Monkey (animal)

He's outlived them all. Tarzan. Trigger. Ronald Reagan. Now, retired in Palm Springs, the world's oldest chimp gets some stuff off his chest.

2007-04-22 00:00:00

What can I say--I'm a star. That's why this guy's staring at me, right? I seem familiar, and not just because I did 50 movies, including those classic "Tarzan" flicks of the 1930s. Maybe he saw me on one of the morning shows. Maybe he read about me in...

Animal Practice

2012-08-10 21:55:07

Having taken a few quality cable-type bets, the new regime at NBC wants to serve notice they're not above silly and high-concept too. Enter "Animal Practice," where most of the boasting has been about audience-testing scores for a Capuchin monkey,...

Monkey born in Md. Zoo exhibit Saturday

2012-04-21 15:38:00

A colobus monkey was born in an exhibit Saturday at the Maryland Zoo in Baltimore. Zoo officials did not know for certain that one of their female colobus monkeys, 14-year-old Keri, was pregnant, the zoo's general curator, Mike McClure, said in a...

Eastern Ecuador's ecological diversity means marvelous creatures at every turn

2012-05-21 10:44:00

Imagine palm trees 10 stories high. Imagine lakes with paiche fish that are 6 feet long. Imagine rivers with stingrays, caimans, catfish, neon tetras and electric eels. The lake where La Selva Amazon Ecolodge is located, Lake Garzacocha, looks...

Bad dates and really bad dates

2012-02-15 14:52:00

Let's jump right into more terrible dates in this final edition of the Looove Connection. One of them involves a spider monkey at a drive-in, so you'll want to read on for that one. Our first stories will involve cheap dates, not in the good sense. I'...

Youmans: Audience takes control in 'Stuffed'

2012-01-05 19:11:47

A band of miscreant puppets and six comedian puppeteers took to the stage at the Irvine Barclay Theatre on New Year's Eve, largely not knowing what the evening of improv puppetry had in store. "Stuffed and Unstrung," Henson Alternative's foul-mouthed...

Lincoln Park Zoo unhappy with Super Bowl monkey business

2012-01-29 00:00:00

Monkeys are back; primates upset Greene County neighbors

2012-01-11 19:12:00

EBENEZER, Mo. --� Having lived in northern Greene County for six years, Al Wagner is used to seeing a lot of animals native to the land.� Recently, though, he saw something that didn't fit in. "I was up there cutting wood on my property and seen 'em over...

Researchers Find Rare Brown-Spider Monkey

2012-01-26 15:07:00

Researchers from The Wildlife Conservation Society’s (WCS) Colombia program and Colombia’s National Parks Unit have confirmed that a critically endangered subspecies of brown-spider monkeys is living in Selva de Florencia National Park in...

Ohio animal escape may lead to tougher laws in Virginia

2012-01-19 06:57:00

UPDATE: House lawmakers declined to adopt that would make it illegal to possess "dangerous wild animals." FRANKLIN — Debbie Jeter unlocked the chain-link fence door and stepped inside. Less than 10 feet away was a 450-pound brown bear. The only...

Missing S.F. Zoo monkey 'Banana Sam' is now tweeting

2011-12-30 19:38:00

A monkey missing from the San Francisco Zoo might be in the hands of vandals, but one practical joker on Twitter would rather have us believing that Banana Sam is having fun touring San Francisco. By Friday afternoon, someone had created a Twitter...

Missing Squirrel Monkey Banana Sam Returned to Zoo

2012-01-02 06:50:00

SAN FRANCISCO (KTLA) - A squirrel monkey set free from the San Francisco Zoo last week has been found safe, police said Sunday. The one foot tall monkey, named Banana Sam, was noticed missing sometime between Thursday night and Friday morning after...

Rio's zoo veterinarian Alex Spadetti plays with 'Lequinho', a two-month-old 'green monkey' (Cercopithecus pygerythrus), a species originary from South Africa, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on May 22. 2012.

2012-05-22 00:00:00

A newborn colobus monkey is held by its mother at the Maryland Zoo In Baltimore.

2012-04-21 00:00:00

A 19-year-old Japanese macaque monkey named Monday scratches her eyes while suffering an allergy to pollen from the cedar tree, at Awajishima Monkey Center.

2012-03-26 00:00:00