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Added May 24, 2013

• Monkey teeth help reveal Neanderthal weaning  (HealthCanal; May 23, 2013)
• Engineered cytomegalovirus protects monkeys from HIV equivalent  (Medical Xpress; May 24, 2013)
• Kibaale Chimpanzee Abducts Child, Then Lets Go  (New Vision, Uganda; May 24, 2013)
• Cloned stem-cell study under fire for sloppy errors  (NewScientist; May 23, 2013)

Added May 23, 2013

• Top 10 New Species of 2012  (ScienceDaily; May 22, 2013)

Added May 22, 2013

• The Macaque Genome: Interactive Poster and Teaching Resource  (Science; 2007)
• Chimpanzee Behaviors  (Jane Goodall Institute Research Center)
• Mirror Neurons and Mirror Systems in Monkeys and Humans  (American Physiological Society; 2008; PPT)
• Never get in to a fight with a baboon  (Royal Gazette; May 20, 2013)
• Derby couple helping to treat diabetic monkeys  (BBC News; May 22, 2013)
• Great Apes and FSC: Implementing 'Ape Friendly' Practices in Central Africa's Logging Concessions  (IUCN; 2013; PDF)
• Conservationists release manual on protecting great apes in forest concessions  (EurekAlert; May 21, 2013)

Added May 21, 2013

• UW teaching excellence awards go to La Crosse, Parkside and Madison campuses  (Wisconsin State Journal; May 21, 2013)
• Scientists identify 4 genes in baboons that influence levels of bad cholesterol  (News-Medical; May 17, 2013)
• A return to childhood: seeking African gorillas at Volcanoes Natl Park  (Washington Times; March 15, 2013)
• Gorillas in our midst  (Yorkshire Post; May 20, 2013)
• Hunger Games: One Chimp's Thrilling Monkey Hunt  (National Geographic; May 21, 2013)
• A Link to Ears of Early Humans  (New York Times; May 20, 2013)
• Plague of deforestation sweeps across south-east Asia  (The Guardian; May 20, 2013)
• Tracing the roots of human morality in animals  (Review of "The Bonobo and the Atheist: In Search of Humanism among the Primates" by Frans de Waal; NewScientist; May 21, 2013)

Added May 20, 2013

• Cross-species liver transplant succeeds  (People's Daily Online; May 10, 2013)
• Lying may have evolved from apes and can develop in robots, claims new study  (Express; March 16, 2013)
• Brain Frontal Lobes Not Sole Center of Human Intelligence, Comparative Research Suggests  (ScienceDaily; May 13, 2013)
• Pharmaceutical company fined in deaths of 2 monkeys  (NJ.com; May 17, 2013)
• Most Athletic Monkeys: Photos  (Discovery News; May 14, 2013)
• Fossils May Pinpoint Critical Split Between Apes and Monkeys  (Science; May 15, 2013)

Added May 9, 2013

• NIH Details Impact of 2013 Sequester Cuts  (Science; May 8, 2013)
• Aceh, North Sumatra administrations urged to halt destruction of orangutan natural habitats  (Jakarta Post; May 7, 2013)
• Male gorillas living the high life at Gorilla Haven facility/bachelor pad in Georgia  (Ryot; May 6, 2013)
• Inside Ireland's monkey sanctuary  (Newstalk 106-108 FM; May 9, 2013)
• Want To Hang Out With Lemurs? Duke Lemur Center Invites Visitors  (WUNC; May 8, 2013)
• Alarm among activists after Malaysia kills nearly 100,000 monkeys  (Los Angeles Times; May 8, 2013)
• Look, but don't stare! Hanging out with Kyoto's macaques  (CNN; May 9, 2013)
• Equality and Individuality: A Collaboration Between Primates  (Scientific American; May 9, 2013)

