A troop of monkeys trained to perform Tae Kwon Do turned on their owner, punching and kicking him in the face in front of a crowd of onlookers. One Kung-Fu monkey demonstrated proficiency with the bo staff,...
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Apparently, a monkey is on the loose in the Novato neighborhood of Hamilton. As monkeys of any kind are not native to Marin County, it's a safe presumption that the monkey, described by my parents' neighbors as...
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Charla Nash, still hospitalized nine months after the chimp attack that made world headlines, is suing the state of Connecticut's Environmental Protection Department for $150 million. Susan Herold, the owner of...
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Anjana the chimp has adopted another puma cub. I say "another" because Anjana the chimp has loads of experience in taking care of big cats: she's already looked after white tigers, leopards and pumas. Anjana the chimp is a sort of volunteer at The Institute of Greatly...
Lucky mouse or unlucky lemur: depends on how you look at it. Predator-prey relationships against a human environment were writ small at the Five Sisters Zoo in Scotland last week, when a lemur nearly got hold of a field mouse. Just as the monkey was about to grab hold of the...
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Jason Biggs was attacked by a monkey while he was vacationing in Gibraltar with American Pie co-star Eddie Kaye Thomas. The American Pie acting duo were going for a hike in the woods when a monkey leapt from a...
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Scientists have produced monkeys with genetic material created by splicing DNA from two diferent mothers into a single egg. Eventually, this technique could be used on people to combat birth defects and disease passed down from an embryo's mother, but also raises significant...
Scientist working at Gombe Nationals Park in Tanzania think they have found the HIV 'missing link' in sick chimps. Chimpanzees get a wasting disease similar to human HIV, called simian immunodeficiency...
According to a surveillance video, Plants and Planters in Richardson, Texas has been burglarized by a two-foot monkey. "Plants and Planters has been burglarized several times, but co-owner Jerry Duncan said it's...
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"With a reduced-calorie diet, monkeys were less likely to die of an age-related disease -- cancer, heart disease or diabetes, reports a study in the journal Science. ...
Cotton-top tamarin monkeys are a step ahead of most web users, and can recognize bad grammar when they see it. When subjected to repeated series of syllables, the monkeys could recognize when those syllables...
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Economics are afoot and they are coming to banana tree near you. Ronald Noe, at the University of Strasbourg has used primates own currency - food, grooming and sex - to valuate primate commodity markets and their...
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Researchers at the Yerkes Primate Research Center have succeeded in creating a transgenic monkey that carries the gene for Huntington Disease. This group of monkeys now carries a copy of a human gene, albeit...