Equal rights for chimps?
According to this article (free registration required) in the New York Times, all great apes (chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans, bonobos, and humans) are so close that none of them could be considered...
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Chimpanzees are intellegent and very similar to humans genetically, and the American AR group Chimpanzee Collaboratory says they deserve the right to... lawyers. In a country known for its interest in...
View ArticleChimps in Uganda take up arms - The Wife Beaters of Kibale
From Time.com: "Until now, devising tools to inflict pain and death seemed to be something only humans did. To be sure, lots of animals use tools. Sea otters employ rocks to crack open shellfish. Crows...
View ArticleHumans littered early
Though early homonids were adept tool makers, the concept of recycling the tools for multiple uses seemed to not hit them yet. A quarry in central India is surrounded by discarded Homo erectus stone...
View ArticleApes still smarter than thought
Two recent articles on the BBC website have pointed to further advancements in the understanding of ape intellegence. Orang-utans, not one of the most social of great apes, still seem to be social...
View ArticleLondon Auction House to Sell Chimp Artwork
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/chimpanzee_artLONDON - Congo the chimpanzee led a brief artistic career and enjoyed little critical success, despite the patronage of his contemporary and fellow abstract...
View Article'Rise of the Planet of the Apes' coming August 5
Rise of the Planet of the Apes hits theaters in the U.S. and Canada on August 5, rejuvenating the earlier series.The plot centers around James Franco as Will Rodman, a scientist developing a cure for...
View ArticleReview: 'Conspiracy of the Planet of the Apes', by Andrew E. C. Gaska.
2011’s Planet of the Apes movie, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, is unusual in that it has no novelized tie-in. Instead, the movie release’s tie-in book is Conspiracy of the Planet of the Apes, an...
View ArticleReview: ‘Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted’ is Furry Jesus
I was in a bad mood all day when I went to see this movie. A real bad mood. I was looking forward to seeing it, however, because I decided it would cheer me up. I wasn't expecting it to be great and...
View ArticleReview: 'Further: Beyond the Threshold', by Chris Roberson
The first line in this science-fiction novel is: “When I woke up, surrounded by talking dog-people, it was clear we’d strayed pretty far from the mission parameters.” (p. v) There are a talking...
View ArticleEqual rights for chimps?
According to this article (free registration required) in the New York Times, all great apes (chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans, bonobos, and humans) are so close that none of them could be considered...
View ArticleChimps are only human
Chimpanzees are intellegent and very similar to humans genetically, and the American AR group Chimpanzee Collaboratory says they deserve the right to... lawyers. In a country known for its interest in...
View ArticleChimps in Uganda take up arms - The Wife Beaters of Kibale
From Time.com: "Until now, devising tools to inflict pain and death seemed to be something only humans did. To be sure, lots of animals use tools. Sea otters employ rocks to crack open shellfish. Crows...
View ArticleHumans littered early
Though early homonids were adept tool makers, the concept of recycling the tools for multiple uses seemed to not hit them yet. A quarry in central India is surrounded by discarded Homo erectus stone...
View ArticleApes still smarter than thought
Two recent articles on the BBC website have pointed to further advancements in the understanding of ape intellegence. Orang-utans, not one of the most social of great apes, still seem to be social...
View ArticleLondon Auction House to Sell Chimp Artwork
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/chimpanzee_artLONDON - Congo the chimpanzee led a brief artistic career and enjoyed little critical success, despite the patronage of his contemporary and fellow abstract...
View Article'Rise of the Planet of the Apes' coming August 5
Rise of the Planet of the Apes hits theaters in the U.S. and Canada on August 5, rejuvenating the earlier series.The plot centers around James Franco as Will Rodman, a scientist developing a cure for...
View ArticleReview: 'Conspiracy of the Planet of the Apes', by Andrew E. C. Gaska.
2011’s Planet of the Apes movie, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, is unusual in that it has no novelized tie-in. Instead, the movie release’s tie-in book is Conspiracy of the Planet of the Apes, an...
View ArticleReview: ‘Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted’ is Furry Jesus
I was in a bad mood all day when I went to see this movie. A real bad mood. I was looking forward to seeing it, however, because I decided it would cheer me up. I wasn't expecting it to be great and...
View ArticleReview: 'Further: Beyond the Threshold', by Chris Roberson
The first line in this science-fiction novel is: “When I woke up, surrounded by talking dog-people, it was clear we’d strayed pretty far from the mission parameters.” (p. v) There are a talking...
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