Do Chimpanzees Understand Death?
Maggie Koerth-Baker, senior writer for Boing Boing, recently wrote an article in the New York Times reviewing the behaviors …
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The Possibility Of Full Protection For Chimpanzees Under The Endangered Species Act
For as long as I’ve been alive, wild chimpanzees have been “endangered” under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). Captive-born chimps, …
Monkey Midwifery
A paper published in the journal Behavioural Processes describes a rare phenomenon, midwifery behavior among black snub-nosed monkeys in Yunnan, …
The Completed Bonobo Genome
The bonobo genome is sequenced. The letter reporting was recently published in Nature, and is available openly under the title, “The bonobo …
Gorilla Baby Talk
Eva Maria Luëf and Katja Liebal of the Free University of Berlin have published in the American Journal of Primatology …
Foresight & Innovation in a Devious Chimpanzee
A chimpanzee in at the Furuvik Zoo in Sweden is documented to store various projectile object to be thrown at …
Maternal Infanticide and Cannibalism in Moustached Tamarin
Infanticide and cannibalism are two extreme behaviors seen in primates. Though extreme, the persistence of these behaviors in primates suggest …
New adapiform species discovered in West Texas
Do you know that fossil primates once roam North America? I didn’t know either so this discovery was a shock …
Coquerel’s Sifaka Born at the Maryland Zoo in Baltimore
On April 13, 2011, The Maryland Zoo in Baltimore announced the birth of an Endangered Coquerel’s Sifaka (Propithecus coquereli) making …
The Semantics of Vervet Monkey Alarm Calls: Part II – The Experiment
Last week, I blogged about the semantics of alarm calls in vervet monkeys. This post will focus solely on the …
