Apes and monkeys in etymology
In scientific English, today we often distinguish between “monkeys” and “apes” in a meaningful way. Apes are the tail-less primates of the Old World that are...
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Quote: Huxley on traveler's tales and primate discovery
Thomas Huxley devoted his 1863 book, Evidence as to Man’s Place in Nature, to describing what was then known about the anatomy and biology of the living apes...
Quote: Haeckel on our ape "heirlooms"
Ernst Haeckel, in the History of Creation, English translation in the Project Gutenberg version:
Perils of talking to apes
Barbara King comments on Koko, Kanzi and Panbanisha, “Thoughts On Three Famous ‘Language Apes’”.
Orangutan loris capture and meat-eating
Madeleine Hardus and colleagues Hardus:2012 describe long-term observations of hunting by Sumatran orangutans.
Meet Aegyptopithecus
At this station are casts of Aegyptopithecus zeuxis. This species comes from the Oligocene, approximately 30 million years ago. It is from the Fayum fossil b...
Primate vertebral numbers
Between the skull and the sacrum, humans have 24 vertebrae. Well, most humans, anyway. Sometimes humans have a few more or less.
Ugandapithecus skull found
A brief report earlier this month from Agence France-Presse describes a new discovery of Ugandapithecus, worked on by Brigitte Senut and Martin Pickford: “20...
Scanning the ape fecome
Donald McNeil, Jr., has written up some background detail about last week’s story that falciparum malaria came from gorillas: “A finding on malaria comes fro...
Quote: Huxley and the gorilla mystique
Thomas Henry Huxley, in Evidence as to Man’s Place in Nature:
Swimming orangutans
New Scientist is running a gallery of orangutans interacting in water. These are orphaned orangutans that were relocated to an island and have since been obs...
Glut suit riot
On topic: A Primate of Modern Aspect reviews the anatomy of the Ardipithecus proximal femur.
Orangutan facts
Current Biology has a Q and A with orangutan researcher Anne Russon. It’s a good discussion to freshen one’s knowledge of orangutan behavior. Here’s an inter...
Chimps R'n't Us
Michael Balter reports on the “First 4 Million Years of Human Evolution” meeting: “Primatologists Go Ape Over Ardi”.
High-tech honey extraction, chimpanzee-style
Most people know that hunter-gatherer men hunt meat. Fewer people know the major secondary target for male foraging in many hunter-gatherer societies: honey....
Ardi woes
Fifteen years they had this thing, and they didn’t look at Oreopithecus?
Late Miocene fossil apes from Africa
Time for some attention to the Miocene apes. I’ve neglected them for the last few years, and there have been some interesting finds. I don’t mean the stuff t...
The mystery ape from Longgupo
In last week’s Nature, Russell Ciochon has a remarkable essay:
Hesperopithecus
Worth reading: Laelaps on “Hesperopithecus”, “The ‘Million-Dollar Pig’s Tooth Mystery’”.
Orangutans coming out of the woodwork
A reader forwarded this AP story about a new orangutan count for a relatively unexplored corner of Borneo:
Gorilla snippets from the 1800's
I’m skipping around the net doing some historical research today, and I’ve been running across stories that try to describe apes to the general public, aroun...