Jul 01 2008
From Telegraph:
The Indian girl has become virtually inseparable from an Indian Langur named Ramu which her parents adopted when an attack by stray dogs left him orphaned.
Parents Anil and Rashmi Mehta now see Ramu as the perfect addition to their family.
“Ramu has made all the difference to our family, I feel as if he is part of my life like Diksha,” says Mrs Mehta from their home in Bharauch town in the north-western Gujarat state.
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Jun 19 2008
The Great Ape Trust in Iowa is returning to normal after the floods which caused so much disruption.
The ape homes are now clean and dry after a heroic effort by staff.
Jun 18 2008
From the Guardian:
British psychologists working in the forests of western Uganda have recorded the first evidence of sexual politics influencing the mating calls of our closest primate ancestors.
Researchers spent 10 months in the Budongo forest observing and recording calls from a community of 78 chimpanzees, only eight of whom were adult males.
They found that chimpanzees varied wildly in the extent of their calls during mating, but noticed a pattern that had never been spotted before. Audio recordings revealed that females were more vocal during sex if there were other high-ranking males around, but that they toned the noise down significantly when aggressive females were nearby.
The findings suggest that chimpanzees are able to use their calls for more complex social communication than previously thought.
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Jun 13 2008
The Great Ape trust of Iowa has been caught up in the floods. Fortunately, all the apes are safe in their well-designed buildings. All non-essential personnel have been evacuated.
The trust has contingency plans to evacuate the apes to zoos temporarily in the event of an emergency.
It looks like the worst is over, and things are beginning to return to normal. It’ll take a while to clean up the damage though.
May 28 2008
From Times Online:
A television star and her footballer boyfriend have adopted a chimpanzee called Bryan in Dorset, saving him from working as a beach photographer’s toothless prop in Mexico.
Gemma Atkinson, an actor in daytime soap Hollyoaks, and Darren Bent, who plays football for Wigan Athletic, adopted five-year-old Bryan after watching the primate’s plight on television.
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May 27 2008
From Dorset Echo:
ACTRESS Gemma Atkinson and footballer Marcus Bent paid a visit to Monkey World in Bovington to support its adoption campaign.
Former Hollyoaks star Gemma is famous for taking part in the ITV show I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here and will appear in the Brit-flick Boogie Woogie to be released in August.
She and her boyfriend Marcus, 30, a Wigan Athletic footballer, contacted Monkey World last month after seeing Monkey Life - the Channel Five soap opera about the lives of the apes at the primate rescue centre. The couple visited the centre to officially adopt Bryan, one of the stars of Monkey Life series two.
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May 27 2008
From Dorset Echo:
YEAR 2 pupils from Wool CE First School have been getting involved in some monkey business for their latest class project.
The children spent the day at nearby Monkey World as part of a project to help feed the primates at the centre.
The pupils brought with them giant papier maché nuts’ they had made themselves in class, which staff at the centre then filled with food for the monkeys.
The children got a close-up view as keeper Mike Colbourne and section head Lee Butler gave the nuts to the centre’s capuchin monkeys, which had recently been rescued from a laboratory in Chile.
They looked on as the monkeys ripped the nuts open to get at the treats inside, replicating skills that they would use to find food in the wild.
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May 20 2008
This video of Sally grooming Rodders was recorded by our own forum member, Kinglee.
Kinglee’s description:
Picture this, Sally and Rodders on quite a cold day in early March. It was just before Jeremy comes down to give the youngsters their tea so Sally was at the window watching and waiting. She must have thought that Rodders looked a bit scruffy to eat tea and, even though he was ‘playing’ with us through the window, she got hold of him quite firmly and began to groom him. Look at his little face – bless.
May 16 2008
Two great videos from the Dorset Echo:
Baby Bart - BART the six month old chimp who is melting the hearts of Monkey World visitors.
Monkey Life -DR ALISON CRONIN of Monkey World talks to the Daily Echo about the new series of Monkey Life on Channel Five and the tribute programmes, Monkey Business Jim’s Legacy, which ITV will be showing later this year.
May 12 2008
From Daily Mirror:
This cute little woolly monkey will become a TV star tonight - and he’s not doing a PG Tips advert either.
Six-month-old Paulo is featured in a new series of Monkey Life on Five.
He is being hand-reared by Dr Alison Cronin, director of Monkey World, in Wareham, Dorset, where the series is based, after being unable to suckle from his mum.
Oddly, Monkey Life is the favourite TV show of Russell Brand - who has plenty of animal magnetism of his own.
A Five source said: “Russell has visited the centre several times and is always talking about it on his radio show. As well as being cute, there is a decent story to go with the monkeying around.”
In addition to the woolly monkeys, there are chimps, gibbons and orangutans. The show is on every weekday for a month and is guaranteed to make you go aaah…