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Thursday, March 19, 2009
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Chimp plans revenge... and pays a steep price
Santino, a 31-year-old male chimpanzee at Sweden's Furuvik Zoo, apparently got frustrated and fed up with people pointing, laughing, making "chimp sounds" and generally acting like monkeys outside the chimp enclosure. So, as dominant male in his group, he came up with a plan: Santino collected a nice pile of stones, and one day unloaded his arsenal on the tourists. Fascinating behaviour, this represents the first well-documented example of a non-human animal planning ahead. Unfortunately for poor Santino, his reward for displaying such human behaviour was castration. Makes one wonder who are the beasts in that zoo...
Story at The Guardian here, and another from Scientific American
Sunday, March 8, 2009
Saturday, March 7, 2009
Tokyo Monkey Maybe Moved To Osaka
"A monkey scampered through a residential neighborhood in Ibaraki City, Osaka prefecture, and ate a dried persimmon.
"A passerby called police around 2:30 p.m. Feb. 13. "There is a big ape in the East Ota neighborhood," the woman told police. The Japanese macaque monkey snacked while police kept watch. The police pursued the monkey as it scampered along rooftops and power lines.
"Around 5 p.m., the monkey jumped onto the Hankyu Kyoto Line railroad tracks and fled across the border into the Takatsuki City limits. The police lost sight of the monkey.
"It is unclear if the Ibaraki City monkey is, or is related to, the Tokyo Shibuya monkey. If the Shibuya monkey travelled to Ibaraki City by train, it would have had to pass unnoticed through several stations, a difficult task for a dirty, smelly, yen-less, stressed monkey.
"Route of monkey escape in Ota city, Japan The appearance of a second monkey running wild in an urban area in Japan could be cause for concern. The Shibuya monkey apparently is stealing food and supplies. The Ibaraki City monkey stole a persimmon. The Shibuya monkey uses Tokyo train routes without paying fares. The Ibaraki City monkey also utilized public transportation facilities. An influx of lawbreaking, mass-transit-riding impish monkeys would divert police from other efforts, such as their never-ending campaign to inform every person over the age of 65, in person, twice, about frauds targeting the elderly.
"The Ibaraki City monkey is on the police Most Wanted list for fruit theft now. Scientific studies have proven that stealing persimmons leads to a desire for stronger fruit – fresh ume and aomikan for example. The monkey could eventually become addicted to ginnan nuts.
"Perhaps police have reason to worry. If the Ibaraki monkey teams with the Shibuya monkey, it would be another organized crime gang to be put down. The monkeys could take over the illegal ginnan nut trade.
"We don’t believe the lovable Shibuya monkey could turn to a life of crime. However, if the two meet, the influence of the Ibaraki monkey may be too strong. Monkeys high on wild ginnan may dare to call senior citizens, convince them a relative is a monkey, and swindle cash for the monkey’s ultimate fix: bananas."
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Orangutan Survival Foundation on BBC tonight
The UK's BBC channel 2 is running a series on injured Orangutans in Borneo being cared for by the Borneo Organutan Survival Foundation:
via The Telegraph
"This engrossing series follows the fate of injured and illegally-owned orangutans at the Orangutan Survival Foundation’s Nyaru Menteng project in Borneo, which is run by Lone Droscher Nielson, a former air stewardess, who’s dedicated the last 13 years of her life to saving these great apes. It is estimated that with their forest home disappearing at an alarming rate, these intelligent creatures will be extinct within 10 years.
"In tonight’s episode Strachan and the self-deprecating and friendly Leonard introduce us to more of the 600 orangutans being cared for, focusing on Ruthie, a self-harming orangutan traumatised by her time in captivity, and playful orphans Peanut and Pickle, who are learning the skills they’ll need to survive in the wild. Elsewhere, the Rescue Team fights to save a young orangutan that has been held illegally in a tiny crate...
via The Telegraph
Monkeys on a banana
I found this hilarious (and pretty good) drawing of monkeys done on a banana peel in furryscaly's Flickr account...
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The monkey blog is dead; long live the monkey blog!
The blog MonkeyDayNews has ended. What a shame!
In its last post, several people offered to keep the MonkeyDayNews blog going by becoming contributors. It looks like Casey Sorrow's not going to take them up, so this blog has been started to allow them to keep the tradition of monkey news blogging alive until Casey can start posting at MonkeyDayNews again. The name InfiniteMonkeyNews was picked to express the fact that this is meant to be a group blog. Could Infinite Monkeys typing on Infinite PC's produce a blog? We'll find out!
In its last post, several people offered to keep the MonkeyDayNews blog going by becoming contributors. It looks like Casey Sorrow's not going to take them up, so this blog has been started to allow them to keep the tradition of monkey news blogging alive until Casey can start posting at MonkeyDayNews again. The name InfiniteMonkeyNews was picked to express the fact that this is meant to be a group blog. Could Infinite Monkeys typing on Infinite PC's produce a blog? We'll find out!
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