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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

The Great Ape Trust is the only place in America where this kind of research still goes on.” In fact, the Language Research Center at Georgia State University has engaged in continuous social, cognitive and biobehavioral research on primates, including language training and research, since 1981. Georgia State University Atlanta, Aug.

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Africa’s remarkable long tailed birds

10,000 Birds

A Long-tailed Sylph, one of the America’s many long tailed hummingbird species, photographed in Colombia by Adam Riley. They follow troops of monkeys through the forests, swooping down to snatch insects that the primates flush from the leaves. The remarkable Resplendent Quetzal photographed in Guatemala by Adam Riley.