How Do Monkeys Keep Their Nails Clipped?

Posted on January 31, 2008 by Courtney Mroch

Do they even have nails to keep clipped? These are the type of burning questions that keep me up at night. (Okay, they don’t keep me up at night. But I was thinking about it before I drifted off last night.) So I did some cursory Internet searching today and found that apes and most monkeys do in fact have nails, but some have claws. I could not find any mention of how they keep them trimmed. While clever, I’m fairly certain no ape or monkey colony has come up with a nail salon out in the wild. But if … Continue reading →

Going Ape Over Prehistoric Fossils and Baby Gorillas

Posted on August 23, 2007 by Courtney Mroch

Recently I figured out how to subscribe to BBC News’s Daily Email. Hence blogs like Radioactivity Less Dangerous to Animals Then Man? and now this one might be created with more frequency. Today’s BBC email sort of had a theme to it: primates. Very, very old ones as well as a precious little newcomer. New Species of Great Ape Discovered Researchers studying the Afar rift in eastern Ethiopia found nine fossilized teeth estimated to be 10 million years old. They suspected the teeth belonged to a member of the gorilla family, but after running tests, making comparisons and doing whatever … Continue reading →