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Roll up, roll up, place your vote to ban wild animal circuses
June 23, 2011
The idea of a circus leaves me cold for two reasons. The first is a very personal experience and the second, is due to my role as someone who is beginning to appreciate the value and importance of conservation and wildlife. My experience sadly wasn’t a private memory, nope, in true reporter style it was […]
Primal instinct
June 18, 2011
When an explosion at a chemical plant in Louisiana happened on Tuesday, thousands of primates housed just a mile away at the New Iberia Research Centre had nowhere to go. There are more than 7,000 primates (monkeys and chimps) on site. These animals however were one step ahead of their human relatives and knew instinctively […]
Baby killers of the monkey world
June 15, 2011
Cannibalism and infanticide are disturbingly common in nature and in one species of non human primate the females are the worst offenders. But what makes these revelations all the more shocking is that female moustached tamarins are not killing their competitors’ offspring, but their own. The moustached tamarin (Saguinus mystax) can be found in the […]
Is your child smarter than a chimp?
June 9, 2011
Most parents I know take great pride in bragging about how smart their kids are. Is this something they inherit? Or does it boil down to how much effort mummy and daddy put into developing their cognitive skills? Scientists say babies’ sensory organs are not fully developed at birth and need fine tuning, so the early childhood […]
Madagascar’s creatures great and small
June 6, 2011
They say good things come in small packages and one new species recently discovered is so small it weighs the same as just three cups of cereal. A feather-weight among primates, Berthe’s mouse lemur (Microcebus berthae), is 10cm long and weighs around 30g. This primate is so small it even trumps the pygmy marmoset (Cebuella […]
Rise of the Apes
June 5, 2011
This afternoon the Northerner and I took a lovely walk along the river. We started off in Hampton Court and ended up in Kingston. Our afternoon outdoors was sadly short-lived as the heavens opened and we were forced to duck into the cinema. No hardship, we opted for the latest X-men film which was pretty […]
Will we ever know for sure if the Florida Skunk Ape is real?
June 1, 2011
What age were you when you first realised there was no Tooth-Fairy; Santa Claus didn’t visit your home on Christmas Eve and the Easter Bunny was just another money spinner? For as long as I can remember I had always been a precocious child, much to my mother’s embarrassment. At age five I went to […]
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June 28, 2011
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