I think this is a very cool idea and it is based upon the model that animals learn from observation often young learning from their mother’s actions. Dublin Zoo has a 19-year-old orangutan called Mujur who has given birth to a male baby but she …
This picture is, as stated on Reddit, worth a 1000 words and my God it is crushingly sad. Really, I am in despair when I see these sorts of photographs. This primate is politely asking the photographer to unlock the padlock. There is gentleness but …
There is quite a lot of discussion on the Internet about whether companion animals can be gay and looking wider to all other animals it is an interesting thought as to whether they can be ‘gay’ as is the case in humans. Some recent research …
The Times reports on a University of Sheffield article describing research that they have done on using the poop of endangered animals to kill certain bacterial species including superbugs which are resistant to antibiotics and which cause diabetic foot ulcers. Apparently, diabetics can suffer from …
Notice the man below the fallen tree trunk has a blow gun and he wants to dart the orangutan who is a pain in the arse nuisance in the destruction of yet more forest. The world is being denuded and has been for centuries which …
This is not about the human-animal relationship which is the prime topic of this website but about the human-animal and our evolution from the great apes. Scientists at a number of institutions and universities – primarily Texas University and Columbia – have identified the genetic …
This is an interesting development. It is one which demonstrates the intrusion of social media into the “natural world” (Ha ha). We know how people can be addicted to social media videos and postings. It’s so bad that it is affecting the streaming services like …
Chimpanzees and bonobos use dozens of gestures to communicate with each other. They might be a request or an instruction. For example, as you can see in the Infographic below, a scratching movement across a chimpanzee’s torso means “please groom me”. Or a directed push …
China has owned up and declared that two gibbon species living in China are extinct in the wild: the Yunnan lar (white-handed gibbon) and the northern white-cheeked gibbon. The Times reports that their calls were last heard more than a decade ago and the last …
