Common Dreams - New Rule: The president can t pardon just one or two turkeys this Thanksgiving. He s got to let them all go. It s probably too much to expect from the man who wanted no child left behind, then vetoed health care for kids. But think of the

New Genetic Lineage Of Ebolavirus Discovered In Great Apes
Medical News Today - The rapid tissue decomposition of the carcasses meant that the search for RNA sequences coding for GP was conclusive for only 6 gorillas and one chimpanzee. Nevertheless, phylogenetic analysis of these was able to show that the virus which had

Zoo officials confident in safety standards
Asheboro Courier-Tribune - The last animal to escape from its habitat at the N.C. Zoo was in 1995. Gillespie said a storm had blown a tree over into the chimpanzee compound and the curious chimp just walked out on the fallen tree. xxx Contact staff writer Mary Anderson at 626

Scoop - S. 1916, the “Chimp Haven is Home Act,” which prohibits the removal of and research on retired research chimpanzees living in Federal sanctuaries; and S.J.Res. 13, which grants the consent of the Congress to the International Emergency Management
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Seattle Times - If you go this weekend, you might still catch one of Central Washington University’s Chimposiums , where researchers with the Chimpanzee and Human Communication Institute teach chimpanzees sign language. Visitors are taught a few signs to communicate

Let the cats, birds fight it out
Aiken Standard - The scientist reasoned that, ecologically speaking, she didn’t belong there and had no business butting into a chimpanzee fracas. Maybe Goodall should have a conversation with James M. Stevenson, who took it upon himself to intervene in the struggle

Homosexuality - a Basic Behavior of the Humans’ Ancestors
Softpedia - In the case of Bonobo, the dwarf chimpanzee, the closest living species to humans, the community model is based on female solidarity and good relationships between the two sexes. Sex is at the basis of their social relationships and the weakest