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Tampabay.com (blog)There was one chimpanzee that had a spat with the alpha male and ran away from home. Karl went 'What was the argument about?' Really! That's your question? ...

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10 ConnectsPalm Harbor, Florida - The Pinellas County Sheriff's Office says a female volunteer at an animal sanctuary has been attacked by a chimpanzee. ...

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Huffington Post (blog)Bonobos, relatives of the common chimpanzee, have won a reputation for promiscuity. Bonobos do not form long-term, sexual partnerships. ...

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Tennessee JournalistGeorge, a chimpanzee at the Knoxville Zoo, is one of the animals that would prefer to be with one mate for life. George, a chimpanzee at the Knoxville Zoo, ...

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Science & Religion Today (blog)Written a decade ago, this volume has rapidly joined works by Jane Goodall in becoming a classic of long-term chimpanzee research. ...

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Harvard CrimsonRichard also hopes to edit a book on chimpanzee behavioral ecology, and make headway on a book about violence. But on the other hand we are very sad not to ...

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Kansas City Star (blog)From the "Not Without My Monkey" Department: In Sarasota, a Missouri man is trying to win custody of an 11-month-old chimpanzee, worth about $65000, ...

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The Wenatchee World OnlineGerber moves on to portray another kind of love with her next work — a sculpture of the famous signing chimpanzee Washoe, to be placed in Ellensburg, ...

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Sarasota Herald-TribuneHandler Virginia "Gini" Valbuena of Sarasota holds Eli, an 11-month-old chimpanzee who is in the middle of a custody battle. A Missouri man says the primate ...

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CBS NewsIn 1997, Stuart Newman, a biology professor at New York Medical School attempted to patent the genome of a chimpanzee-human as a means of preventing anyone ...

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10 ConnectsHis first year of life has been filled with legal proceedings, but those days are behind Eli and his animal baby-raiser, Gini Valbuena. ...

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Paste MagazinePaste caught up with Marsh in the midst of his new project (it's about a chimpanzee) for a brief chat about not-so-merry Olde England, why its filmmakers ...

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KGO-TVZoo keepers placed boxes for the Colts and Saints inside the chimpanzee exhibit. They guessed that the first box picked would be the Super Bowl winner. ...

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Fort Wayne Journal GazetteThe death of five animals – a caracal (a small cat), a black bear, a cougar, a tiger and a chimpanzee – all added to the park's expenses and disheartened ...

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Zap2it.com (blog)Charla Nash, the 56-year-old woman who had one of her hands, nose, lips and eyelids ripped off by a friend's pet chimpanzee, Travis, ...

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7thSpace Interactive (press release)Furthermore, Cameroon is home to two chimpanzee subspecies, which makes ascertaining the origins of these chimpanzees important for reintroduction planning ...

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ArchaeologyFor the Neanderthal sample, the human and chimpanzee genomes were used as references for checking the sequence. Working with ancient DNA can be much more ...

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UPI.com27 (UPI) -- The Connecticut woman mauled by a friend's pet chimpanzee has been told she is not a candidate for a face and hand transplant, her lawyer says. ...

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Discovery NewsThe world's oldest known chimpanzee twins, Golden and Glitter, are among the most successful non-human ...

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CBS News (blog)While the chimps probably didn't actively choose to film a specific subject, the footage may give researchers some insight into chimpanzee perspective. ...

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Huffington Post (blog)This was done, for example, by giving one chimpanzee access to a key that could unlock a door for another chimpanzee, behind which there was food. ...

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GlobalPost...(Henning Bagger/Scanpix/Reuters) A picture taken through a window shows eleven day-old male chimpanzee twins lying on the body of their 29-year-old mother ...

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Albany Times UnionThe biological sciences professor at the University at Albany has been collecting chimp DNA from chimpanzee nests in the trees of Cameroon. ...

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Scientific American (blog)A live chimpanzee can fetch $20000 on the international black market. The animals are also often victims of the bushmeat trade. Whereas wild chimpanzee ...

