Category Archives: apes

Friday’s Primate (Blog) Party

Today’s Primate Party features a gem of a blog that I came across earlier this week. Bonobo Handshake describes the current field research of Vanessa Woods and her colleagues at a bonobo sanctuary in Congo. It’s full of amazing stories … Continue reading

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Friday’s Primate Party

I had my wallet stolen by a Madrid pickpocket on my recent honeymoon. I once almost lost a kayak dry-box containing wallets, phones and keys to a group of thieving raccoons who were attempting to drag it into the bushes. … Continue reading

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Friday’s Primate Party

In honour of yesterday’s journal club, here’s a chimpanzee apparently using his brain. Maybe he’s pondering whether his brain transcripts are displaying inter-species or intra-species differences to those of the guy with the camera.

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Bits and Bobs…

…a suitably lazy Friday post. 1) ERV and Colbert take down Michael Behe. Our chief weapon is reason, reason and mockery.Our two chief weapons are reason, mockery, and empirical evidence.Amongst our weaponry are such things as… 2) Another reason why … Continue reading

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