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Undercover Investigation Reveals Cruelty to Chimps at Research Lab |

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Baby chimps are as smart as human infants

Chimpanzees have long been known for their ability to mimic humans. Now scientists... more

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Chained Dog Pays Ultimate Price for Boy's Cruelty

A dog is going to be euthanized after attacking a boy. The dog was chained up to a... more

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Dog Adopts Monkey - VIDEO

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Choose the right biofuel, or the Orangutan gets it

Informative video on palm oil farming & the destruction of rainforests &... more

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Africa's oldest known chimp dies at the age of 66

A nice write up for Gregoire, a 66-year-old chimp, who lived for 40+ years in in... more

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Gorilla farts so bad zoo forced to apologize

Gorillas at Chessington Zoo are in the mist of a stench caused by brussell sprouts.... more

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Whistling orangutan may hint at language evolution

Bonnie's whistling isn't so surprising to her caregivers. The 140-pound... more

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United Nations declares 2009 'Year of the Gorilla'

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So Much for the Rule of Threes | GorillaDoctors.wildlifedirect.org

- The Mountain Gorilla Doctors Update - A sad week in Rwanda. Several deaths are... more

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Woman 'pregnant' with monkey convicted of smuggling

Gypsy Lawson and her mother Fran Ogren have been convicted of attempting to smuggle a... more

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Gorilla love conquers war in DR Congo

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Israeli saves chimp from Congolese troops - Israel Activism, Ynetnews

Aid worker staying in war-torn African country rescues starved, tortured chimpanzee held by government soldiers, transfers chimp to local nature institute for treatment

Through the battles that have been raging in southeast Congo and the hundreds of thousands of people uprooted from their homes, Israeli aid worker Eyal Reinich managed to rescue a young chimpanzee that was being illegally held by soldiers in the city of Goma.

Reinich has spent the past six months in the North-Kivu district as the director of Belgian organization Handicap International's office. "On my way to aid at the refugee camps, I noticed government soldiers patroling the area with a chimpanzee on them," Reinich said in a telephone interview from Congo.

"Mafima (the chimpanzee) looked very bad, she would just pick up hear head to smile or make contact, but the soldiers just abused her, and beat her up. It was hard to resist her human face. She looked completely starved."

Reinich approached the soldiers and asked to take Mafima from them, but was told that the chimpanzee was a lucky charm for them. "They said that thanks to her they beat the rebels," he said, "I gently told them that I did not want a confrontation with them and if they would just give me the chimpanzee, maybe I could find a better place for her and that would be a lucky charm for them."

After some negotiation, Reinich and the soldiers set up a meeting, and Mafima was eventually purchased for US$ 130 and brought to Reinich's home.

"Mafima suffered from a gunshot injury in the palm of her hand. She was weak, starved, her hair was falling out as a result of malnutrition and stress," said Reinich, who immediately contacted the Congolese Institute for the Conservation of Nature (ICCN) to come pick her up.

For four days Reinich and his housemates cared for Mafima thoroughly; cleaning her, feeding her, giving her lice and flea medicine, and of course providing her with the warmth she was missing during her time with the soldiers.

"We even let her sleep in the same bed with us," said Reinich. "She's a real sweetheart."

ICCN representatives arriving to pick Mafima up frowned on the fact that Reinich bought her from the soldiers, fearing it would only encourage the trade of protected wildlife.
What's the alternative? To let her suffer from a gunshot wound and soldiers' abuse?" Reinich said. "That she be a starved living lucky charm? It's not the ideal solution, but it was the best choice in the given situation."Aid worker staying in war-torn African country rescues starved, tortured chimpanzee... more

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International Animal Rescue

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"Extinct" primate found in Indonesia

It may look like a gremlin, but this tiny animal is actually a pygmy tarsier, recently... more

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SMOKED: Infants & Pregnant Mothers

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New threat to orangutan

TANJUNG PUTING NATIONAL PARK, Indonesia — In the rush to feed the world's... more

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Thousands flee fighting as Congo rebels seize gorilla park

CNN) -- Congolese rebels seized a major military camp and a spacious gorilla park in a... more

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Gorillas show off their smarts

When the frozen blueberry rolled out of a tube near a 42-inch touch-screen computer in the Lincoln Park Zoo's great ape house, a lowland gorilla named Rollie popped the berry into her mouth, gleefully stomped her feet and let out a celebratory hoot.

Rollie had correctly solved a seven-step number puzzle on the screen, winning a treat and an enthusiastic cheer from a keeper. But her skills are also being noticed outside the confines of the zoo.

Conventional wisdom has it that gorillas are somewhat less intelligent than their great ape cousins. Rollie's success is challenging those assumptions, suggesting she might, in fact, be faster on the uptake than chimpanzees and orangutans.

A report on her work recently caused a stir at the biennial meeting of the International Primatological Society Congress in Scotland.

"Gorillas have always had a reputation of being a little bit slower-witted than other great apes," said Steve Ross, who supervises cognitive and behavioral research for the zoo's primate research arm, the Lester E. Fisher Center for the Study and Conservation of Apes. "They aren't as dynamic as chimps socially, and they don't show the mechanical cleverness that orangutans display."

Ross admits he subscribed to the theory himself.

"This study can't generalize for all gorillas, but because [Rollie] has been such a quick learner, it suggests that gorillas in general are smarter than we have given them credit for," he said.

Ross' immediate aim in studying primate cognition and intelligence is to devise preference tests that allow animals to "talk" to keepers, expressing what foods they like or reporting on good and bad features of their habitats. But exploring animal cognition also is a way of looking at human intellect and language, providing insights into how they evolved.

Chimpanzees and orangutans are studied often at primate and medical research labs worldwide. But captive gorillas - perhaps too temperamental as adults to be used as research subjects - aren't often kept outside of zoos, so they are far less studied.

Lincoln Park is the only place in the world doing touch-screen testing with both chimps and gorillas.

"It is exciting to see that [Rollie's] performance is comparable with other great apes," said Tara Stoinski, a Zoo Atlanta primatologist. "What is really exciting is to see this kind of work being done with gorillas because so little research is being done on gorilla cognition."When the frozen blueberry rolled out of a tube near a 42-inch touch-screen computer in... more

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