This National Geographic video is called Bonobo Chimps: Girls Rule!
About apes: Massive New Rainforest Reserve Established in the Democratic Republic of Congo to protect the Bonobo.
And, also in Congo, Chimpanzee conservation in The Ruwenzori Mountains.
Also in Congo: Ten million trees planted in crucial mountain gorilla habitat. Gorilla evolution: here.
Gorillas Mate Face-to-Face in First Photos: here.
Intelligence of humans vs. chimpanzees: here.
Poaching and deforestation threaten Ugandan chimps: here.
London, March 4 [2009]: Scientists have discovered that chimpanzees can fashion plant stems into tools that resemble fishing rods, in order to scoop termites out of their nests: here.
Congo wildlife officers in prison after government crackdown on illegal destruction of gorilla habitat: here.
A chimpanzees spatial memory is so precise that it can find a single tree among thousands in a forest: here.
Humans lose to chimps in number memory
game:
Young chimps have an “extraordinary” ability to
remember numerals, scientists report.
http://www.world-science.net/othernews/071203_chimp-memory.htm
Comment by Administrator — December 7, 2007 @ 10:26 am
“Peacenik” chimps not always so nice:
A study on bonobo hunting habits challenges
traditional ideas of how aggression originates.
http://www.world-science.net/othernews/081014_bonobo
Comment by Administrator — October 14, 2008 @ 7:58 pm
Dear Friend of eNature,
Nonhuman primates deserve better
By now you surely have heard about the gruesome double tragedy in Connecticut involving Travis the chimpanzee.
This “pet” chimpanzee mauled a 55-year-old woman before being fatally gunned down by local police — at the frantic urging of his “owner”! The dramatic and terribly disturbing 911 call paints a gruesome picture of what happens when powerful wild animals attack.
Born Free USA has campaigned for years against the keeping of wild animals as pets, specifically nonhuman primates. Now, in just one minute, you could possibly prevent another violent tragedy involving a wild animal from happening.
On Tuesday, the United States House of Representatives passed the Captive Primate Safety Act (H.R. 80) by an overwhelming vote of 323-95. This commonsense legislation, championed by Born Free USA, prohibits the import, export, and interstate trade in nonhuman primates if they are going to be kept as pets.
Now, you can play a vital role in helping us ensure swift action in the US Senate so the bill becomes the law of the land this year! Please send both of your US Senators a simple email in support of the bill. We’ve provided a draft, which you can send as is or edit as you wish.
Keep wildlife in the wild
Just because you put clothes on a chimpanzee doesn’t make him any less wild and potentially dangerous. Keeping primates as pets involves enormous suffering and threats to human safety. These innocent animals may be confined in small cages or have their teeth or fingernails removed. Animals shouldn’t be mutilated in the name of companionship. Furthermore, nonhuman primates can carry harmful diseases such as Ebola, tuberculosis, and herpes-B.
It will take you just one minute to send a letter to your United States Senators urging them to pass the Captive Primate Safety Act right away. Please don’t delay — you can help prevent the next painful and unnecessary tragedy involving a nonhuman primate from ever happening!
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Will Travers
Chief Executive Officer
Born Free USA
Comment by Administrator — February 26, 2009 @ 11:53 pm
Rock-hurling zoo chimp stocked ammo in
advance: study:
Researchers have found what they call some of the
first clear evidence that a non-human animal can
spontaneously plan ahead.
http://www.world-science.net/othernews/090310_chimp
Comment by Administrator — March 12, 2009 @ 12:24 am