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WFAACredit: AP Tallulah, a chimpanzee at the San Francisco Zoo, tips a box full of treats with the names of the the two Super Bowl teams in San Francisco, ...

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CBS NewsBut a guy like Reagan, who needed a telepropmpter to speak to a Chimpanzee in Hollywood, probably wasn't an academic whiz kid. by erb0087 February 9, ...

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Santa Barbara IndependentPeriodic news clips — true stories ranging from Moe the missing chimpanzee to the fatal tiger attack at the San Francisco Zoo — and various exotic animal ...

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Pioneer PressDeputies said a chimpanzee mauled and seriously injured a volunteer at a Florida primate sanctuary Friday. Sheriff's deputies said Andrea Maturan, 21, ...

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PhysOrg.comThe fragments of DNA from the woman's bones were assembled using human and chimpanzee genomes as references. Researcher Gerald Irzyk said putting the ...

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CardPlayer.com (blog)Lee is a Full Tilt Pro and uses his poker winnings to help a chimpanzee rescue charity. Learn more about Lee at his website, www.leewatkinson.com.

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eFitnessNowCharla Nash, a Connecticut woman who suffered serious injuries at the hands of a chimpanzee, has been denied a face and hand transplant by the Cleveland ...

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National Journal (blog)I hate to be so blunt and publicly disparage an individual but she is little more than a talking chimpanzee incapable of critical thinking who wouldn't make ...

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Midlothian ExchangeRichmond Metro Zoo director Jim Andelin introduced this 18-month old chimpanzee at the annual chamber banquet, which was themed “It's a Jungle Out There. ...

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UPI.com..."And there could, of course, be forms of intelligence beyond human capacity, beyond as much as we are beyond a chimpanzee," Rees said. ...

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Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog)He made it simple – point and click, like a chimpanzee reaching for a banana – and, over time, made it elegant. It is that sense of design, that insistence ...

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AuctionBytes Blog (blog)We just celebrated (using that term loosely) our 11th anniversary on ebay and have watched the 20 ton gorilla grow from a chimpanzee over the years. ...

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Christian Science MonitorLater that year, Enos the chimp became the first chimpanzee to orbit the Earth. 4. Frog: In 1961, shortly after the first chimp made the grade, ...

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Escapist Magazine...and Modern European about the situation - after all, he's rather "close" with his secretary - until he discovers that her lover is a chimpanzee. ...

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Glossy News (satire)Charlie, a chimpanzee owned by animal psychologist Mary Lively, celebrated his 6th birthday by sending text messages on his very own laptop. ...

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SuperVegan (blog)In Defense of Animals launched a debit card that will direct a portion of transaction fees to IDA, which they will use to fund "our chimpanzee sanctuary in ...

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NTDTV..."We decided to file this habeas corpus to protect chimpanzee Jimmy from the inadequate place in which he lives. He is a chimpanzee who lives in isolation ...

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Science Magazine (subscription)The team found that the chimpanzee Y has lost many genes that are still present in humans—which presumably makes humans closer to the common ancestor than ...

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Huffington Post (blog)An article in the UK Daily Mail reported that Lusha, a chimpanzee in Russia, outperformed 94% of the country's investment funds. Her portfolio increased by ...

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7thSpace Interactive (press release)Anamika et al recently published in this journal a sequence alignment analysis of protein kinases encoded by the chimpanzee genome in comparison to those in ...

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The FriskyMeet Eli, a 13-pound, 11-month-old chimpanzee and another sad example of how divorce tears families apart. Eli became the first chimp to appear in a court ...

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The Detroit NewsAn Ohio hospital has told the family of a Connecticut woman mauled and blinded by a chimpanzee a year ago that she is not a candidate for a face and hand ...

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AOL NewsThe Monkey Girl grew up in the sideshow, often performing with a chimpanzee named Josephine. But when she was 20, Emmitt joined Percilla's show and suddenly ...

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Mother Nature Network (blog)But a new study shows that men may actually be more evolved from their chimpanzee roots than women. The study, featured in the online journal Nature found ...

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CBS MoneyWatch.com (blog)Lusha is a chimpanzee, and her day job is riding a scooter in the circus. Lusha was given one million rubles to invest, a list of stocks to pick from and ...

