A new strain of the virus that causes AIDS has been discovered in a woman from the African nation of Cameroon. It differs from the three known strains of human immunodeficiency virus and appears to be closely related to a form of simian virus

He has more facial hair than Salman Rushdie, more caustic opinions than Martin Amis and more chance of lifting the 2009 Man Booker Prize than a host of famous writers. He is also a chimpanzee. Me Cheeta, The Autobiography is the stand-out title on

Chimps, Like Humans, Focus On Faces - Science Daily
Masaki Tomonaga and Tomoko Imura from the Primate Research Institute at Kyoto University, Japan, tested the effects of a series of different images on chimps’ reaction times. Tomonaga said, “It is well known that faces are processed in a different

If Me Cheeta wins Booker, it would make monkeys of judges, says author - Times Online
When the Man Booker Prize longlist was announced this week, one book stood out Me Cheeta , a comic debut novel posing as a tell-all memoir of the Hollywood Golden Age by the chimpanzee from the Tarzan films. According to Ion Trewin, the literary

An exhibit of streams, dams, earth mounds and dens houses male Mexican gray wolves. See dominant male gorillas JoJo and Kwan, their families and two groups of chimpanzees in an exhibit space that boasts three outdoor habitats for a total of 24 apes

Dogs Get Gestures as Well as Toddlers - Discovery News
July 13, 2009 — Dogs possess a two-year-old child’s capacity to understand human pointing gestures, with dogs requiring next to zero learning time to figure out the visual communication, according to two recent studies. The comparison with kids