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ancient monkey
May. 19th, 2009 06:56 pmWow! Meet Ida.
"New" fossil sheds light on earliest primates.
I wants more userpicses! I wantsss them!
"New" fossil sheds light on earliest primates.
I wants more userpicses! I wantsss them!
Medieval monkey fighting recs
May. 9th, 2008 09:51 amFrom the wonderful Got Medieval, take a look at these pics of valiant and sophisticated monkeys fighting off a besieging army of incompetent foxes.
There's also a link to a monkey poop throwing game but I'm too grown up to try it out. I have marking to do.
There's also a link to a monkey poop throwing game but I'm too grown up to try it out. I have marking to do.
scientists make orangutans giggle
Jan. 3rd, 2008 10:04 amDr Marina Davila Ross, from the University of Portsmouth and Professor Elke Zimmermann at the University of Veterinary Medicine in Hanover, Germany, studied the play behaviour of 25 orang-utans aged between two and 12 at four primate centres around the world.
Dr Davila Ross commented: "What is clear now is the building blocks of positive emotional contagion and empathy that refer to rapid involuntary facial mimicry in humans evolved prior to humankind."
Dr Davila Ross commented: "What is clear now is the building blocks of positive emotional contagion and empathy that refer to rapid involuntary facial mimicry in humans evolved prior to humankind."
Hard to keep a straight face, isn't it?
News story and giggling orang pic here.
Bananas etc
Sep. 12th, 2007 06:31 pmI just read a report here about female chimps trading sex for fruit:
Gives a whole new slant to the 'get 5 a day' campaign.
Oh dear. This was going to be such a nice, clean, wholesome journal...
Gives a whole new slant to the 'get 5 a day' campaign.
Oh dear. This was going to be such a nice, clean, wholesome journal...