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Anchorage Daily NewsIn fact, if you've got a chimpanzee in the basement, better tell the Department of Fish and Game soon. The board voted to make chimps illegal, but if anyone ...

The Ultimate Source of Malaria Is Found in Chimps  -  05 Aug 2009
Discover MagazineResearchers have determined how malaria first came to afflict humanity, and have laid the blame on our closest relative, the chimpanzee.

Detroit Zoo s second Summer Zoomance event of 2009 is August 18th  -  05 Aug 2009
Zoo and Aquarium Visitor News...and see many new arrivals, including two black-and-white ruffed lemurs born in June, a baby aardvark born in December and a chimpanzee born last fall.

Lab-animal alternatives are the new guinea pigs  -  05 Aug 2009
Medill Reports: WashingtonAdditionally, because of our genetic differences, what does not effect a chimpanzee adversely may cause critical harm to a human.

The origin of malaria As Dr Livingstone presumed  -  05 Aug 2009
EconomistDr Rich, meanwhile, observes that because P. reichenowi, the closest relative of P. falciparum, is “of greatly diminished pathogenicity� in its chimpanzee

Yawn. Ozzy. Chimps. Yawn. Samsung. Yawn.  -  05 Aug 2009
AdrantsThe chimpanzee thing is over. Dead. Done. And that's made crystal clear in this new Sansung Solstice commercial featuring Ozzy Osbourne and, yes,

Bubbles the chimp to 'publish' tell-all memoir about Michael Jackson  -  05 Aug 2009
Telegraph.co.uk...spoof memoir was a "collection of very personal and honest entries from [Bubbles'] diary," giving readers the "whole story" of the chimpanzee's life.

Good Samaritans are everywhere  -  05 Aug 2009
Gisborne HeraldEmily walked past the world's foremost chimpanzee whisperer, by now blowing into the nostrils of a guide dog, and began ruffling the soft furry nether

Paradise Discovered In Sierra Leone  -  05 Aug 2009
CocoriokoThe couple stayed on an exotic island filled with fresh figs, guavas and starfruit, spent the night in an eco-lodge at a chimpanzee sanctuary,

A Wild (and Captive) Wauchula Night for Chimpanzee and Man  -  ‎Aug 3, 2009‎
BookslutThe book is structured around a middle-of-the-night encounter between Siebert and a 28-year-old chimpanzee named Roger who is housed at the Center for Great

Study Finds Chimps Die From Simian AIDS, Dispelling Widely Held Belief  -  ‎Jul 22, 2009‎
New York TimesIt also suggests that an outbreak of AIDS is contributing to the declining chimpanzee population in Africa, said the leader of the research team,

No J-League punishment after racist probe  -  ‎Jul 25, 2009‎
ESPN..."Sugiyama probably said the world 'shinpan' (referee) and it may have sounded like (chimpanzee)," Umino told the Sports Nippon daily.

New human HIV strain discovered in France  -  ‎Aug 4, 2009‎
Wikinews...which has been designated as P by the University of Rouen researchers, is the first confirmed human infection of an SIV from a non-Chimpanzee source.

Chimpanzee's 'autobiography' is nominated for the Booker Man Prize  -  ‎Jul 28, 2009‎
Times OnlineHe has more facial hair than Salman Rushdie, more caustic opinions than Martin Amis and more chance of lifting the 2009 Man Booker Prize than a host of

L.A. Zoo had to pay federal fine over animal deaths  -  ‎Jul 20, 2009‎
Los Angeles TimesThe $3281 payment was made as part of a 2008 settlement with the USDA over the 2006 deaths of a popular Asian elephant and a chimpanzee.

