“lovely gentle animals”

New home for two rescued lemurs in Northern Ireland.

“staked to the ground”

Kalispell Police Department reports a large, inflatable gorilla was stolen Friday.

“import permits, health certificates and laboratory reports”

Insufficiently amused by the glittering, if delayed, world of Formula One motor racing, Richard Branson to populate his private island with dozens of ring-tailed lemurs.

“the first zoo to help an orangutan use a breast pump”

Two orangutan babies meet their public for the first time at Fresno's Chaffee Zoo.

Goodbye, Haloko

44-year-old female Western Lowland gorilla Haloko, the only wild-born gorilla at the National Zoo, euthanized yesterday, suffering effects of congestive heart failure.

“which means 'precious one' in Swahili”

Australians charmed by mother-daughter gorilla bonding by Kriba and Kipenzi at Taronga Zoo.

“Monkeys do need food to survive”

Plan to cull vervet monkeys around South Africa's Hartbeespoort Dam meets opposition.

Goodbye, Misha

One-year-old gorilla dies at Columbus Zoo and Aquarium.

“get the monkeys down”

Manitowoc County's Two Rivers Opera House, remembered as a place where performing monkeys would get loose and need caught.

“I have the right not to have a goat in the seat next to me”

Americans with Disabilities Act rules change, service monkeys hardest hit.

“a Canadian goose versus a monkey”

Spider monkeys fail in escape attempt from Utah's Hogle Zoo.

“They’ve both been pretty chill”

Dallas Zoo welcomes two new adolescent male lowland gorillas: B’wenzi and Juba.

“Sumatran Orangutan Conservation Programme”

Expert from Jersey's Durrell Wildlife Trust plans visit to Indonesia's Batu Mbelin orangutan quarantine centre to see twins born to two blind orangutans.

Insert your own disparaging comment

UK student to be caged, live like a gorilla, for 24 hours at Paignton Zoo.

“Carefully and with a sedative”

Gorillas given thorough physicals by jumpy vets at Brookfield Zoo.

“they're not monkeys”

Ever-hungry alligators at St. Augustine Alligator Farm and Zoological Park watch new lemur neighbors with interest.

“It was sore but it was worth it”

Outgoing 18-year-old UK girl bounces more than six miles on a "space hopper" balloon while thinking of gorillas.

Compare & contrast

Titi monkey vs. Amherst County Courthouse monkey

“worth an estimated $100”

Abilene TX theft of "fuzzy, brown gorilla suit" unrelated to Jane Goodall's imminent arrival, authorities say.

“primates can suffer from post-traumatic stress syndrome and Stockholm syndrome”

Story Book Farm Primate Sanctuary, Canada's only primate sanctuary.

“police have identified three juvenile suspects”

A small monkey was found dead at Frank Buck Zoo in Texas, following a break-in by vandals this weekend.

“scientists seek to treat all species humanely”

Without research chimpanzees, new cures don't get discovered.

“other monkeys in the troop have started to serve as baby sitters”

Illinois's Niabi Zoo celebrates February birth of a black and white Colobus monkey, Hank.

“adventure is in her blood”

National Geographic pauses from non-stop AGW for the swimsuit issue.

Costly kebabs

Chimpanzee meat, at over 20 pounds a kilogram, seized from market stalls in Britain.

"cardiac tamponade"

Necropsy findings released in January death of Hank the chimpanzee at Tennessee's Chattanooga Zoo.

Goodbye, Maki

16-year-old chimpanzee at North Carolina Zoo, mother of the first chimp born there, dies after anesthesia as part of treatment for an abscessed tooth.

“Kambiri”

Four-month-old gorilla at the Boston's Franklin Park Zoo is named. Kambiri means “allow me to join the family.”

“inflammation of the brain, fluid in the lungs and fibrosis in the heart”

Necropsy fails to find definitive reason for death, but gorilla Kimba of South Carolina's Riverbanks Zoo and Garden stubbornly remains dead.

“he had died on the spot”

Man in India's Galta Gate dies after third floor rooftop fall while fighting marauding monkeys.

“Actually, he's Brisbane's stolen monkey”

The wrong stolen tamarin monkey turned in to Australia's Simbio Wildlife Park.

“more than two to three days to catch a monkey”

Municipal Corporation of Delhi wises up: if you want more monkey catchers, pay more for monkey catchers!

“proportionately largest brain of all primates”

Squirrel monkeys born at Virginia Zoo.

“seven in the past month”

Complaint filed, federal inspection planned, in death of Hank, 42-year-old chimpanzee at Chattanooga Zoo.

Goodbye, Lulu

46-year-old gorilla, first gorilla to give birth at New York's Central Park Zoo, dies Monday at Columbus Zoo and Aquarium after suffering seizures.

“the reincarnation of their ancestors”

Wild chimpanzees solve Gordian Knot.

“It was named Kipenzi”

Australia gains a gorilla!

Goodbye, Hank

42-year-old chimpanzee at Chattanooga Zoo dies in his sleep. Zoo plans to have life celebration, probably with religion-neutral dances.

“known to damage crops and steal food”

Japan's champion bitey monkey breaks jail.

“illegal ape parts”

Getting ahead in the bushmeat trade.

Yikes!

The always thought-provoking TJIC blog is down after Travis made a nekulturny joke. (h/t)

More

Still more.


OK, I hate joining things, but really!

“the first time the zoo’s chimps had attacked”

Friday, chimpanzees at Riverside Discovery Center in Scottsbluff, Nebraska bite two fingers off of keeper's hand. It's unclear if they were successfully reattached.

“We take a ‘hands-off’ approach with all primates”

Patas money born at Rosamond Gifford Zoo, in Syracuse NY.

“so she will have a tubal ligation”

Little Rock Zoo announced Wednesday that Judy the chimpanzee has lost two offspring: one stillborn, the other a few days after birth.

“langurs were brought in to keep the monkeys at bay”

At the Sanjay Gandhi Post-Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences in Lucknow, India, they'll set a monkey to catch a monkey.

“injuries mainly on the face”

Student injured in monkey attack at India's Jakhu temple (dedicated to Lord Hanuman, the monkey god.)

“fruit and other treats inside piñatas”

A party will be held this weekend at El Paso Zoo to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the birth of Henry the Sumatran orangutan.

“Penguins are exempt from the count this year”

Annual nearly-comprehensive animal count underway at London Zoo.

“hurting people”

Tennessee minister/photographer recounts his many adventures and his catholic diet while globe-trotting.

Not much meat on one, I bet

Madagascar police capture a poacher with 32 grilled lemurs.

More.

“tamarin monkeys are not allowed out to play in the snow”

Only animals with warm fur frolic in the cold of the UK's Linton Zoo.

“birthday party”

Maria, a native of Sacramento, lives with her parents Pablo and Amelia at the chimpanzee enclosure at the Land Park zoo.