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Added February 9, 2012

• Primate cognition: Copy that  (Nature; February 8, 2012)

Added February 8, 2012

• Tarsiers Communicate in Secret Speech  (Science; February 7, 2012)
• Ape versus machine: Do primates enjoy computer games?  (BBC; February 8, 2012)
• Pair Bonding with Owl Monkeys  (Monkey Jungle)
• First Sabahan primatologist  (Borneo Post; February 8, 2012)
• UW Study Offers Insight Into Earlier Puberty For Girls  (WISC-TV, Madison, WI; February 7, 2012)

Added February 7, 2012

• Like us, a chimp seemingly can get inside another's head  (MSNBC; February 6, 2012)
• Heavier fines in store for protected monkey feeders  (China Post; February 7, 2012)
• Researchers examine consequences of non-intervention for infectious disease in African great apes  (EurekAlert; February 6, 2012)
• Devoted Denver zookeeper enlists team of doctors to save orangutan's life  (Denver Post; February 6, 2012)
• Clint Eastwood helps reveal secrets of brain evolution  (NewScientist; February 5, 2012)

Added February 3, 2012

• The Stem Cell Debates  (The New Atlantis; 2012)

Added February 2, 2012

• Reflections on the Conservation Value of Research in Gunung Palung National Park, West Kalimantan, Indonesia  (Orangutan Conservancy; January 24, 2012)
• Baboons wreak havoc at Zimbabwe border post  (AFP; January 31, 2012)
• Borneo's orang-utan sanctuary  (News.com.au; January 30, 2012)
• Researchers Rewrite Textbook on Location of Brain's Speech Processing Center  (Georgetown University Medical Center, Office of Communications; January 30, 2012)
• Extended synaptic development may explain our cognitive edge over other primates  (Science Codex; February 1, 2012)
• The Sound of Sterility  (IEEE Spectrum; January 30, 2012)
• Genetic mutations that boost individual's adaptability have greater chances of getting through to X chromosomes  (Physorg; January 30, 2012)
• Gorillas grin 'to reassure friends'  (BBC; January 31, 2012)
• Satellite study reveals critical habitat and corridors for world's rarest gorilla  (EurekAlert; January 31, 2012)
• Preening the History of Primates  (Wired; January 30, 2012)
• A Famous Gorilla Plays The Recorder, And We All May Learn Something  (NPR; February 2, 2012)

Added January 30, 2012

• Gallery of Slow Loris Photos  (Dr Anna Nekaris' little fire face project)
• Slow lorises in a rescue centre grooming each other  (Dr Anna Nekaris' little fire face project; YouTube)
• Slow lorises in a rescue centre searching for a noisy (and very tasty) cicada.  (Dr Anna Nekaris' little fire face project; YouTube)
• Slow Loris Vocalizations  (Dr Anna Nekaris' little fire face project)
• Slow loris chitter and scream  (Dr Anna Nekaris' little fire face project; mp3)
• Slow loris chitter  (Dr Anna Nekaris' little fire face project; mp3)
• Slow loris panting  (Dr Anna Nekaris' little fire face project; mp3)
• Slow loris scream  (Dr Anna Nekaris' little fire face project; mp3)
• Dr Anna Nekaris' little fire face project  (Saving the slow loris via ecology, education & empowerment)
• A question of freedom for chimpanzees who spend lives in research labs  (MSNBC; January 27, 2012)
• Monkey owners flee La. crackdown  (Associated Press; January 30, 2012)
• NIH Success Rate Hits All-time Low  (BioTechniques; January 27, 2012)

Added January 26, 2012

• Supermom Primates Raise Twins  (DiscoveryNews; January 24, 2012)
• Did bonobos actually tame themselves? Scientists find that the African apes evolved to become gentler creatures  (Daily Mail; January 26, 2012)
• Strange endangered primates you may have never heard of  (BBC; January 25, 2012)

Added January 23, 2012

• Borneo tough for red-haired vegans  (ScienceNews; January 14, 2012)
• 'Mama's Boy' Monkeys Score With the Ladies  (Scientific American; January 22, 2012)
• "Extinct" Monkeys With Sideburns Found in Borneo  (National Geographic Daily News; January 20, 2012)

Added January 19, 2012

• Freak washing machine accident boils lab monkey alive  (New Jersey Star-Ledger; January 18, 2012)
• UK lawmaker proposes ban on monkey pets, telling Parliament she's speaking for the speechless  (Washington Post; January 18, 2012)
• Wildlife rescue center welcomes human visitors  (Tico Times; January 20, 2012)
• If I'd had any inkling, I'd have been scared to do it  (NewScientist; January 19, 2012)

Added January 18, 2012

• Exploring life: Jane Goodall's curiosity was obvious at age 4  (Delaware Online; January 18, 2012)
• Supreme Court rules no monkey farm in Puerto Rico  (Caribbean News Now; January 18, 2012)
• Is This the Beginning of the End for Medical Research on Chimps?  (The Atlantic; January 18, 2012)
• Lab Torture or Pets, Dumb Humans Keep Texas Primate Haven Busy  (Bloomberg Businessweek; January 17, 2012)
• Vegetarian orang-utans eat world's cutest animal  (NewScientist; January 17, 2012)

