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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 […]
Posted in: would you believe?!
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 […]
Posted in: A new beginning.....
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 […]
Posted in: Branching out
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 […]
Posted in: would you believe?!
To boldly go where no primate has been before
May 28, 2011
Exactly 52 years ago today mankind decided to boldly go where no man had been before. Except it wasn’t man who embarked on this mission but his nearest cousin. During the 1950’s astronauts still hadn’t travelled beyond the earth’s atmosphere. There were concerns among scientists about the effects of prolonged weightlessness; and so began the […]
Posted in: A tribute
It’s not just me, monkeys have regrets too
May 27, 2011
Last night I went to bed without uttering a word to The Northerner, a combination of being very grumpy and very tipsy after a lot of wine and a really stressful day at work – not my most attractive qualities. This morning my little black cloud has lifted and he was brave enough to suggest […]
Posted in: up close and personal
What would you really like to ask Sir David Attenborough?…..
May 26, 2011
…..Probably a ton of stuff, right? Well now you can. This afternoon I got a rather nice email from somebody who wants my help and in fact yours too. He’s working alongside the cable channel, Eden TV and he’s asked me, if I would ask you and if you would ask anyone you know, if […]
Posted in: up close and personal
Getting to grips with life in Dublin
May 25, 2011
Isn’t this such a great picture?! It was emailed over to me by my Irish friend BQ. It’s how I look when my head hits the pillow after a busy news day. This is two month old Kituba, who has only just been named officially by Dublin Zoo. For the first two weeks after his […]
Posted in: A new beginning.....
Cargo Cruelty
May 22, 2011
Security checks at most airports around the world remain stringent. We all known the drill: no aerosols; sharp objects; liquids more than 100ml and definitely no explosives. I once had my eye-lash curlers confiscated from my hand luggage before boarding a flight – security were clearly concerned I might give a potential hijacker a makeover. […]
Posted in: Captivity
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