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A primate’s spontaneous whistling shocked scientists!
Whistling at a pretty girl or for hailing a cab or even for carrying a tune has always been a human domain. But recently an orangutan’s spontaneous whistling only after hearing a caretaker make the sound shocked scientists at Great Ape Trust...
Tags: orangutans, great apes, chimpanzee, whistling, evolution of speech
Brussels moves on animal testing
Brussels :: Belgium | about 1 year ago
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The proposal would extend the ethical evaluations required before experiments with animals were authorised and set minimum requirements on housing and care.
Tags: European Commission, European Union, great apes, animal tested, scientific experiments
CORRECTED: Hippie apes make war as well as love, study finds (Reuters)
London :: United Kingdom | about 1 year ago
Credibility Despite their reputation as lovers, not fighters, of the primate world, bonobos actually hunt and kill monkeys, German researchers said Monday. Their findings, the first direct evidence of monkey hunting by the so-called "hippie" apes, show that such...
Tags: orangutans, chimpanzee, great apes
Times of India: VIEW: Treat the great apes in our own image
Mumbai :: India | about 1 year ago
Credibility Treat the great apes in our own image 5 Jul 2008, 0048 hrs IST The fact that some people are waking up to the suffering and torture inflicted on our closest genetic cousins, the great apes, is a sign of emerging maturity. Spain is about to take the unprecedented...
Tags: human rights, great apes
VIEW: Treat the great apes in our own image
Madrid :: Spain | about 1 year ago
Credibility Treat the great apes in our own image 5 Jul 2008, 0048 hrs IST The fact that some people are waking up to the suffering and torture inflicted on our closest genetic cousins, the great apes, is a sign of emerging maturity. Spain is about to take the unprecedented...
Tags: human rights, great apes
Spain to extend rights to apes
Madrid :: Spain | about 1 year ago
Credibility Spain may be better known abroad for bull-fighting than animal rights but the new measures are the latest move turning once-conservative Spain into a liberal trailblazer. Spain did not legalise divorce until the 1980s, but Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez...
Tags: Spain, great apes, apes project
Human protectors' sniffles killing endangered chimps?
Beijing :: China | about 1 year ago
Credibility London, January 25 : The idea of involving local people in the vicinity of jungles to protect animals from poachers seems to have boomeranged, with an African study suggesting that the contact with humans may be making chimpanzees vulnerable to
Tags: chimpanzee, chimp, great apes
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