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Freshwater biodiversity receives less conservation attention, especially in Nigeria.
In many animals, including humans, adverse events in youth have lasting negative health effects over the life span. But new research suggests something different is going on in mountain gorillas.
Orangutans, gorillas and chimpanzees seem to enjoy the buzz of getting dizzy.
Most of us have heard of the dangers of deforestation but there are other more subtle ways that human beings can endanger monkeys, apes and lemurs.
Friendships between these two very different primates likely outlasted your promise to be best buds forever with your school classmates.
Cameroon’s Anglophone crisis could escalate into a complex disaster emergency with dire environmental consequences.
Hollywood loves a good monster battle, and where better to turn for inspiration than the animal kingdom? Traits from real animals can provide clues about the fighting prowess of Kong and Godzilla.
People can still learn a great deal about these mammals while keeping a safe distance.
Surveys are likely to have missed multiple groups and individuals due to differences in survey techniques.
Male gorillas who spend more time with infants are expected to sire about 5 times more babies.
Good zoos should be treated like they treat their animals. That means not beating them over the odd mishap.
Realizing that others’ minds hold different thoughts, feelings and knowledge than your own was thought to be something only people could do. But evidence is accumulating that apes, too, have ‘theory of mind.’
The shooting death of Harambe the gorilla has once again raised concern for the well-being of zoo animals. But animals in zoos may be fated by the very institution we have created to protect them.
The death of Harambe the gorilla has sparked outrage and raised questions over the adequacy of zoos, but protecting some animals through legal personhood is flawed and dangerous, says legal scholar.
We can’t blame a gorilla for looking after its territory. But we can ask how a child managed to get into the enclosure in the first place.
The fortunes of the world’s remaining wild gorillas is linked to prosperity in the places where they live - hence the high price of tourist permits. But with economic development comes economic threats too.
Sniffer dogs are great at finding gorillas in thick forest – but it comes at a price.
There is a side to the Ebola crisis that, perhaps understandably, has received little media attention: the threat it poses to our nearest cousins, the great apes of Africa. At this moment in time Ebola…
Infectious disease has joined poaching and habitat loss as a major threat to the survival of African apes. Although vaccinations…
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