L.A. Zoo officials ordered to report to city council committee ...  -  ‎Jul 23, 2009‎
Los Angeles TimesThe next month, a chimpanzee, Judeo, was bitten by a rattlesnake.) The zoo paid a $3281 fine, but officials have steadfastly maintained they did everything

Presque Isle fair draws all ages to midway, music  -  ‎Aug 2, 2009‎
Bangor Daily NewsShe planned to meet up with some cousins later in the day to watch the dog show, a chimpanzee show, and to attend the princess and pirate party in the

Even A Chimpanzee Could Run Goldman Sachs - Reader Comments  -  ‎Jul 17, 2009‎
Here Is The CityHere are a few comments on our recent 'Even A Chimpanzee Could Run Goldman Sachs' item, which ponders whether the structure of the financial system itself

Chimpanzee couple checks in at Lonavla  -  ‎Jul 30, 2009‎
Mid-DaySuzy and Billy, a pair of South African chimpanzees, is living a good life since they were moved to Amby Valley, a holiday and residential destination owned

Lisa Marie fights to save a chimpanzee  -  ‎Jul 26, 2009‎
SpicezeeLondon: Singer Lisa Marie Presley has jumped into the fight to save a baby chimpanzee named after her. Lisa, the daughter of rock n roll legend Elvis

Knoxville Zoo's prize chimp is bold, curious as he turns 1  -  ‎Jul 18, 2009‎
Knoxville News SentinelKnoxville Zoo's baby chimpanzee, George, celebrated his first birthday on Saturday, July 18, 2009. The chimpanzee exhibit was decorated with

'Even A Chimpanzee Could Run Goldman Sachs'  -  ‎Jul 15, 2009‎
Here Is The CityEven a chimpanzee could run Goldman Sachs because of its structural position. Goldman's profitability, therefore, is based on structural and market

Chimps born to appreciate music  -  ‎Jul 30, 2009‎
BBC NewsThe discovery comes from experiments showing that an infant chimpanzee prefers to listen to consonant music over dissonant music.

Hollywood Exclusive: Ask Stacy  -  ‎Aug 4, 2009‎
The Jacksonville ObserverThen he decided that, as he put it, he wanted to be part of something bigger than himself — and acted on his knowledge that the world's dwindling chimpanzee

this playful chimpanzee is yours  -  ‎Jul 20, 2009‎
Burnet BulletinMost chimps do not make for good pets, but Jessy may have been the exception. jessy has got a winning personality and then some! Personality-wise, she might

Pitt anthropologist offers different opinion of humans' closest kin  -  ‎Aug 3, 2009‎
Pittsburgh Post GazetteChimpanzee or orangutan? Which great ape is our closet kin? The predominant opinion, based on genome comparisons, settles squarely on the shoulders of the

Skeleton keys  -  ‎Jul 13, 2009‎
San Diego Union Tribune...(Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge) - A virtual cutaway of a chimpanzee skull created by stacking digitized data slices generated by a hospital CT

Primate veterinarians promote animal welfare, biomedical research  -  ‎Aug 4, 2009‎
American Veterinary Medical AssociationGiven the considerable costs associated with caring for a chimpanzee throughout its lifetime—as much as $500000 over the span of 50 years—the NCRR in 1995

Prime mates  -  ‎Jul 24, 2009‎
guardian.co.ukEgged on by a tendency to anthropomorphism, some primatologists have argued that the difference between chimpanzee and human cognition is simply a matter of

Primate Archaeology Sheds Light On Human Origins  -  ‎Jul 15, 2009‎
Science Daily (press release)Mercader was the lead author of a team that laid the foundations of the emerging discipline of chimpanzee archaeology in two previously-published papers in

Do you text and drive?  -  ‎Jul 28, 2009‎
Atlanta Journal Constitution...different activity which is NOT driving (3.) Your hands are NOT in control of the steering wheel because you are typing with your thumbs like a chimpanzee.

Darchinyan, Agbeko ready to put words aside  -  ‎Jul 10, 2009‎
The Associated Press..."I think after this fight they are going to change my opponent's name to Joseph 'Chimpanzee' Agbeko," Darchinyan railed on a joint teleconference.