Added May 6, 2013

• Fossil of Great Ape Sheds Light On Evolution  (ScienceDaily; May 3, 2013)
• Malaria: A Vector Infecting Both Apes and Humans  (ScienceDaily; May 3, 2013)
• Monkey Math: Baboons Show Brain's Ability to Understand Numbers  (ScienceDaily; May 3, 2013)
• Primate Hibernation More Common Than Previously Thought  (ScienceDaily; May 2, 2013)

Added May 1, 2013

• Amgen Drugs May Boost Survival During a Nuclear Attack  (Bloomberg; May 1, 2013)
• Chimp Haven Rallies Midway Through $5 Million Capital Campaign  (WWNO, New Orleans; May 1, 2013)
• Chimps Opt for Takeout as "Grab-and-Go"Fruit Comes into Season  (National Geographic; April 29, 2013)
• Migrant monkeys munch whatever the locals are having  (NewScientist; May 1, 2013)

Added April 29, 2013

• How animals mourn their dead  (New York Post; April 28, 2013)
• Green activists see red over Sumatra rain forest plan  (Globe and Mail; April 28, 2013)
• Big brains, no fur, sinuses - are these clues to our ancestors' lives as 'aquatic apes'?  (The Guardian; April 27, 2013)
• Animal rights activist protest Princeton University primate laboratory  (New Jersey Star-Ledger; April 27, 2013)
• Keeping wayward monkeys at bay  (Independent Online; April 29, 2013)
• Heiress Tansy Aspinall: 'I can speak gorilla, but my tiger is patchy'  (Daily Mail; April 27, 2013)
• Saving The Cao Vit Gibbon, The Second Rarest Ape In The World  (Asian Scientist; April 29, 2013)

Added April 26, 2013

• Chimps can get rhythm just like humans, study shows  (Asahi Shimbun; April 26, 2013)

Added April 25, 2013

• Culture Vultures: 'When in Rome' Applies to Monkey's Too  (ScienceDaily; April 25, 2013)
• "Off-the-shelf" artificial blood vessels may reduce dialysis complications  (American Heart Association; April 24, 2013)
• Is the tourism industry helping great apes?  (Mother Nature Network; April 24, 2013)
• Chimps put passion in their communications  (NBC News; April 22, 2013)
• In Social Settings, Monkeys See and Monkeys Do  (New York Times; April 25, 2013)

Added April 23, 2013

• Decision looms on future of CWU chimps  (Seattle Times; April 21, 2013)
• Regaining Lost Brain Function  (MIT Technology Review; April 23, 2013)
• Which Primate Is the Most Likely Source of the Next Pandemic?  (Smithsonian; April 22, 2013)
• Harvard to shut primate research center where monkeys died, citing tough economic climate  (Boston Globe; April 23, 2013)

Added April 19, 2013

• Researcher devise drug cocktail for coronavirus  (Montreal Gazette; April 18, 2013)
• Monkeys can identify human hunters  (BBC Nature; April 17, 2013)
• Frans de Waal's 'The Bonobo and the Atheist' tells what apes can teach us about morals  (Plain Dealer; April 15, 2013)
• Mouse hepatitis virus may help end chimp research  (NewScientist; April 15, 2013)

Added April 16, 2013

• Eating Solid Food Early Sets Marmosets On Path to Obesity  (ScienceDaily; April 10, 2013)

Added April 11, 2013

• Restoring paretic hand function via an artificial neural connection bridging spinal cord injury  (EurekAlert; April 11, 2013)
• Secret Population of Orangutans Found  (Discovery News; April 11, 2013)
• Half-Human, Half-Ape Ancestor Reconstructed  (Discovery News; April 11, 2013)
• Chimpanzees Use Botanical Skills to Discover Fruit  (ScienceDaily; April 10, 2013)

Added April 10, 2013

• Secret to Olive Baboon Survival in a Barren Desert  (National Geographic; April 9, 2013)

Added April 8, 2013

• Rare Primate's Vocal Lip-Smacks Share Features of Human Speech  (ScienceDaily; April 8, 2013)

