NEWS AND COMMENT/OPINION: In my view, this is a terrible example of how humankind has totally screwed up its relationship with animals. In this instance two parties, Sri Lanka and China, are the miscreants. They are the bad boys. Sri Lanka has got into a terrible debt with China. But then China likes to loan …
Hardly any words to add to this. All I know is that it is in Asia. PETA got hold of the video. And it is like watching hell on earth and humans God bless them created it. What happened to the human race? It’s no wonder many people prefer animals to people. I think I’m …
A study with monkeys, two species of which had opposable thumbs while the third didn’t, indicated to the researchers “the intriguing possibility that an individual’s inherent physical capability heavily influences their perception, their memory of what they think they saw and their ability to predict manual movements of those around them.” The study tells us …
It is disturbing for the following reasons: It highlights a terrible breakdown in the human-to-animal relationship. It tells us that monkeys in urban environments in India are learning bad behavior from humans or are aggrieved by human behaviour as some believe that they steal dogs to kill them in retaliation for dogs killing their young. …
The video is cute. They look like mini humans hugging and on one occasion passionately kissing each other. It is hard to ignore the conclusion that the origins of the human hug and kiss as a greeting behaviour is here in our ancestral cousins, the monkeys (primates). However, we are not descended from monkeys. We …
Monkeys hug and kiss on meeting. Looks like our behavioural origins. Read More »
He is having fun. There can’t be any other reason. He is using his inherited skills, which are awesome, just for the hell of it and I for one am mightily impressed. Or perhaps they knew they were being filmed and decided to show off? A remote possibility I believe. On the internet, there …
Monkey in India has fun doing walking handstand along 30-yard wall Read More »
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has declared that the name of a disease should avoid “causing offence to any cultural, social, national, regional, professional or ethnic groups, and minimise any negative impact on trade, travel, tourism or animal welfare”. It is the last item which interests me and I will mention three diseases unfairly named …
In the first case of its kind, scientists have reported on a couple living on Staten Island, New York City, who gave their dog monkeypox by sleeping with the companion animal. It is reported in the Lancet medical journal. It concerns a couple of gay guys aged 44 and 27 who, it is reported, are …
Currently (see base of page), provided you have a licence from your local authority as specified by the Dangerous Wild Animals Act 1976 it is legal to own a monkey in the UK. You won’t need a licence for all species of monkey as specified under the schedule to The Dangerous Wild Animals Act 1976 …
Provided you believe in human evolution from primates as most people do, it seems pretty certain that humans have inherited their love of alcohol from their primate ancestors who gorged on fruit containing alcohol. This is the conclusion of a study by Christina Campbell and of a book written by evolutionary physiologist Robert Dudley: The …
Humans inherited their love of booze from their primate ancestors Read More »
NEWS AND COMMENT- LOPBURI, THAILAND: In echoes of a prequel to the well-known film the Planet of the Apes the macaque monkeys of Lopburi in Thailand have broken out of their temple and are causing mayhem in the town, forming gangs and fighting over territory all as a result of Covid-19 placing restrictions on tourism. …
Sugar-mad monkeys of Thailand take over. Echoes of Planet of the Apes. Read More »
NEWS AND COMMENT-MAHARASHTRA, INDIA: In Majalgaon and Lavul village in the state of Maharashtra, India, enraged monkeys are taking revenge on the street dogs by carrying them to the top of trees and buildings and throwing them off to their deaths. And if people try to intervene, they attack them. It looks like the primates …
Planet of the Apes NOW! Enraged monkeys kill 250 dogs and attack people Read More »
“The western pygmy marmoset (Cebuella pygmaea) is a marmoset species, a very small New World monkey found in the northwestern Amazon Rainforest in Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru.” – Wikipedia. The lifespan is said to be about 12 years and they can make good pets with patience! They are still primates and not dogs or …
World’s smallest monkey – Pygmy Marmoset, Western Thailand Read More »
This is shocking really. It is sad. Surely this is a breakdown in the human-animal relationship? It was brought on by the Covid pandemic as there are no tourists to feed the monkeys and so they starve. Then there is a mad rush to a source of food when it appears.
Dr. Jacob Dunn of Anglia Ruskin University, the co-author of a study on red-handed tamarins, published in the journal Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, discovered that when monkeys of this species are spotted in the territory of a rival gang, they speak like their rivals to avoid a bloody turf war. He said: “They’re are saying …
Red-handed tamarins speak like their rivals to avoid conflict Read More »
