4 The Love Of Animals
APRIL 16, 2012
Today, only 1/10 remain, primarily due to habitat loss and illegal hunting. Current trends indicate that African ape populations will decline by an additional 80% in the next 30 to 40 years. See CHIMPANZEE, Save Chimpanzees!
Reddit Animals
MAY 21, 2023
Local pygmies say that leopards hunt gorillas and adult male gorilla remains are found in leopard scat The toe of an 11 year old male gorilla is found in leopard scat. An 11 year old male is just about mature too, as they become silverbacks at around age 12 A leopard likely killed two silverbacks, one in good health, and a blackback.
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10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 29, 2014
He introduces ideas and slowly builds on them, staring with the outbreak of Hendra in people and horses in Queensland before moving the story to his own experiences of great ape die-off when he was covering Michael Fay’s Megatransect in the Congo Basin. This lake is close to the cave. My photo of the cave was bad, sorry.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 17, 2015
But in Iraq, and more exactly, Kurdistan and Iraqi Kurdistan, they are supposed to be there (and are regularly hunted and eaten) and the fighting is not supposed to be there. That means crows join humans, apes and monkeys in exhibiting advanced relational thinking, according to the research. BBC has the story as a video.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 15, 2012
This pointy-headed idea came from three places, and all three were in part reactions to the prevailing “Man the Hunter” (or “Killer Ape”) popularizations of human evolution (we also discussed those fallacies for the show). Eland are pretty darn hard to hunt.
4 The Love Of Animals
NOVEMBER 24, 2009
Wolves, for example–the probable ancestors of dogs–live in packs that hunt together and have a complex hierarchy. Hare suspects that the evolutionary pressures that turned suspicious wolves into outgoing dogs were similar to the ones that turned combative apes into cooperative humans. Evolving Gifts.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 11, 2013
Their scientific name is Theropithecus gelada, the former word meaning “beast-ape” in Greek. They have also been known as Lion Baboons and Bleeding-heart Baboons, due respectively to the males’ lion-like cape and tail, and the bare patch of red skin on both sex’s chests. Gelada lip flare and yawn. Photo by Adam Riley.
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