Charlie Rose interviewed Emmanuel de Merode of WildLifeDirect, Brent Stirton and Godefroid Wambale four days ago — three men who know about the massacre of gorillas that happened last year in Virunga National Park. Their interview covers their account of the day where six gorillas were killed.
I’m very pleased with this interview, and even more [...]
I just posted about JJ’s novel tool use, and I thought you may wanna see him actually fishing for ants. The authors of the paper provided videos of JJ using his tools. I’ve uploaded it to YouTube for your viewing pleasure.
Last month Ayumu and five other chimpanzees made the news because of their outstanding cognitive performance. They even beat out college students in their tests. The results of the study was reported in Current Biology, “Working memory of numerals in chimpanzees.”
If you don’t believe me check out the video of Ayumu rocking the test:
Very impressive [...]
The following video is a bit dated, it’s from 2004… but still I’m sharing it with you because it is very informative and rare. The video is of Susan Savage-Rumbaugh’s TED talk, in which she presents human traits and behaviors in bonobos, specifically the bonobo that made her famous, Kanzi.
Gorilla Protection links us up to an excellent report done by Al Jazeera on the threats to mountain gorillas. It’s a bit long, but it is really well done. Before you check out the video, another dead gorilla has been found.
A PLoS One study of chimpanzees at Bossou in Republic of Guinea, shows that the male chimpanzees raid farms and orchards for fruit that they steal and bring back to the females. In exchange, the males shared their fruity booty with the females in a food-for-sex trade.
The photo to your right shows one of the [...]
Pattty, one of our regulars, emailed me with this hilarious advertisement involving a man dressed up as a gorilla and rocking out to Phil Collins. I’m pretty sure it will liven up your Monday blues.
Leaving stoic stereotypes behind, this silverback shows his playful side with a caregiver. Having no idea what the TV show is about, I find it best to watch the video without any sound.
Thanks to the Tonia at the Gorilla Keepers Forum for pointing it out!
The amount of evidence that is out there in support of chimpanzee culture is rather overwhelming if you ask me. Most primatologists will agree that these socially, intellectually, and emotionally complex great apes have unique behaviors and learning systems that begin to mimic our own cultures and social structures.
In a new Current Biology research paper, [...]
From time to time I like to put up a funny primate related piece of media to break the monotony that sometimes is ‘hardcore’ science. Considering, we just had a row of such material, here’s a video that you may enjoy. I for one got a good chuckle out of it.
Though sometimes the animals behind [...]
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