The Missing Voices in the Health Debate Really Matter  -  ‎Jul 28, 2009‎
Wall Street JournalEveryone , I mean, ABSOLUTELY EVERYONE with higer intelectual level than a chimpanzee or baboon could easily see how interesting - not to mention WONDERFUL

Ngamba Chimpanzee Safari Uganda 2009  -  ‎Jul 13, 2009‎
Update Travel NewsYou will reach the island and then be briefed about the chimpanzee and their histories before you move to the raised platform for chimpanzee viewing.

The Obama Joker poster: about time too  -  ‎Aug 3, 2009‎
Examiner.com...the last President (a certain George Bush for those with short memories) was habitually portrayed as a chimpanzee if not simply an out and out moron.

BBC: New HIV strain discovered  -  ‎Aug 2, 2009‎
Focus NewsThe HIV strains known so far were transferred from a chimpanzee to a human. The researchers, who published an article on the topic in the US magazine Nature

Out of Africa- The Kenyan Experience  -  ‎Aug 4, 2009‎
Daijiworld.comThe unique chimpanzee orphanage is a project of the famous conservationist Jane Goodall. These appealing creatures are not native to Kenya- they have been

CHIMPANZEE DISPLAYS HUMAN TRAIT OF NOT LIKING PRISON  -  ‎Jul 15, 2009‎
Daily Mash (satire)A CHIMPANZEE in a Swedish zoo has displayed the distinctly human characteristic of not enjoying being locked up against his will.

Opportunity for free admission to Michael Jackson tribute game  -  ‎Jul 22, 2009‎
Gridley HeraldJackson� set for Thursday, July 23, all fans who wear one non-baseball glove, bring a chimpanzee, or a Brooke Shields doll will be admitted free.

Antlers Extend Unbeaten Run With 2nd Half Equalizer  -  ‎Jul 26, 2009‎
Jakarta Globe...“Sugiyama probably said the world 'shinpan' ['referee'] and it may have sounded like [chimpanzee],� Umino told the Sports Nippon daily.

Monkey business  -  ‎Aug 1, 2009‎
spectroscopyNOW.comKawasaki, and the Chimpanzee Sanctuary Uto, Kumamoto, wanted to use saliva to track changes in the levels of cortisol and testosterone.

I'm tired of just being a man  -  ‎Jul 11, 2009‎
SalonOf all the retired chimpanzee and orangutan entertainers who reside here at the Center for Great Apes in Wauchula, Florida, Roger is the only one who lives

Extramarital affairs, retribution and lawsuits  -  ‎Jul 18, 2009‎
Examiner.comProfessor of Physiology at UCLA Medical School, Jared Diamond, author of 'The Third Chimpanzee' and winner of the Los Angeles book prize contends that

Scientists Discover Origin of Malaria  -  ‎Aug 3, 2009‎
PR Newswire (press release)...did not originate in humans but rather was introduced into our species, presumably by the bite of a mosquito that had previously fed on a chimpanzee.

Connecticut bans private ownership of 3 primates  -  ‎Jul 23, 2009‎
DVM 360The initial exotic-animal bill was introduced after a pet chimpanzee critically injured a woman earlier this year. Charla Nash, 55, was attacked in February

Michael Jackson's Bubbles becomes world's richest chimp  -  ‎Jul 23, 2009‎
XinhuaMichael Jackson's pet chimpanzee Bubbles has become the richest chimp in the world after the pop idol had signed $2 million away to Bubbles.

Chimps recovering well after zoo ordeal  -  ‎Jul 24, 2009‎
The WitnessCharles and Jessica are being cared for at Chimpanzee Eden in Mpumalanga near Nelspruit, after they left KZN in January. In a report in April this year,

Lessons From an Animal Cruelty Case In the US Supreme Court  -  ‎Aug 3, 2009‎
FindLawThey suggest that they would never eat a gorilla or a chimpanzee, but cows, chickens, turkeys, and fishes lack language and a cognitive system like ours and

Not a Chimp, By Jeremy Taylor  -  ‎Jul 15, 2009‎
IndependentAnyone looking at the chimpanzee skeleton and ours, with their differently proportioned limbs, would guess that the timing of the processes of bone growth

Welcome to the Jungle  -  ‎Jul 14, 2009‎
fairfieldweekly.comBecause of the terrible mauling of a Stamford resident by a 200-pound chimpanzee, Connecticut authorities — up to the Attorney General

