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Kiwis Prove Birds Can Count

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1:30PM January 2, 2012 | Logan Booker

A year of training is all it took for pigeons at the University of Otago in Dunedin, NZ to count just as well as primates, the animal kingdom’s equivalent of Will Hunting. More »

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Japan Unleashing Packs Of Wild Monkeys To Test Fukushima Radiation

10:40AM December 14, 2011 | Sam Biddle

Problem: nobody knows just how bad the radioactive contamination is at Fukushima, nine months later. Prediction: still pretty bad. Solution: send in a bunch of monkeys armed with radiation meters and GPS collars, hope for the best. Let’s do it! More »

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Monkeys Move Touch-Sensitive Virtual Limb Using Only Thoughts

2:20PM October 8, 2011 | Kelly Hodgkins

Using monkeys as test subjects, researchers from Duke University Medical centre are laying down the foundation for a new class of brain-controlled, touch-sensitive prosthetic limbs. More »

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Virtual Monkeys Have Almost Written Shakespeare

11:46PM September 26, 2011 | Casey Chan

Jesse Anderson developed a program that simulated a few million virtual monkeys randomly mashing keys on virtual typewriters in an attempt to re-create Shakespeare. Amazingly, the monkeys (monkeys!) have managed to write 99.99 per cent of Shakespeare’s poem, A Lover’s Complaint. More »

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Lab Chimps See Daylight For First Time

7:40AM September 7, 2011 | Mat Honan

Imagine being locked up inside for 30 years, without ever seeing the sun. That’s what these lab chimps went through, while also being used as test subjects by a pharmaceutical company for HIV and hepatitis. More »

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Baby Monkey Playing With An iPhone Makes Cute Video

8:27AM July 20, 2011 | Jesus Diaz

I love monkeys and I love this cute video of Nala, a baby Capuchin who seems to be fascinated Angry Birds running on the iPhone. I’m sure that if she was bigger she would smash iPhone like Hulk. More »

Cameras

Those Smiling Monkey Pictures Are Likely Public Domain

2:54PM July 19, 2011 | Kelly Hodgkins

We can all breathe a sigh of relief as those macaque monkey pictures may belong in the public domain. Neither the photographer nor the news agency that published the images can claim a copyright because they did not create them. More »

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Vain Monkey Steals Cam To Take Adorable Self-Portraits

2:40AM July 6, 2011 | Sam Biddle

If you need any further proof that we’re related to monkeys, behold: they’re just as cunning and self-obsessed as we are! British photog David Slater was snapping some Indonesian macaques, when they nabbed his camera. And one started photographing itself. More »

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First Advertising Campaign For Monkeys: Alpha Males And Genitals

5:20AM June 28, 2011 | Rowan Hooper - New Scientist

Keith Olwell and Elizabeth Kiehner had an epiphany last year. At a TED talk, the two New York advertising executives learned that captive monkeys understand money, and that when faced with economic games they will behave in similar ways to humans. So if they can cope with money, how would they respond to advertising? More »

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Monkey AIDS Vaccine Holds Promise For Us Humans, Too

8:15AM May 14, 2011 | Sam Biddle

While this is by no means a quantum leap for HIV treatment in humans, any AIDS progress is great AIDS progress. Especially when the progress is in our furry monkey relatives, who are responding terrifically to a new AIDS vaccine. More »