Added January 17, 2012

• Aye aye 'heats up' middle finger  (BBC News; January 17, 2012)
• Most Recent European Great Ape Discovered  (ScienceDaily; January 13, 2012)
• Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund Announces Rwandan National as New Director Karisoke Research Center  (WebWire; January 15, 2012)
• CDC expands 'bush meat' tests for viruses  (Washington Post; January 14, 2012)
• Apes' home reclassified as funding dries up  (Des Moines Register; January 13, 2012)
• More than Just Pretty Faces  (Scientific American; January 16, 2012)
• Toe Fossil Contributes to a Head-Scratcher  (New York Times; January 16, 2012)

Added January 12, 2012

• The Use of Primates in the EU  (AV Magazine; 2011)
• Primates by the Numbers  (AV Magazine; 2011)

Added January 11, 2012

• Study shows early primate had a transitional lemur-like grooming claw  (EurekAlert; January 10, 2012)
• Camera traps snap first ever photo of Myanmar snub-nosed monkey  (Mongabay; January 10, 2012)
• Air Canada hopes to ban transportation of monkeys for laboratory use  (Toronto Star; January 10, 2012)
• Apps for Apes: Engaging Orangutans with iPads  (Scientific American; January 10, 2012)
• Crested macaque monkeys follow friends before family  (BBC News; January 11, 2012)
• Funny Facial Features Tell Monkeys Who's Who  (LiveScience; January 11, 2012)
• Confiscated bushmeat 'poses virus threat'  (BBC News; January 11, 2012)

Added January 10, 2012

• Disgrace: On Marc Hauser  (The Nation; January 9, 2012)
• How lemurs fight climate change  (Mongabay; January 9, 2012)
• Restrictions Loom for Exotic Animals Business  (New York Times; January 10, 2012)

Added January 9, 2012

• Drug starves fat cells in obese monkeys  (CBC News; January 3, 2012)
• Baby monkeys with 6 genomes are a first  (MSNBC; January 5, 2012)
• Monkey vaccine hints at how to stop HIV  (Nature; January 4, 2012)

Added December 21, 2011

• Common Marmoset Care  (University of Stirling)
• Chimpanzees in Biomedical and Behavioral Research: Assessing the Necessity  (Institute of Medicine; December 15, 2011; PDF)

Added December 20, 2011

• Elevation of the Chimp May Reshape Research  (New York Times; December 19, 2011)
• New to Nature No 61: Rhinopithecus strykeri  (Guardian; December 17, 2011)
• Photo essay: Lion-tailed macaques of India's Western Ghats rainforest  (Mongabay; December 19, 2011)
• First Guidelines for Lab Chimps Drawn Up  (LiveScience; December 16, 2011)
• Ngamba Chimp Sanctuary showcases an unusual side of Uganda  (Monsters and Critics; December 20, 2011)
• New chimp rules present research complications  (San Antonio Express-News; December 18, 2011)
• Genes Play Major Role in Primate Social Behavior, Study Finds  (New York Times; December 19, 2011)
• Infinite Stupidity  (Edge; December 15, 2011)

Added December 16, 2011

• "Elvis" monkey discovered in southeast Asia  (CBS News; December 12, 2011)

Added December 15, 2011

• Statement by NIH Director Dr. Francis Collins on the Institute of Medicine report addressing the scientific need for the use of chimpanzees in research  (NIH News; December 15, 2011)
• NIH temporarily bans new chimpanzee research  (Washington Post; December 15, 2011)
• Eroding taboos see lemurs end up on dinner tables  (BBC News; December 14, 2011)
• Drug Wipes Out Deadliest Malaria Parasite Through Starvation  (ScienceBlog; December 15, 2011)
• How Orangutans Survive Potential Starvation  (LiveScience; December 14, 2011)
• Borneo tough for red-haired vegans  (ScienceNews; December 14, 2011)
• Murder in the Elevator  (Psychology Today; December 14, 2011)
• Language, and How to Have a Fair Fight with a Chimpanzee  (Psychology Today; December 15, 2011)
• Cells from monkeys, pigs used in diabetes research  (St. Louis Post-Dispatch; December 15, 2011)
• The origins of bullying  (Scientific American; December 15, 2012)
• Gibbon rips toddler's thigh  (Malaysia Star; December 15, 2011)

Added December 13, 2011

• New species discovered every two days in the Mekong  (World Wildlife Fund; December 12, 2011)
• Anthropologist offers view of snakes as predatory, prey, and competitor  (Physorg; December 13, 2011)
• New model suggests early humans lost fur after developing bipedalism  (Physorg; December 13, 2011)
• Interview with conservation legend George Schaller  (Mongabay; December 13, 2011)
• Locals key to saving primate-rich wetlands in Cote D'Ivoire  (Mongabay; December 12, 2011)
• Those Lying Apes  (Psychology Today; December 13, 2011)
• Chimps bid farewell: Last of Coulston primates leave for Florida  (Alamogordo Daily News; December 12, 2011)

Added December 12, 2011

• Score! Dopamine! Repeat! ...or not  (Psychology Today; December 11, 2011)
• Study finds gene therapy can successfully treat hemophilia  (New York Daily News; December 10, 2011)
• Endangered primate threatened by tourism in the Philippines  (Daily Mail; December 12, 2011)
• Wild monkeys to measure radiation levels in Fukushima  (Telegraph; December 12, 2011)

Added December 9, 2011

• Alan Mootnick of the Gibbon Conservation Center Devoted His Life to Gibbons. What Will the Center Do Now That He's Gone?  (LA Weekly; December 8, 2011)