chimpanzees

I have been trying to find some photos online of an incident I read about in a magazine some time ago. It was a story about a camera that was lost or somehow taken by chimpanzees and later recovered. When the photos were developed they showed the chimps, after having taken a couple of photos...

I reckon this belongs here. Imho chimps are smarter than a lot of humans. SOURCE: http://news.nature.com//news/2007/070423/070423-9.html

Does anyone have any information about a weird (conditioning, I think) experiment conducted a few years ago in which a man dressed in a bunny suit brought rewards and gifts to a chimp, left the room, then came back in and this time, deliberately terrified the animal. He'd then leave the room...

I guess this thread is a suitable place to mention today's news story that chimps and humans 'should share grouping'. I would say that this is generously unanthropocentric of us to share our genus, except that it would surely be less taxonomic hassle to rename us "Pan sapiens"?

Chimp human hybrid I remember seeing on TV (The fortean TV programme) A bipedal ape that could have been a human chimp hybrid. Anyone have any more info on this?

Chimps may be smarter than we thought. From theWashington Post. : 'A band of chimpanzees in West Africa routinely swing crude stone hammers to crack open nuts, a sophisticated use of tools the apes have been teaching to each new generation for more than a century. Using carefully selected...