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Wildlife Conservation Society discovers 'Planet of the Apes'

harminka — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 08:35:33 -0500

The world's population of critically endangered western lowland gorillas received a huge boost today when the Wildlife Conservation Society released a census showing massive numbers of these secretive great apes alive and well in the Republic of Congo.

Great apes endangered by human viruses

harminka — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 04:05:57 -0600

A new study published in the journal Current Biology by researchers of the Robert Koch Institute (Berlin), the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (Leipzig) and the Centre Suisse des Recherches Scientifiques (Ivory Coast) confirms the disease threat, finding the first direct evidence of virus transmission from humans to wild apes.

Walking tall to protect species

harminka — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 10:37:14 -0600

The transition from apes to humans may have been partially triggered by the need to stand on two legs, in order to safely carry heavier babies. This theory1 of species evolution presented by Lia Amaral from the University of São Paulo in Brazil has just been published online in Springer’s journal, Naturwissenschaften.

World's most endangered gorilla fights back

harminka — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 06:19:17 -0600

In the wake of a study that documented for the first time the use of weaponry by Cross River gorillas to ward off threats by humans, the Wildlife Conservation Society announced today new field surveys to better protect this most endangered great ape.

Extinction threat growing for mankind's closest living relatives

harminka — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 07:54:46 -0500

Mankind’s closest living relatives – the world’s apes, monkeys, lemurs and other primates – are under unprecedented threat from destruction of tropical forests, illegal wildlife trade and commercial bushmeat hunting, with 29 percent of all species in danger of going extinct, according to a new report by the Primate Specialist Group of IUCN’s Species Survival Commission (SSC) and the International Primatological Society (IPS), in collaboration with Conservation International (CI).

An early ape shows its hand

harminka — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 01:50:55 -0500

Fossils often have provided important insights into the evolution of humans and our ancestors. Even small fossils, such as bones from the hand or foot can tell us much about our ancestor’s and their behavior. Such may be the case with an ape that lived more than nine million years ago.

Ancient ape ruled out of man's ancestral line

harminka — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 11:16:43 -0600