Primate

Cooking gave humans larger brains than primates, researchers say

24 Oct 2012

If human beings had not invented cooking as a way of increasing the number of calories they consumed, they could only have evolved the 86 billion neurons in our big brains by spending an...

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Tamarin family moves to HK

3 May 2011

From their father's back, the newborn red-handed tamarin twins watch their siblings jump from branch to branch all over their rainforest enclosure. The twins' teeny golden hands are poised, ready...

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New home for tamarins

10 Sep 2010

Three cotton-top tamarin monkeys are exploring their new home in a zoo in Hungary. The one male and two females were sent to the Jaszbereny Zoo, 77 kilometres east of Budapest from the...

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Wild monkeys hunted for food and medicine for centuries on mainland

9 Jul 2007

Wild monkeys on the mainland have been under pressure from human activity for hundreds of years.

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Monkey swings to the top

23 Sep 2005

A monkey with magical powers has cast a spell over young readers, a survey has revealed.

The Boys' and Girls' Association of Hong Kong interviewed about 200 children this month and...

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Two golden paper primates sent to join Monkey Man

7 Jul 2004

Kam Ying used to go everywhere 'Monkey Man' Chan Yat-biu went. But the eight-year-old rhesus monkey cannot follow her master into the next world.

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Opinion

Michael Cox

The 1-2 punch heard around the world

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Wang Xiangwei

Placating graduates a work in progress

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Taking liberties in the Year of the Monkey

It's the Year of the Monkey and a group of about 20 wild macaques were obviously taking advantage of the goodwill of superstitious New Territories' villagers when they ran amok in Hong Fan Liu...

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Pick of the day

Science Of Walking With Beasts: The Beasts Within

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Monkey trap snares the leader of the pack

A pack of wild monkeys who have been pestering residents in the New Territories have been stopped in their tracks after three males - including their leader - were trapped.

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Mainland has backing as origin of mammals

A new scientific study claims China is the ancestral birthplace of many species of mammals including horses, rhinoceroses, tapirs, and primates found in Europe and North America.

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Feeding monkeys could cost $10,000

Feeding the monkeys will draw a stiff fine from early next year.

Agriculture and Fisheries Department chiefs are to crack down on the practice in an effort to bring the burgeoning...

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Humans pupils in study of monkeys

One of the favourite animals for visitors to the Hong Kong Zoological and Botanical Gardens are the orang-utans. And that's partly because when you look into their eyes there is such a strong,...

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