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Photo of the Day: Shadows
Photographer caption: This female gorilla peered out at me from the protective veil of the impenetrable forest, ready to retreat to safety if need be.
Photo by Harry Skeggs (London, United Kingdom); Uganda
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The beautiful eyes of Regis!
After retiring hundreds of research chimpanzees in 2013, the National Institutes of Health says 50 remaining chimps will no longer be used for medical studies.
Jane Goodall On How Chimps Treat Their Women
“Female chimps are very definitely the subordinate species. the males dominate and male can actually force a female to follow him on what we call a ‘consort trip,’ and he can be quite brutal if she won’t follow. There’s a lot of chimp behaviors which we seem to have seem to have somehow brought with us in our long evolution pathway from the time we shared an ape-like, human-like common ancestor 6 million years ago.”
Read the rest of our interview with Jane Goodall here
Image: Hugo Van Lawick/National Geographic
Tomorrow is #GreatApesGivingDay Please consider helping the Fauna chimpanzees during this wonderful event! http://arcus.link/fs
La journée #GreatApesGivingDay a lieu demain! Que diriez-vous de venir en aide aux chimpanzés du sanctuaire Fauna? http://arcus.link/fs
CNN's David McKenzie reports on orphaned gorillas being raised amid Congo's chaos.
That's what researchers found when they gave chimps a device that appeared to work like an oven. The findings add to the argument that our ancestors began cooking soon after learning to control fire.
British anthropologist Dr. Jane Goodall shows Dr. M. Sanjayan how similar our body language is to a chimpanzee.
See more with Dr. Jane Goodall on EARTH A New Wild.
[Airing Wednesdays in Feb. on PBS. Airing internationally in Feb. on Nat Geo Wild]
Pioneering scientist Jane Goodall made a special appearance on tonight’s EARTH A New Wild premiere! You can stream the first two episodes online starting tomorrow.
Photo of the Day: Safe in Mother’s Arms
Photo by Tom Gillespie (Trinity, North Carolina, USA); Asheboro, North Carolina, USA
Researchers eavesdropping on wild chimpanzees determined that the primates communicate about at least two things: their favorite yummy fruits, and the trees where these fruits can be found.
Of particular interest to the chimps is the size of trees bearing the fruits that they relish most, such that the chimps yell out that information, according to a new study published in the journal Animal Behaviour.
The study is the first to find that information about tree size and available fruit amounts are included in chimp calls, in addition to assessments about food quality.
"Chimpanzees definitely have a very complex communication system that includes a variety of vocalizations, but also facial expressions and gestures," project leader Ammie Kalan of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology told Discovery News.
"How much it resembles human language is still a matter of debate," she added, "but at the very least, research shows that chimpanzees use vocalizations in a sophisticated manner, taking into account their social and environmental surroundings."
Kalan and colleagues Roger Mundry and Christophe Boesch spent over 750 hours observing chimps and analyzing their food calls in the Ivory Coast's Taï Forest. The Wild Chimpanzee Foundation in West Africa is working hard to try and protect this population of chimps, which is one of the last wild populations of our primate cousins.
The researchers found that higher pitched calls were produced when the chimps encountered fruits from Nauclea trees. Smaller trees elicited still higher pitched calls, while calls associated with bigger trees with more fruit were lower in pitch.
In short, the chimps seem to "talk" a lot about Nauclea fruits!
"I never tried these fruits myself, but they do smell very good in the forest," Kalan said. "They are also quite big and easy to ingest, and we also know that they have a high energy content, which is important for wild animals."
In what may be a first, an appeals court in Argentina has recognized a nonhuman as having basic legal rights. A Buenos Aires judge ruled in favor of advocates who are calling for more freedom for a 28-year-old orangutan who was born in a zoo.
The advocacy group filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus on the orangutan’s behalf, which would require proof of a justified detention.
Wired reports: “On Friday, an appeals court declared that Sandra, who is owned by the Buenos Aires Zoo, is a ‘non-human person’ who has been wrongfully deprived of her freedom.”
In the ruling that was officially published Monday, the court says that by following a dynamic interpretation, “it is necessary to recognize that the animal is subject to rights, and should be protected,” the AP says.
Sandra was born in a zoo in Germany and sent to Argentina 20 years ago. An animal rights group argued that she had been wrongfully forced into a life of incarceration. The group now wants Sandra to be transferred to a sanctuary.
Orangutan Declared To Have Basic Legal Rights In Argentina
Photo credit: Juan Mabromata/AFP/Getty Images
Rachel has a good view of the Fauna grounds. Rachel admire la belle vue chez Fauna. #faunachimps #roomwithaview #rachel #chimpanzee #caregiverpics
"Ok guys, I think it’s time to go home now…" -Rachel “Je crois qu’il est l’heure de partir les amis…” -Rachel #faunafoundation #rachel #chimpanzee #slumberparty #sanctuary
Jane Goodall, the primatologist-turned-activist, made revolutionary discoveries about chimpanzees that forever changed our understanding of our closest genetic relatives. Her work redefined our understanding of chimpanzees and, in doing so, upending long-held beliefs about humans and the rest of the animal kingdom—while catapulting her to international fame. She is arguably the most famous female scientist in history, revered as much for her work as for inspiring generations of girls and women.
See more pictures and get the story at Newsweek.com
Court could decide if chimpanzees are legal persons Activists seek to have Tommy’s ‘personhood’ declared so as to free him from captivity and place him in a sanctuary that resembles a natural environment.
Tumblr Tuesday: Monkeys!
Fauna Chimps The Fauna Foundation is Canada’s only chimpanzee sanctuary and it serves vegan sweet potato poutine to its heartbreakingly sensitive guests. We held and petted a Capuchin monkey this weekend. It reached out its tiny hand and wrapped it around one of our fingers.
An Unnatural History Possibly the world’s only collection of vintage monkey and ape photographs, some of which are of Capuchin monkeys, the kind that we held and petted this weekend. We cried three times afterward, moved by the experience itself and dizzy over the fact that our life had led to this. An Unnatural History is definitely Tumblr’s best source for monkeys hanging out with dogs.
Monkeys in Art History Could this diverse selection of monkey-centric art actually be the work of a single, spectacularly talented primate? We hadn’t considered the possibility until we saw our own reflection in the eyes of a Capuchin monkey this weekend. An ageless wisdom was writ into its expression, and in that moment our two species felt closer than we had ever thought possible.
Primatography Photos by a primatologist, which is something you’ll wish you majored in after holding and petting a Capuchin monkey. We majored in Classics and assumed we would live a solitary life of the mind. Children were never a part of this picture…but to hold this fragile life in our hands, we were suddenly filled with a love too big for one heart to contain. Primatography includes special bonus shots of sloths and other mammals.
Respectez ce Singeot A whole lot of beautiful monkeys and a little bit of the elusive Werner Herzog. Even now, thinking about that Capuchin monkey has our eyes once again filling with tears.
Photo by njwight via faunachimps
Thank-you tumblr staff for choosing the photo of Tatu and the Fauna blog for Tumblr Tuesday! (Of course, we know you are joking about holding that little capuchin…)
WWF scores ‘major conservation win’ in gorilla haven A British oil company has agreed to stop exploring for petroleum in Virunga, the oldest national park in Africa and home to about 25 percent of Earth’s critically endangered mountain gorilla population.
