Chimpanzees in the Media
Chimps in TV ads lessens conservation help
A Chicago zoo is mounting a campaign to stop a company from airing a Super Bowl Sunday commercial featuring mischievous suit-and-tie wearing chimpanzees.
posted 01/31/2012 9:57 PMAnother CareerBuilder Chimp Ad Coming; Zoo Expert Disappointed
The CareerBuilder chimpanzees are back for a new Super Bowl commercial this year, in what an ape expert calls a continued “damaging and archaic practice.”
posted 01/29/2012 7:22 PMDid Cheetah from Tarzan flicks die?
PALM HARBOR, Fla. — A Florida animal sanctuary says Cheetah, the chimpanzee sidekick in the Tarzan movies of the early 1930s, has died at 80. But other accounts call that claim into question.
posted 12/29/2011 3:01 PMDecade-long chimp migration to St. Lucie County complete
If chimps had a history book, Dec. 15 would be an important mark in it, said Save the Chimps Sanctuary Director Jen Feuerstein.
posted 12/22/2011 9:44 AMRecognition of Chimps as Relatives May Reshape Research
New restrictions on federally financed experiments involving chimpanzees may be a turning point in how humans deal with other species.
posted 12/19/2011 2:12 PMBooie, the smoking chimpanzee, dies at 44
A chimpanzee that kicked a smoking habit and used sign language to beg for candy has died at a California animal refuge.
posted 12/15/2011 6:40 AMApe expert sues Great Ape Trust
An internationally renowned ape-language researcher at Great Ape Trust in Des Moines has accused the lab of abusing an infant bonobo and of preparing to move its apes to another facility. Gallery: Sue Savage-Rumbaugh and the bonobos at the Great Ape Trust
posted 12/14/2011 5:08 AMGorillas and Chimpanzees to end up on a plate
The Max Planck Institute in Leipzig have surveyed 109 resource management areas in Africa for twenty years to reach profoundly disturbing conclusions. The future of our nearest relatives is in doubt. In order to literally combat (in some cases) the decline of the Great Apes, it is now necessary to quantify the effects of every conservation measure.
posted 12/11/2011 6:43 AMBrains wired for language, if only chimps could talk
Synaesthesia-like abilities in chimps provide clues to how our early ancestors evolved their first words
posted 12/05/2011 3:09 PMFree Entertaining, Educational iPad Book for Kids Available Now; Chimps Should Be Chimps, Designed for Early Readers ...
Chimps Should Be Chimps, a free iPad book created by Lincoln Park Zoo's Project ChimpCARE, is designed for early readers aged 3 – 8 years. It offers an interactive and engaging story that aims to educate and inform kids – and their parents - about chimpanzees. The story is highlighted with bright, colorful and playful illustrations which seem to come to life with the stroke of a finger on the ...
posted 12/03/2011 3:31 AM