NEWS AND COMMENT-INDONESIA: The video has gone viral as you might expect. In an attempt to make an interesting video for his social media account, Hasanal Arifin, decided to jump over the outer barrier around a cage containing an orangutan. He wanted to get close …
NEWS AND COMMENT: Researchers have discovered that chimpanzees in Gabon, Africa, treat each other with the fluid inside an unknown insect (haemolymph) when they have suffered a wound which causes a cut. It is believed that this fluid contains something which helps to alleviate discomfort …
What is cumulative culture? The best ways to describe it is to refer to the way that chimpanzees from Bossou, Guinea, have learned to crack open a nut by placing it on a large stone and then hitting it with a smaller stone. Not all …
NEWS AND COMMENT-ANTWERP, BELGIUM: This is a story which turns on the question as to whether a human can have a genuine love affair with an animal. Some people might not believe that it is possible. I’ve seen it before so it is possible. Although …
This is Ndakasi with her caretaker and lifelong friend Andre Bauma, a park ranger who cared for her. I don’t know but this might be the moment when Ndakasi died in the arms of Bauma. We are not told that but it seems likely or …
The picture on this page shows a baboon carrying her long dead infant. It is unsettling but it is also the process of grieving. In this respect apes are very similar to people. Although we don’t know whether primates can understand that all animals including …
Unquestionably, non-human animals do, indeed, have culture. It is another example of an erosion of the concept of human exceptionalism. Humans like to think that they are special and different to animals but I am afraid that in many ways they are not. As The …
We know that humans adopt children through adoption services because their parents are unable to look after their own children for whatever reason. It’s a well structured process. But animals do it as well. An unusual story about a female bonobo ape adopting a youngster …
Zoo gorillas should be given the Covid-19 vaccination because scientists have discovered that captive gorillas at a zoo in California have contracted the disease from, they believe, an asymptomatic member of staff. It is the first known instance of the virus spreading to great apes. …
