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'He's Ripping Her Apart,' Chimp Owner Screams on 911 Call

Owner gave pet Xanax before it attacked friend

(Newser) - "He's killing my girlfriend! He's eating her!" the frantic owner of a chimpanzee screamed in a call to police as the animal viciously attacked her friend. "You have to shoot him!" the Connecticut woman tells the dispatcher in a chilling tape of the call as the...

Chimp Shot After Vicious Attack on Woman

Victim fighting for her life after Connecticut family's pet goes berserk

(Newser) - Connecticut police shot dead a pet chimpanzee yesterday after it critically injured a woman in a vicious attack, the Stamford Advocate reports. The owner of the 200-pound chimp stabbed it with a butcher knife after it leaped on her visiting friend for no apparent reason. A police officer who arrived...

Tarzan's Old Pal Enjoys His Retirement

At 76, Tarzan co-star keeping busy with painting, TV

(Newser) - Cheeta the chimp is enjoying a fairly humdrum retirement after his glittering showbiz career, Entertainment Weekly reports. Cheeta, at 76 the world's oldest domesticated simian, was plucked from the jungles of Africa as a baby and starred in the '30s Tarzan movies. An "autobiography"—more of a Hollywood...

Spain Passes Ape Rights Bill
 Spain Passes Ape Rights Bill 
Jun 26, 2008 1:14 PM CDT

Spain Passes Ape Rights Bill

Seriously, parliament moves to protect 'non-human hominids'

(Newser) - Spanish Parliament passed a resolution promising fundamental “human” rights to the great apes, the Guardian reports. The bill enjoys wide support and would ban scientific experimentation involving higher-level primates. Zoo exhibition will still be legal, but supporters say living conditions will improve significantly. The legislative body was inspired by...

Lusty She-Chimps Emulate SATC
 Lusty She-Chimps
 Emulate SATC 
Jun 18, 2008 12:31 PM CDT

Lusty She-Chimps Emulate SATC

Females mate with as many males as possible

(Newser) - New research into the sex lives of chimpanzees compares the behavior of females to their  peers in the urban jungle of Sex and the City. Female chimps are promiscuous, hoping to fool several male Mr. Bigs into thinking they fathered offspring, and noisy, to attract other partners. Dominant males are...

Study: Cuddles Calm Chimps After Conflict

Researchers find evidence of empathy in man's closest relative

(Newser) - Chimpanzees console each other with hugs and kisses after a conflict much like humans do, researchers have discovered. After a chimp has been the victim of aggression, its stress levels are greatly reduced when it's embraced by another. The findings reveal a level of empathy in man's closest relative that...

Chimp Not a Person, Court Rules
Chimp Not
a Person,
Court Rules
Jan 15, 2008 4:24 PM CST

Chimp Not a Person, Court Rules

Austrian animal-rights group vows to continue fighting on simian's behalf

(Newser) - Matthew Hiasl Pan, a 26-year-old chimp, is not legally a person, the Austrian Supreme Court has ruled. The animal shelter where he lives has declared bankruptcy, and human donors have volunteered to support him. But under Austrian law, only people can receive personal gifts, reports the AP, so the court...

Communicating Chimp Signs Off
Communicating Chimp Signs Off
Nov 2, 2007 5:07 PM CDT

Communicating Chimp Signs Off

Washoe, simian with impressive vocabulary, is dead at 42

(Newser) - Washoe, the first non-human to learn a human language, is being remembered as a linguistic pioneer and a "polite, cheerful person," even though she was a chimp. Washoe, who died this week at 42, could use around 250 different American Sign Language signs in conversation, the Seattle Times ...

What's Baby Got That Chimps Don't?
What's Baby Got That Chimps Don't?
Sep 7, 2007 12:05 PM CDT

What's Baby Got That Chimps Don't?

Study pits toddlers against primates to see how human brains are different

(Newser) - What makes humans smarter than their primate relatives? Into the ongoing debate comes a new study that concludes it's not just size, it's the particular kind of computing power. A study matching human toddlers with chimps and orangutans compared their performance on a battery of different kinds of tasks. The...

Scientists Rethink the Bonobo
Scientists Rethink the Bonobo
Jul 23, 2007 10:02 AM CDT

Scientists Rethink the Bonobo

Bonobos are not the solution to all of life's problems

(Newser) - Bonobos—the chimp cousins revered by generations of naturalists for their peaceful, playful, apparently even eco-conscious attitudes—may not be quite as groovy as we've been led to believe. Much of the cult of bonobo has been built around data from animals in captivity, where, as one scientist says, "...

Giant Chimps Found in Congo
Giant Chimps Found in Congo
Jul 14, 2007 1:30 PM CDT

Giant Chimps Found in Congo

(Newser) - Scientists from the University of Amsterdam have discovered a population of giant, near ape-size chimpanzees in the Congo. Long rumored to exist, they are referred to by local hunters as lion-eating chimps. And while the scientists could not confirm the lion-eating, they did see a band of the chimps eating...

Early Immunity to Chimp Virus Leaves Humans Open to HIV

An advantage 4M years ago is a weakness now

(Newser) - Humans are more susceptible to HIV than other primates because our ancestors evolved a protein that could fight off a different retrovirus that infected chimps, says Scientific American. The most conspicuous difference between the chimpanzee genome sequenced in 2005 and the human one, says a Seattle virologist, was 130 copies...

NIH Won't Breed Chimps for Research
NIH Won't Breed Chimps for Research
May 25, 2007 6:21 AM CDT

NIH Won't Breed Chimps for Research

Agency cites financial reasons; rights activists thrilled anyway

(Newser) - The National Institutes of Health will stop breeding chimpanzees for use in medical testing, the agency announced yesterday. The practice is being abandoned for financial reasons, NIH says; because chimpanzees live upwards of 50 years in captivity, their lifelong upkeep costs $500,000.

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