Connecticut biologist voiced concerns about chimp  -  25 Mar 2009
Rocky Mount TelegramA Connecticut biologist warned state officials nearly five months ago that a 200-pound chimpanzee who mauled a woman last month could seriously hurt someone

Race still our most polarizing issue  -  25 Mar 2009
Arizona Daily WildcatLast month, the New York Post published a cartoon depicting a chimpanzee being shot by police, while one of them says, "They'll have to find someone else to

Illegal miners destroying swathes of wildlife in Democratic ...  -  25 Mar 2009
Wildlife ExtraHowever, during this most recent study period, Hicks and his staff witnessed 34 chimpanzee orphans and 31 carcasses for sale in the Buta-Aketi-Bambesa area.

Exotic anmials not meant to be pets  -  25 Mar 2009
Hillsboro Argus - OregonLive.comThe recent news of a pet chimpanzee attacking his owner's friend doesn't surprise staff at the Oregon Zoo. "It's a sad story, but the reality is,

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution  -  25 Mar 2009
Atlanta Journal ConstitutionNow that never will happen because she can’t return to the African jungle where she found an ape that appeared to be a cross between a chimpanzee and a

DRC : Chimps are Not Pets  -  25 Mar 2009
KongoTimesThe mainstream media is abuzz with news of a 15-year old 200 pound (90kg) chimpanzee that attacked a woman in Stamford, Connecticut, USA.

Michael Jackson slammed by animal rights group  -  25 Mar 2009
NME.comThe statement reads: "Michael Jackson gave away his chimpanzee, and left giraffes, elephants and other animals in appalling, cramped conditions when he

Leading horses to slaughter and political action for animals  -  25 Mar 2009
Examiner.comAfter a chimpanzee, named Travis, attacked and severely injured someone in the home where he lived as a companion animal, the House of Representatives

• Oh, but they're such cuddly pets  -  25 Mar 2009
The Oregonian - OregonLive.comThe bill comes after the much-reported incident in Connecticut where a pet chimpanzee mauled a woman. But pressure to change the law started in 2002,

The music goes silent at Record and Tape Traders  -  25 Mar 2009
Explore Baltimore County: Catonsville TimesPosters of Kurt Cobain, Elvis Presley, Bob Marley, Audrey Hepburn and a chimpanzee wearing headphones all had to go. So did the plastic tray for making ice

PETA: Boredom behind bars at the zoo  -  25 Mar 2009
Colorado DailyThese examples -- along with a recent story about a chimpanzee in a Swedish zoo who stockpiles rocks to throw at gawking visitors -- may sound like fodder

Names, please  -  25 Mar 2009
Concord Monitor...(true story by the way) So lighten up Claude. Life is much too important to take it seriously. By Chimpanzee Refuge on Wed, 03/25/2009 - 00:19.

State Biologist Warned Of Chimp's Potential For Harm  -  ‎Mar 21, 2009‎
Hartford CourantBy ARIELLE LEVIN BECKER | The Hartford Courant Four months before Travis the chimpanzee brutally attacked a Stamford woman, a state Department of

Family of chimpanzee attack victim Charla Nash files suit against ...  -  ‎Mar 18, 2009‎
Los Angeles TimesThe family of Charla Nash, the Connecticut woman who was attacked by a pet chimpanzee last month, has filed suit against the chimp's owner, Sandra Herold.

Katy Perry gets peed on by chimpanzee, dating Josh Groban  -  ‎Mar 23, 2009‎
Daily TelegraphKATY Perry had an unfortunate accident when nature called during a photo shoot and the chimpanzee she was starring with peed on her.

Chimpanzee in Sweden plots and executes attack on zoo visitors  -  ‎Mar 9, 2009‎
Los Angeles TimesMany zoo visitors have witnessed chimpanzees throwing, uh, stuff, in the direction of people, but a particular chimp in Sweden has the scientific community

Measure Would Ban More Species From Connecticut Homes  -  ‎Mar 7, 2009‎
Hartford CourantThe legislation comes in the wake of last month's chimpanzee attack in Stamford that left a 55-year-old woman with serious, disfiguring injuries.

