by Melanie Parker | Jan 14, 2024 | News Article Link
Researchers led by a University of California, Berkeley comparative psychologist have found that great apes and chimpanzees, our closest living relatives, can recognize groupmates they haven’t seen in over two decades — evidence of what’s believed to be the longest-lasting nonhuman memory ever recorded.
by Melanie Parker | Jun 23, 2023 | News Article Link
Monkeys infected with tuberculosis were imported into Michigan earlier this year, sparking a disease investigation by state officials and raising questions from animal rights advocates over national testing shortfalls.
by Melanie Parker | Mar 17, 2023 | News Article Link
A Carter County woman says she was attacked and injured by a neighbor’s pet monkey while in her own front yard Sunday afternoon.
by Melanie Parker | Oct 7, 2022 | News Article Link
Wild chimpanzees have their own “signature drumming style” according to scientists. Researchers who followed and studied chimps in the Ugandan rainforest found that the animals drum out messages to one another on tree roots.
by Melanie Parker | Oct 7, 2022 | News Article Link
A long-term study led by primatologist Crickette Sanz at Washington University in St. Louis reveals the first evidence of lasting social relationships between chimpanzees and gorillas in the wild.
by Melanie Parker | Jul 31, 2022 | News Article Link, The Monkeys
Today, in a significant move that should have an impact on wasteful, old-style animal experiments, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) announced that the conservation status of long-tailed macaques and pig-tailed macaques has been changed from “vulnerable” to “endangered.”