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Archive for April, 2007

Shooting the Rapids

Monday, April 30th, 2007


Egypt Today - The Ngamba Island Chimp Sanctuary was set up by a number of organizations including the Born Free Foundation and the Jane Goodall Institute to provide a home for chimpanzees rescued from the illegal pet trade or orphaned by the steadily growing bush

Mice new frontier in HIV study
Dallas Voice - Until now, HIV research involving laboratory animals has focused almost exclusively on rhesus monkeys. That s because aside from chimpanzees, an endangered species, researchers have been unable to infect other animals with anything close to the

Dorgan, Conrad votes on war stupid
Bismarck Tribune - Sen.Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., was a co-sponsor of Senate Joint Resolution 9, which failed by Senate vote on March 13. The resolution was nonbinding and had absolutely no force of law. The most salient portion of the resolution was Section 2b, stating,

The evolution of sex roles

Thursday, April 26th, 2007


Baltimore Sun - Did primitive peoples form relationships, the males playing father to sons and daughters, or did they act more like our chimpanzee and gorilla cousins - promiscuous, violent, with males fighting over the females? Groping toward a fuller understanding

Fertility planning makes male chimps fight

Monday, April 16th, 2007


MSNBC - For instance, nearly all chimpanzee sex takes place when females are at the most fertile points of their menstrual cycles. Curiously, females are known to sync up their menstrual cycles and how fertile they are in a number of primate species
Source: www.msnbc.msn.com

Pair of lice lost or parasites regained: the evolutionary history of
BioMed Central - The parasitic sucking lice of primates are known to have undergone at least 25 million years of coevolution with their hosts. For example, chimpanzee lice and human head/body lice last shared a common ancestor roughly six million years ago, a
Source: www.biomedcentral.com

Gorillas (and chimps) in their midst
Roanoke Times - After a visit to a chimpanzee sanctuary on Lake Victoria, the group headed west to the Kibale forest for two days with wild chimpanzees. That experience was amazing, said the Bosens, two in a group of seven tourists. Trekking into the jungle with a
Source: www.roanoke.com

 


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