
Entries Tagged as ‘Photo’
April 29, 2008
Orangutan from Borneo photographed using a spear tool to fish
Tool use among orangutans was first documented by Carel van Schaik. In 1994, Carel observed orangutans developing tools to help themselves eat, while conducting field work in Gunung Leuser National Park, in the northwest Sumatra.
Specifically the orangutans [...]
September 13, 2007
Baby Macaque and White Pigeon make friends
With all the depressing news of gorillas being slaughtered and primates being brought closer to extinction, I wanted to share this photograph of an abandoned baby macaque, who was taken in by an animal hospital in Goangdong Province, China. He was very lonely until he made friends with a white pigeon.
In many cultures, the white [...]
June 25, 2007
Dutch Biologist Receives 14-year Sentence
One of Time Magazine’s “Hero’s for the Planet 2000“, known for discovering new species (Callicebus bernhardi, Callicebus stephennashi, etc.) and focusing his attentions on protecting the rainforest has been convicted of failing to apply for a permit on behalf of the monkey refuge in his Brazilian home. It seems that without the permit (or license) [...]
June 12, 2007
Ndakasi’s Dead Mother, Rubiga
Yesterday I shared with you news about the recently orphaned baby gorilla, Ndakasi. In today’s post I will show you a graphic photo of his dead mother. Her name is Rubiga, and she was shot in the back of the head. A autopsy confirmed this, removing two bullets from the back of her head.
I share [...]
May 11, 2007
Japan’s odd couple - A primate-rodent friendship between Capybaras & Squirrel Monkeys
One of our more popular posts of all time has been the photos of the tiger and orangutan friendships I shared with you several months back.
To rekindle that interest, I’ve come accross a Reuters news piece on a similar friendship… but this time it is between squirrel monkeys and giant South American rodents called capybaras. And it [...]
May 2, 2007
A new mouse lemur: Goodman’s mouse lemur, Microcebus lehilahytsara
Since mouse lemurs made our blog a couple times last year, and that one of our readers recently commented on how she was doing a report on them, I figured you may want to see photo of a newly described species of mouse lemur: Goodman’s mouse lemur, Microcebus lehilahytsara.
Check out a photo of one [...]
April 16, 2007
Photo of Hamadryas Baboons in mid-grooming
When I first saw this beautiful image of baboons, I thought it was two male baboons mourning a dead comrade. But after reading the caption, boy was I ever wrong. What’s happening here is grooming. I wanted to share this photo with you because grooming is one of the most common behavioral features between all [...]
April 13, 2007
Atlanta Zoo’s Orangutans play video games!
Well hot dang, I was reading Omni Brain the other day, where Steve broke the news that Atlanta Zoo’s orangutans play video games. But I didn’t post about it, not because it ain’t primatology related news, but because there wasn’t a video to support it. In my mind, if I can’t see it, it is [...]
April 13, 2007
Photos from Cheeta the Chimp’s 75th Birthday
Photos from Cheeta the chimpanzee’s 75th birthday are making the rounds on the internet. So far Digg and Neatorama put up some links to the photos. I’ve rounded some of the more adorable ones, from here, but if anyone has others to share, please link us up.
