Chimpanzees Take Control Of The Cameras For BBC Documentary

2010-01-26T05:31:58Z

EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND - JANUARY 26: A chimpanzee in the Budongo Trail at Edinburgh Zoo holds a chimp proof camera on January 26, 2010 in Edinburgh, Scotland. The 11 chimps at the zoo are being featured in a BBC Natural Worl Documentry on January 27....

Time running out for orangutans: conservationists

2010-02-23T13:07:32Z

<div><p>The world has less than 20 years left to save the orangutan, according to conservationists who predict the charismatic red ape will become extinct if no action is taken to protect its jungle habitat.</p><p>There are thought to be 50-60,000 orangutans still living in the wild in Malaysia and Indonesia, but deforestation and the expansion...

rumble in the concrete jungle

2009-12-08T18:31:15Z

Simon Curtis The Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA) host an evening dedicated to awareness and collaboration for Uganda's Gorilla population - Arrivals Culver City, California - 07.12.09

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Hepatitis C drug fights virus in new way

2010-02-23T21:16:18Z

<div><p>CHICAGO (Reuters) - A drug that targets hepatitis C in an entirely new way was highly effective at suppressing the virus in chimpanzees and kept working for several weeks after the treatment stopped, U.S. researchers said on Thursday.</p><p>The hope is that the drug -- made by Danish company

Taronga Zoo's Chimpanzees Move To New Home

2009-12-01T16:45:33Z

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - DECEMBER 02: A Chimpanzee eats a slice of watermelon in it's new home at Taronga Zoo on December 2, 2009 in Sydney, Australia. 19 chimpanzees have been relocated to the Orang-utan enclosure. (Photo by Cameron Spencer/Getty Images)

Borneo island, said three orangutans had coin-sized transmitters implanted in their necks in September.</p><p>"...

Orangutans struggle to survive as palm oil booms

2010-02-24T15:53:18Z

<div><p>Cinta, a baby orangutan found lost and alone in a vast Borneo palm oil plantation, now clings to a tree at a sanctuary for the great apes, staring intently at dozens of tourists.</p><p>She is one of the casualties of the boom in palm oil -- used extensively for biofuel and processed food like margarine -- which has seen swathes of jungle felled in Borneo, an island split between Reuters) - The skeleton of an early human who lived 4.4 million years ago shows that humans did not evolve from chimpanzee-like ancestors, researchers reported on Thursday.</p><p>Instead, the missing link -- the common ancestor of both humans and modern apes -- was different from both, and apes have evolved just as much as humans have from that common ance...

Hominid skeleton sheds light on human origins

2010-02-25T00:04:57Z

<div><p>A 4.4 million year old skeleton of a female "ground ape" shows signs of the first stage of human evolution better than anything seen to date, according to research out Thursday in the journal Science.</p><p>The fragile remains of the small creature, first discovered in 1992 in Ethiopia's Afar region and determined to be a new specie...

Oldest hominid skeleton sheds light on human origins

2010-02-25T00:05:11Z

Gorilla King Titus dies in Rwanda

2010-02-25T07:07:03Z

<div><p>Titus the Gorilla King, who became the world's most famous mountain gorilla after starring in Dian Fossey's "Gorillas in the Mist" and a BBC documentary, has died in Rwanda at the ripe old age of 35.</p&...

Yawning toons make an ape gape

2010-02-25T10:12:44Z

<div><p>Computer animations of yawning chimpanzees provoke the same irresistible grins in real chimps, according to an unusual study released Wednesday.</p><p>"Contagious yawning" is well known among humans, and earlier studies have shown that chimps are not immune to its suggestive influence either.</p><p>But the new research is the first to show that images seen on a monitor can provoke teeth-baring yawns in no...

Chimps evacuating from LA fire tried to escape

2010-02-25T13:01:54Z

<div id="subtitle">2 chimps evacuating from wildfire recaptured after escaping from temporary shelter at LA zoo</div><div><p>Two chimpanzees that were evacuated from an animal sanctuary threatened by wildfire have been recaptured after they escaped from their crates while being unloaded at the Los Angeles Zoo.</p><p>Zoo spokesman US study.</p><p>The origins of mosquito-carried malaria has long been unclear, and has lead scientists to come up with several inconclusive theories.</p><p>Researchers knew that chimpanzees carry a parasite -- Plasmodium r...

Scientists find HIV's 'missing link' in ill chimps

2010-02-26T06:08:58Z

<div id="subtitle">'Missing link' seen in primate form of AIDS virus killing chimps; other apes unharmed</div><div><p>Scientists believe they have found a "missing link" in the evolution of the virus that causes AIDS. It bridges the gap between the infection that does no harm to most monkeys and the one that kills millions of people. That link is a virus that is killing chimpanzees in the wild at a disturbingly high rate, according to a stu...

Chimps die from AIDS-like disease after viral infection

2010-02-26T06:09:37Z

<div><p>Chimpanzees infected with the ape version of HIV can die of an AIDS-like disease, a finding that challenges conventional beliefs that chimps are immune to the virus, according to a study released on Wednesday.</p><p>Simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV), a pathogen circulating in African animal primates, is believed by many scientists to be a precursor of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) that causes AIDS.</p>&l...

Chimps' break for lunch forces public from UK zoo

2010-02-26T12:57:09Z

<div><p>LONDON (Reuters) - Chester Zoo, Britain's most popular wildlife attraction, was evacuated on Sunday after 30 chimpanzees escaped from their enclosure.</p><p>The animals made their escape at lunchtime and found their way into a keeper area where their food ...

Malaysia rescues smuggled baby orangutans: report

2010-02-26T14:59:56Z

<div><p>Malaysian wildlife authorities have rescued three baby orangutans believed to have been smuggled into the country, following raids on a zoo and an ostrich breeder, a report said Tuesday.</p><p>The three young apes were among a smuggled group of five, and a search is under way for the remaining two, Department of Wildlife and...

Sprint Nextel agrees to stop using apes in ads

2010-02-26T16:39:06Z

<div id="subtitle">Sprint Nextel agrees to stop using apes in ads after complaint from PETA, Anjelica Huston</div><div><p>Sprint Nextel Corp. said Thursday it will no longer use great apes in its advertisements after animal rights activists complained about an...

Monkey business hard to sustain in slump, Goodall says

2010-02-27T00:27:08Z

<div><p>SINGAPORE (Reuters Life!) - Chimpanzees, long under threat from humans encroaching on their habitat, are now facing another risk caused by that same member of the Great Ape family: the global economic crisis, says primatologist Jane Goodall.</p><p>Funding to the

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