Added April 4, 2013

• Researchers discover the brain origins of variation in pathological anxiety  (University of Wisconsin-Madison News; March 26, 2013)
• Citizen journalism: More orangutans become pets  (Jakarta Post; April 4, 2013)
• Chimps take antidepressants too  (Salon; April 2, 2013)
• New book tells story of couple who adopt a chimpanzee  (Review of the novel "A Beautiful Truth" by Colin McAdam; Globe and Mail; April 4, 2013; Video)
• A Sleep Drug Without the Side Effects  (Science; April 3, 2013)
• Monkey Smiles Are Contagious  (Science; March 29, 2013)
• Great Apes in Crisis: Thousands Poached and Stolen from the Wild Annually  (Scientific American; March 7, 2013)
• 'Between Man and Beast: An Unlikely Explorer, the Evolution Debates, and the African Adventure that Took the Victorian World by Storm' by Monte Reel  (Washington Post; March 22, 2013)
• Animals' natural behaviors often reprehensible for humans  (Standard-Examiner; April 2, 2013)
• Paignton zoo gorilla N'Dowe paints gorilla sculpture  (BBC; March 26, 2013)
• Trafficked apes strive to return to the wild  (Alzajeera; March 25, 2013)
• Chimps, gorillas, other apes being lost to trade  (Associated Press; March 26, 2013)
• First zoo-born male orangutan to be released into the wild is killed by a poisonous snake after less than 18 months in the rainforest  (Daily Mail; April 3, 2013)
• Why Justin Bieber Shouldn't Have a Monkey  (National Geographic; April 2, 2013)
• At 6 Months, Babies Are As Good at Telling Apart Monkeys as You Are at Telling Apart People  (Slate; April 3, 2013)
• Brain Shape Confirms Controversial Fossil as Oldest Human Ancestor  (Scientific American; April 4, 2013)
• Who Will Save the Last Hoolock Gibbons?  (Scientific American; April 4, 2013)
• Chimps: Ability to 'Think About Thinking' Not Limited to Humans  (ScienceDaily; April 3, 2013)
• Scientists Develop Monkey Model to Study Novel Coronavirus Infection  (ScienceDaily; April 3, 2013)

Added April 3, 2013

• Research findings shed light on how neurons translate sensory input into actions  (News-Medical; April 3, 2013)
• Monkey Study Reveals Why Middle Managers Suffer the Most Stress  (ScienceDaily; April 2, 2013)

Added April 2, 2013

• Capuchin monkey fueled by human relation, tool usage  (The Red and the Black; April 1, 2013)
• For Early Primates, a Night Filled With Color  (New York Times; April 1, 2013)
• Psychiatry Tries to Aid Traumatized Chimps in Captivity  (Scientific American; April 2, 2013)
• Babies' flexible squeals may enable them to talk later  (ScienceNews; April 1, 2013)
• An Unlikely Explorer Stumbles Into Controversy  (NPR; March 31, 2013)
• "Gorillafication": How to be a surrogate primate mom  (CBS This Morning; March 30, 2013)
• What monkeys and middle managers have in common  (Science Blog; April 2, 2013)
• Plan to release medical research chimpanzees sparks American soul searching  (The Telegraph; March 30, 2013)
• Pattycake, New York's most beloved gorilla, dies at age 40  (The Telegraph; April 1, 2013)
• 'Outcast' baboons re-homed by Yorkshire Wildlife Park  (BBC News; April 2, 2013)

Added April 1, 2013

• Hunting for Meat Impacts On Rainforest, Fruit Tree Seed Dispersal  (ScienceDaily; March 20, 2013)
• Lemur Lookalikes Are Two New Species, DNA Says  (ScienceDaily; March 26, 2013)
• Tarsiers' Bulging Eyes Shed Light On Evolution of Human Vision  (ScienceDaily; March 27, 2013)
• In Solving Social Dilemmas, Vervet Monkeys Get by With a Little Patience  (ScienceDaily; March 28, 2013)