10,000 Birds
AUGUST 19, 2014
So, for example, humans are apes. If we assume (probably incorrectly) that of apes and monkeys, they all descended from a monkey like ancestor, than apes are monkeys. and contains apes is referenced to indicate the complete clade.
10,000 Birds
JULY 16, 2014
Can’t do a post on Kinabatangan without the amazing Bornean endemic Probosis Monkey. Trips apes Birding Borneo' There were lots of other amazing birds and animals, but don’t take my word for it, head out there and check it out for yourself! Peace is a river to yourself in the evening.
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10,000 Birds
APRIL 15, 2014
The zoo has already identified several species like the huge monkey-eating Philippine eagle that are at once distinct, endangered, and suffer from lack of attention. At some point perhaps I’ll write up for you how the evolution of humans, specifically the ape-human split, and Galapagos bird evolution are the same thing in this regard.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 11, 2013
Their scientific name is Theropithecus gelada, the former word meaning “beast-ape” in Greek. In fact, Geladas so seldom climb trees that we actually witnessed several big males falling out and others being too boisterous and breaking off massive branches, with both the branch and the monkey hitting the ground rather solidly!
Animal Ethics
AUGUST 17, 2007
To the Editor: Re “An Ape Types in Iowa” (column, Aug. 9): Gail Collins writes: “Human-ape conversation was a very hot topic back in the late 1960s, when researchers first taught a chimpanzee named Washoe to use sign language. The Great Ape Trust is the only place in America where this kind of research still goes on.”
Animal Ethics
DECEMBER 1, 2010
Thus, whilst research on chimpanzees, monkeys, and many other animals, reveals a significant degree of rationality which provides an important ground for justified moral demands that they be better treated than they now are, the degree and kind of rationality fall far short of that necessary for moral judgment and moral self-determination.
Animal Ethics
MARCH 27, 2009
The Argument from Monkeys According to Gerald Carson, Dr. John Harvey Kellogg, a well-known advocate of vegetarianism and inventor of some eighty ready-to-eat breakfast foods, used to persuade people to adopt vegetarianism in the following way: Dr. The doctor would toss a juicy beefsteak to the suspicious animal.
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