Orangutan granted 'personhood' turns 34, and makes new friend
A orangutan named Sandra, who was granted legal personhood by a judge in Argentina and later found a new home in Florida, celebrated her 34th birthday on Valentine's Day with a special new primate friend. Patti Ragan, director of the Center for Great Apes in ...
Gilead drug prevents type of coronavirus in monkeys, raising hope for China trials
An experimental Gilead Sciences antiviral drug prevented disease and reduced the severity of symptoms in monkeys infected with Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS), an infection closely related to the fast-spreading coronavirus that originated in China, a study published on Thursday found. The results, reported in ...
Life expectancy of chimpanzees raised in Japan is 28 years, Kyoto University team finds
A research team from Kyoto University said Friday that the average life expectancy of chimpanzees raised in Japan is 28.3 years. Satoshi Hirata, professor at the university's Wildlife Research Center, and colleagues calculated the average life span from necessary information, such as birth and death ...
Chimps chomp on crabs: In world first, Kyoto professor and team observe apes eating aquatic animals
An international research team that included Kyoto University professor Tetsuro Matsuzawa has said it has observed wild chimpanzees preying on river crabs for the first time. The finding is contrary to the common belief that anthropoid apes, such as chimpanzees and gorillas, the closest species ...
Shared alerts: Monkey experiments offer clues on origin of language
Green and vervet monkeys live on either side of Africa and their evolutionary paths diverged 3.5 million years ago, and yet the two species share a hardwired vocabulary when faced with danger, clever experiments have shown. The new research, published Monday, sheds light not only ...
There's so much that bonobos and chimps can teach humans
About 6 million years ago in Africa there was an ape species that would change the world. We don't know much about that animal, but we do know that one population separated from the rest and would eventually evolve into our species, Homo sapiens.
Johnny, Japan's oldest chimpanzee, has died at the estimated age of 69, a zoo in Kobe said Tuesday. The African-born male chimp had seen his appetite diminish since around September and he had been staying inside his sleeping chamber since 2017 due to age-related health ...
Footage of snow monkey 'acrobats' in Japan's far north goes viral
The clip, played nearly 900,000 times, shows the snow monkeys walking on the wires in a line as if they were performing as circus acrobats.
Japan Times 1918: Captain Yoshita Masaki saved after insisting on going down with his ship
Capt. Yoshita Masaki is said to have remained aboard his ship until the last moment, apparently determined to share her fate, and paying no heed to the officers and men who besought him to leave while there was yet time.
For the second consecutive year, the island of Koshima is connected to the mainland thanks to a lack of major typhoons, raising fears of trouble between visiting humans and resident monkeys
Japanese team succeeds in impregnating monkey via uterus transplant
A Japanese research team has succeeded in impregnating a monkey that was given the extracted uterus of another primate in a transplant operation last year. The researchers said Sunday that they hope the method can be used to enable pregnancies in women who are sick, ...
Japanese team's antibody treatment returns 80% of finger function to paralyzed monkeys
A joint research team formed by Kyoto University and Osaka University has succeeded in repairing finger function in monkeys with spinal cord injuries by using an antibody to thwart a protein that blocks neural regeneration. Details of the findings made by the team, which includes ...
