The reason gorillas spin themselves around in circles
Apes turn rapidly to achieve an altered mental state and feeling of euphoria, just as the earliest humans did millions of years ago
Gorillas and other apes spin themselves around in circles to get “high” – and early humans who lived...
Uncle Fatty, the simian lard arse is sent off to lose weight.
A monkey who has been given the nickname ‘uncle fatty’ is finally getting help for his obesity.
The 33lb long-tailed macaque will go to boot camp after gorging on food from tourists including melons, milkshakes, sweetcorn and...
In a move that some scientists say raises serious ethical questions, researchers have for the first time embryos that are a hybrid of human and monkey cells.
Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte, a professor in the Gene Expression Laboratories at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla...
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the wellcome centre for ethics and humanities
Robot 'spy' gorilla records wild gorillas singing and farting, because nature is beautiful
Source: livescience.com
Date: 29 April, 2020
Mountain gorillas have been caught on camera as they "sing" during their supper, a behavior that has never before been documented on video. Filmmakers...
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Gorillas making good babysitters?
Gorilla to be left holding the baby
TV presenter Donna Air and her zoo-owner boyfriend Damian Aspinall are planning to put their baby daughter in the hands of a 200lb gorilla.
The couple are to place baby Freya in the gorilla enclosure at Howletts Zoo...
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"?
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.
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