Idiotic exotic pets in the news: attacking chimp, drugdealer serval, wandering monitor lizard & turtles

News today is full of the bad consequences of idiotic exotic pets, from the face-eating chimp to 10 soft-shelled warm weather turtles dumped in NJ. A drug dealer’s serval find a home at a CT museum. Monitor lizard stalks LA.

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January 26th, 2011 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Australia, cryptozoology, daily animal tour, dog, fish, health, lizard, population, predator, primate, sea, tv, west, whale, wolf | 4 comments - (Comments are closed)

Chimps in Guinea teach each other to defuse poachers' traps

Chimps in Guinea show each other how to disable the snares set by bushmeat trappers. Now if they can teach other African chimps, which suffer horrible injuries from the snares.

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January 4th, 2011 | Tags: , , , , , , | Category: Africa, behavior, hunting, International, population, primate, rescue, science, training, weird | Comments are closed

Chimpanzee girls–oblivious to gender stereotypes–play with dolls, study finds

Mothers, don’t blame yourself if your daughter likes girly toys. Even chimps in Uganda went for gender stereotypes, playing with stick dolls.

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December 20th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , | Category: Africa, baby, behavior, mammal, science | One comment - (Comments are closed)