Stone-throwing chimpanzee displays humanlike planning abilities  -  ‎Mar 14, 2009‎
Los Angeles TimesAs a chimpanzee, Santino wasn't thought to be capable of anticipating events in a way that so closely resembled human behavior.

Presenter sorry for George Alagiah chimpanzee joke  -  ‎Mar 13, 2009‎
Times OnlineA presenter on the BBC News Channel has apologised after likening newsreader George Alagiah to a chimpanzee. Chris Eakin made the light-hearted remark as he

Brother of Woman Mauled by Chimpanzee Speaks Out About Horrific ...  -  ‎Mar 10, 2009‎
FOXNewsYou may remember, the Connecticut woman was mauled by a chimpanzee on February 16. She was friends and worked for the animal's owner.

Jane Goodall part of St. Louis Speaker Series  -  ‎Mar 24, 2009‎
KWMUWorld renowned primatologist and naturalist Jane Goodall is most famous for her 45-year study of Chimpanzee social interaction and behavior.

Dangerous Animals: Dogs, alligators and other animals attack  -  ‎Mar 23, 2009‎
NewsdayIn this Oct. 19, 2003 file photo, Travis, an escaped chimpanzee, is coaxed into a waiting sport utility vehicle in downtown Stamford, Conn.

Wild Animals Belong In Wild, Not In Homes  -  ‎Mar 24, 2009‎
TheDayThe case of a 200-pound chimpanzee mauling a 55-year-old woman in Stamford in February makes the legislation all the more urgent. And just this weekend,

Humans nothing special, says expert  -  ‎Mar 23, 2009‎
Stuff.co.nzAnd the fact that a chimpanzee in Sweden is piling up rocks to throw at zoo visitors is nothing special, says Frans de Waal, professor of primate behaviour

Primate refuge seeks donors for expansion  -  ‎Mar 21, 2009‎
Shreveport TimesThe chimpanzee was born in the 1980s as part of a Texas exotic animal safari before spending years being bounced around from dealer to dealer.

OPINION: A Chimpanzee Should Never be a Pet  -  ‎Mar 3, 2009‎
Opposing ViewsThe news out of Stamford, Connecticut that a fifteen year old chimpanzee named Travis had seriously mauled a woman and then been shot and killed by police

Biologically, men are more violent than women  -  ‎Mar 22, 2009‎
The Daily EvergreenLike Yanomamo war, chimpanzees conduct lethal raiding in subgroups of males – gangs of roughly a half dozen to a dozen – to raid local chimpanzee

Katy Perry Urinated On By Chimpanzee  -  ‎Mar 20, 2009‎
AngryApeKaty Perry had an embarassing experience during a photoshoot, when a chimpanzee relieved itself on the singer. Perry admitted the animal urinated on her in

Chimpanzee Discovery Day celebrates the Year of Science on March 21  -  ‎Mar 11, 2009‎
Alexandria Town TalkKEITHVILLE — Chimp Haven once again opens the sanctuary to the public on Saturday, March 21 for the first Chimpanzee Discovery Day of 2009.

Think as a chimpanzee  -  ‎Mar 16, 2009‎
บางกอกโพสIn his experiment with a chimpanzee, Kohler observed and deduced that not all animals learn through mere trial-and-error processes or stimulus-response

The 'I' In 'Chimpanzee'? Not So Much  -  ‎Mar 2, 2009‎
OfficialWireBut a pro-wrestler would not be able to hold a chimpanzee still if he wanted to. Chimpanzee males have been measured as having the five times the arm

It’s Darwin’s fault  -  ‎Mar 9, 2009‎
Waterbury Republican American...she says that: “In the wake of a terrifying and unexpected mauling by a chimpanzee, some have rushed to blame Darwin for putatively implying that they

Enlarged heart played role in chimpanzee death Catherine Wolf ...  -  ‎Mar 5, 2009‎
KWMUSt. Louis Zoo officials say Cinder, a 14-year-old hairless chimpanzee that died in February, had an enlarged heart. The Zoo's Dr. Eric Miller says the

