Word: speciesism
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The first scientist to see the Bili apes was Shelly Williams, an independent primatologist who visited the region at Ammann's invitation in the summers of 2002 and 2003. She says she documented separate groups of East and West African chimpanzee subspecies and what she calls the "mystery ape." The...
That last, least dramatic theory is the one preferred by most scientists who have visited the region, including Harvard ape expert Richard Wrangham, who thinks the ground nests are built by chimps looking to escape dampness during the day. When Hicks and Ammann describe the animal they are studying, they...
DISCOVERED. The ARUNACHAL MACAQUE, a previously unknown species of monkey; in the forests of Arunachal Pradesh, India. The stocky, brown-haired primates, who have distinctively dark facial markings and short tails, are the first new macaques to be discovered since 1903. In recent years, three deer and goat species foreign...
You don't need to pull an all-nighter, work 24-hour shifts or hold down a couple of jobs to know that at some point you just have to crash. All through the animal kingdom, sleep ranks right up there with food, water and sexual intercourse for the survival...
Strahan says the legal research he does at the libraries is in the public interest. “I’m the only person who brings endangered species protection lawsuits,” Strahan says, calling the access issue a challenge to the “total freedoms and...