Facebook fury as ‘Monkey Life’ faces TV axe
Facebook fans of a British TV show following the antics of monkeys and apes at a primate rescue centre have launched an online campaign to save the show from the axe. Read More »
Chimpanzees on the loose at Chester Zoo
Chester Zoo in northern England was evacuated Sunday after a number of chimpanzees broke out of their island enclosure. Read More »
Chimps’ prodigious memories for fruit trees revealed
Clever chimpanzees memorise the precise locations of their favourite fruit trees amid forests of thousands of similar trees and even remember when each tree is most likely to be in season, new research has shown. Read More »
Tickling experiments prove apes can laugh
Researchers believe they may have discovered the origins of human laughter after conducting tickling experiments on young apes including bonobos, gorillas, orang-utans and chimpanzees. Read More »
Animal rights, animal wrongs: Mammals ‘have morals’
Morality may not be a uniquely human trait according to recent research suggesting mammals as varied as wolves, primates, mice, bats and whales know the difference between right and wrong. Read More »
Dogs out-smart chimps in Harvard exams
A university laboratory dedicated to the study of canine cognition has established that dogs may actually be smarter than chimpanzees – at least when it comes to knowing the difference between one bucket and another. Read More »
Chimpanzees sell sex for meat
Female chimpanzees copulate more frequently with male apes who share their meat with them, researchers have discovered in a study which some believe could hold important lessons for our understanding of how early human societies evolved. Read More »
World’s most famous chimpanzee exposed as imposter
A Hollywood chimpanzee famed for his supposed appearances alongside Johnny Weissmuller in the 1930s “Tarzan” movies and recognised by the Guinness Book of Records as the world’s oldest living primate is almost certainly an imposter, research suggests. Read More »
Armed chimpanzees driven wild by taste of honey
Not content with fishing for insects, the resourceful chimpanzees of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Goualougo Triangle have another trick to show off. New Chimpcam footage shows the clever apes bashing in beehives with clubs before gorging on the sweet honey inside. Read More »
Zoogle News: An apology to our readers
Here at Zoogle News, we take our journalistic responsibilities seriously. And like the New York Times admitting that its coverage of the buildup to the war in Iraq was insufficiently rigorous, Zoogle News is not afraid to admit when it gets things wrong. Read More »