Op-Ed Contributor Something Wild  -  ‎Mar 6, 2009‎
New York TimesBut when those same sentiments are voiced in the aftermath of a chimpanzee attack like the one in Stamford, Conn., last month — in which a pet chimp named

Second Banana Tells All  -  ‎Mar 12, 2009‎
Wall Street JournalThe plan: Send a car down Hollywood Blvd. with Cheeta, Tarzan's chimpanzee sidekick, at the wheel and honking the horn while Jackie, the lion that roars to

Spark Blog: The Science Behind Why Chimps Are Not Pets  -  ‎Mar 6, 2009‎
PBSResearcher Brian Hare is a strong advocate for eliminating the chimpanzee pet trade, as we learned when we filmed with him at the North Carolina Zoo.

Monkeys may teach their babies how to floss  -  ‎Mar 18, 2009‎
MajikthiseShe observed that "on five consecutive days, before the zoo opened, the chimpanzee gathered stones from the water and placed them in caches.

Jane Goodall Visits Capitol Hill to Discuss Science and Conservation  -  ‎Mar 16, 2009‎
Kansas City infoZineGoodall drew laughter when she began her discussion by imitating a chimpanzee greeting, a sharp and loud whoop. "When we began 50 years ago, we didn't have

Racism rampant; cartoon offends  -  ‎Mar 3, 2009‎
The OrionSince when is it funny to depict an African-American as a chimpanzee and shoot it? What if that depiction symbolizes President Barack Obama?

Chimp Haven's space chimp  -  ‎Mar 18, 2009‎
KTBSIt could be said that the Endangered Species chocolate bar bearing a photo of two-year-old Tracy, Chimp Havens youngest chimpanzee, is out of this world.

Chimpanzees Invent Brush-Tipped Tool  -  ‎Mar 4, 2009‎
Discovery ChannelThe recently identified chimpanzee brush tool, described in the latest Royal Society Journal Biology Letters, requires even more effort to construct.

Metairie's Finest: The phrase ‘pink elephant’ is not a racist term ...  -  ‎Mar 2, 2009‎
LSU The Reveille18, depicts a policeman shooting a chimpanzee while another officer says “They’ll have to find someone else to write the next stimulus bill.

Cartoon Offends Some, Not All  -  ‎Mar 5, 2009‎
Pioneer TimesThe cartoon that created this entire buzz played off an incident the day before, in which a chimpanzee being kept as a pet was shot and killed by a police

Lyme Disease Not Likely To Have Caused Church Shooting  -  ‎Mar 10, 2009‎
RedOrbitThis condition was displayed in the chimpanzee attack reported last month, which led to injuries in a Connecticut woman, said Dr. Paul Auwaerter,

Is Black History Month Still Necessary?  -  ‎Mar 2, 2009‎
The Cauldron (subscription)The comic featured two white cops holding a smoking gun in front of a chimpanzee that was laying dead on a sidewalk. The caption read "they'll have to find

The Commander Porterhouse and Oyster Bar  -  ‎Mar 7, 2009‎
Times OnlineEven the most cursory knowledge of chimpanzee behaviour would warn you not to share a house with one — certainly not to introduce it to your friends.

AM Stir: Parents guide to watching 'tween TV  -  ‎Mar 14, 2009‎
Florida Times-Union1 about Cheeta, the chimpanzee who was in all those old Johnny Weissmuller "Tarzan" movies: He's 76 and still alive, the oldest chimpanzee ever.

Viewing Journalism as a Work of Art  -  ‎Mar 23, 2009‎
New York Times...“It’s entirely conceivable,� he continued, “that such a picture might have been taken by a child or a robot or a chimpanzee — it’s nowhere near as hard as

Apes Isolated, Distressed in Research Lab, Humane Society Says  -  ‎Mar 4, 2009‎
Metro.usThe tape shows a worker shooting a chimp with a sedation dart gun, then watching it drop to the concrete floor, as well as acts of chimpanzee

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