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‘What’s up with all these monkeys’: Djungelskog the orangutan comforted Punch – but can the Ikea toy help me? Punch may look sweet with his plushie – but anthropomorphism can’t tell us what a wild animal is truly experiencing
26.02.2026 06:27 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Blue-faced, puffy-lipped monkey scores a rare conservation win Vietnam's Tonkin snub-nosed monkeys are one of the world's most endangered primates.
23.02.2026 10:46 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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‘That’s a losing battle’: baboon incursions cause tense human-wildlife standoff in Cape Town Animal rights activists disagree with authorities on how best to handle boom in primate population near Table Mountain
22.02.2026 10:04 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Abandoned baby monkey finds comfort in stuffed orangutan, charming zoo visitors At a zoo outside Tokyo, the monkey enclosure has become a must-see attraction thanks to an inseparable pair: Punch, a baby Japanese macaque, and his stuffed orangutan companion.
22.02.2026 01:16 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Fans flock to Japan zoo to see viral baby monkey Punch The six month old macaque's relationship with a soft toy orangutan has become an internet sensation.
21.02.2026 10:24 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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From the Damnthatsinteresting community on Reddit: Close up of gorilla beating his chest. Explore this post and more from the Damnthatsinteresting community
17.02.2026 05:58 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Rare monkey with orange hair born at Whipsnade Zoo Zoo says the birth of the endangered François' langur offers hope for the survival of the species.
15.02.2026 03:37 👍 4 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
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From cigarette-smoking orangutans to lavender for lions: Melbourne Zoo’s dark history gives way to progressive animal care Tackling the tension between promoting conservation, keeping animals in captivity and its heavy history, the zoo has been reshaped around environmental awareness
15.02.2026 00:28 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Bristol Zoo gorillas relocated to their new African enclosure All eight gorillas have now been moved to their new, larger home at the Bristol Zoo Project.
13.02.2026 06:16 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Oregon primate center to negotiate transition to sanctuary The board of directors at Oregon Health & Science University, which runs the primate center, voted unanimously for the move.
10.02.2026 00:58 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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Orphaned Baby Orangutan Rescued from Captivity | Earth.Org In December, The Orangutan Project rescued Jack and transferred him to their BORA Rescue Centre in East Borne, Indonesia.
09.02.2026 21:35 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Orangutans nap to make up for lost sleep, new study reveals Anybody who has ever struggled to get enough sleep knows just how much in life can interfere with our rest, and just how detrimental this can be to our health and happiness. Researchers from the Max P...
26.06.2025 22:29 👍 13 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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"22% of US men believe they could beat a chimpanzee in a fight" – Here’s how humans actually stack up against the world’s 10 strongest primates | Discover Wildlife Discover the strongest primates on the planet…
08.02.2026 08:26 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Risk-taking comes earlier in chimpanzees than in humans, study finds Chimpanzees appear to be the biggest daredevils when they’re infants. Humans tend to take more chances and put themselves in the most danger in adolescence, so the expectation has been that chimpanzee...
07.02.2026 22:05 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Do apes have an imagination? A new study suggests Kanzi the bonobo did This famous ape may have understood pretend actions—suggesting he had the capacity to imagine
06.02.2026 05:55 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Continuous Audio‐Visual Sensor Monitoring Is More Effective Than Human Observers for Detecting Moor Macaques Camera traps and PAM outperformed human transects in detecting moor macaques: sensors overcame point transect detectability after 2 days survey. Combining both audio-visual methods achieved highest d...
04.02.2026 09:42 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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Monkey World in Dorset welcomes pet primate legislation The new legislation requires new and existing private primate keepers to hold a licence.
03.02.2026 06:54 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Brian Villmoare | Origins of Homo, African Fieldwork, and Cranial Evolution
Brian Villmoare | Origins of Homo, African Fieldwork, and Cranial Evolution YouTube video by Our Primate Past

From the origins of Homo to fossil fieldwork in Africa, Dr Brian Villmoare explains how new discoveries are reshaping human evolution. Plus: where H. naledi and H. floresiensis fit in the hominin tree, best practices for fossil access, and whether Neanderthals and humans are the same species.

02.02.2026 10:13 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Deep in the Amazon, I discovered this monkey’s ingenious survival tactic The red-nosed cuxiu monkey is like no other on the planet.
02.02.2026 06:39 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Spider monkeys found to share ‘insider knowledge’ to help locate best food Researchers observed the primates switching social groups and passing information on where to find the ripest fruit
26.01.2026 10:48 👍 10 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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For two of the world’s most at-risk primates, threats abound and the future looks grim Between Nigeria’s Cross River and Cameroon’s Sanaga River lies one of West Africa’s largest remaining blocks of intact rainforest. Noisy groups of Preuss’s red colobus monkeys (Piliocolobus preussi) m...
25.01.2026 21:43 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Matthew Borths | First Monkeys, Lemur Origins and North American Primates
Matthew Borths | First Monkeys, Lemur Origins and North American Primates YouTube video by Our Primate Past
25.01.2026 06:51 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Indonesia takes action against mining firms after floods devastate population of world’s rarest ape Conservationists hail the ‘desperately needed’ measures and urge greater protection after up to 11% of endangered Tapanuli orangutans wiped out

Indonesia takes action against mining firms after floods devastate population of world’s rarest ape

25.01.2026 02:01 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Robert D. Martin | Primate Origins, Brain Evolution, and Evolutionary Medicine
Robert D. Martin | Primate Origins, Brain Evolution, and Evolutionary Medicine YouTube video by Our Primate Past
09.09.2025 08:51 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Early primates evolved in cold climates, not tropical jungles Early primates evolved in cold North American climates 66 million years ago, enduring freezing winters before migrating to tropics.
22.08.2025 22:27 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Aye-ayes: The strange nocturnal lemurs with long, creepy fingers Aye-ayes are remarkable thanks to their extra-long, bony middle fingers, which they use to locate grubs and pick their noses.
03.08.2025 03:08 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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Born Free Foundation urges zoo boycott over great ape captivity The charity calls on UK zoos, including Chester and Blackpool, to phase out the keeping of primates.
01.08.2025 21:54 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Orangutans make up for lost sleep with daytime naps, study finds When it comes to sleeping, few animals are as fastidious as orangutans. Each evening, as twilight approaches, the tree-dwelling great apes meticulously weave a cup-shaped nest out of branches, twigs a...
24.07.2025 23:12 👍 9 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Super exciting work on rhythm in chimpanzee drumming!! with very interesting implications for the origins of music!

21.07.2025 11:52 👍 9 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Chimpanzees Use Rhythmic Drumming To Communicate Across Forests Chimpanzees drum rhythmically, suggesting the roots of human musicality may predate our species. New research by cognitive scientists and evolutionary biologists has found that chimpanzees drum rhythm...
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