Showing posts with label apes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label apes. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Bad hair day

These wild haired primates prove that being a real life gorilla in the mist can wreak havoc with your hairdo.

Looking in desperate need of some frizz-ease, the grizzled gorillas have the local weather to thank for their curly look.

Aren't they cute?





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Monday, January 17, 2011

Today's awwwwwww


Photo: Kevin Zhao / Reuters

Thursday, January 6, 2011

Today's awwwwwww


Photo:Marian Brickner / Zuma Press

Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Today's awwww



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Picture: BARCROFT MEDIA

Thursday, June 11, 2009

Fursday Fun

Photograph: Theo Allofs/Corbis

Friday, June 5, 2009

What happens if you tickle a gorilla?

By tickling young gorillas, chimpanzees, bonobos, and orangutans, researchers say they learned that all great apes laugh.

Their findings suggest we inherited our own ability to laugh from the last common ancestor from which humans and great apes evolved, which lived 10 to 16 million years ago.

Primatologist and psychologist Marina Davila Ross of the U.K.'s University of Portsmouth led a team that tickled the necks, feet, palms, and armpits of infant and juvenile apes as well as human babies. The team recorded more than 800 of the resulting giggles and guffaws.

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(via Boing Boing)

Smile, it's Friday!


Zainal Abd Halim / Reuters

Friday, May 22, 2009

Smile, it's Friday!

Saturday, March 21, 2009

Caution : Possible cute overdose

The following photos are from the Daily Mail's story about the Infant Care Unit at Bukit Merah Lake Town Resort - dubbed Orang-Utan Island - located in the Malaysian jungle. It is a very special hospital because all of its patients are from the endangered Borneo species of orangutans, the Pongo Pygmaeus.











Thursday, March 19, 2009

Today's awwww

Wednesday, March 11, 2009

We'll need breathmints after this ...



Photo: Yoshikazu Tsuno / AFP - Getty Images

Sunday, March 1, 2009

Video: Baby Orangutan adopted by a bulldog

Bulldog Kisses Orangutan


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Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Baby Chimps Given Human Love Are Smarter

Orphaned infant chimpanzees that received attentive, nurturing care from human surrogate mothers were found to be more intellectually advanced than the average human baby when both groups were compared at the age of nine months, according to a new study published in the latest issue of Developmental Psychobiology.

When the chimps were nine months old, they took an IQ test normally used to evaluate human infant development. The chimps who had received responsive care aced the test, even surpassing the scores of average human infants tested at the same age.

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Wednesday, February 4, 2009

Today's awwww