Snowboarding Chimp
via youtube.com
Clearly the king of the mountain!
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"Although color blindness is only moderately life-altering, we have shown we can cure a cone disease. That is extremely encouraging for the development of therapies for human cone diseases that really are blinding." --William Hauswirth, University of Florida
She has a tender heart, a nice hairy shoulder to cry on - and she knows where her zoo keeps the baby wipes.
So Anjana the chimpanzee is well qualified to be a kitten-sitter.
Since orphaned puma cub Sierra turned up at the zoo, Anjana has helped her human carers with all the feeding, cuddling and chasing duties.
The chimpanzee, who is five, has lived her whole life at The Institute of Greatly Endangered and Rare Species (TIGERS) in South Carolina, in the U.S..
She learned to care for little big cats while in the charge of resident feline curator China York.
Park director Dr Bhagavan Antle said: 'Chimpanzees are great learners and imitators so it wasn't long before she took on the right behaviours that were necessary to keep the kittens in line.
'If Sierra is running around too fast then Anjana will scoop her up and make sure she doesn't get into any trouble.'
Anjana has already helped to bring up two royal white tiger cubs, a leopard and four lions.
Dr Antle added: 'She is a great assistant. If you need a baby wipe you can just tell her and she'll run off and get it.'
Monkeys don’t care much for human music, but apparently they will groove to their own beat.
Previous experiments have shown that tamarin monkeys prefer silence to Mozart, and they don’t respond emotionally to human music the way people do. But when a psychologist and a musician collaborated to compose music based on the pitch, tone and tempo of tamarin calls, they discovered that the species-specific music significantly affected monkey behavior and emotional response.
"The customer who ordered this cake came in with a picture from the internet and wanted us to produce something similar. I can only presume that both the bride and groom were born in the year of the monkey according to the chinese zodiac. That or both of them really like bananas..."
Reading about Jason Biggs recent experience being attacked by a monkey in Gibraltar reminded me of my own attack by a monkey. Okay, okay, so it only bit me on my thumb. Lightly. The bite barely broke the skin. But, it did give me anxiety later when I had a brief moment of thinking that I had rabies about two weeks after my two-year stint as a Peace Corps volunteer in The Gambia had ended. My thumb was numb and I felt ill.
"Wherever monkeys are, it's good to know how not to get attacked. There are ways."
