Read more chimpanzees stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/5598/chimpanzees.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 10:09:32 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/73858/eyeless-chimp-victim-recounts-ordeal-on-oprah.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA woman viciously attacked early this year by a crazed pet chimpanzee discussed her ordeal and revealed her ravaged face on the Oprah Winfrey Show yesterday. Charla Nash lost her nose, lips, eyelid—and hands—in the attack by a Connecticut neighbor's chimp. Doctors also removed both eyes because of...http://www.newser.com/story/73858/eyeless-chimp-victim-recounts-ordeal-on-oprah.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 12 Nov 2009 2:30:00 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/73725/ex-editor-sues-racist-ny-post.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA former associate editor of the New York Post says she was fired for complaining about the paper’s racist and sexist atmosphere. Sandra Guzman, who identified herself as the “only female editor of color at the Post, ” is suing parent News Corp. Her suit claims she was among those who...http://www.newser.com/story/73725/ex-editor-sues-racist-ny-post.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 10 Nov 2009 17:56:27 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/70751/fossil-find-shakes-up-evolution-timeline.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA primate fossil found in Africa in 1994 predates the famous “Lucy” skeleton by 1 million years and offers clues to human evolution, researchers say. “This is huge,” a paleoanthropologist tells the Washington Post . “This is the biggest discovery really since” Lucy. The researchers believe “Ardi”— Ardipithecus ramidus —lived in...http://www.newser.com/story/70751/fossil-find-shakes-up-evolution-timeline.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 01 Oct 2009 11:51:07 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/68386/chimps-lions-saved-from-calif-inferno.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagVolunteers leaped to the rescue yesterday as the gigantic Station fire approached a home for exotic animals north of Los Angeles. Rescuers drove trucks, horse trailers, and an 18-wheeler Budweiser truck to the Wildlife Waystation to help evacuate its tigers, lions, bears, ostriches and other animals to the Los Angeles...http://www.newser.com/story/68386/chimps-lions-saved-from-calif-inferno.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 02 Sep 2009 3:59:19 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/66019/malaria-jumped-from-chimps-to-humans.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe parasite that causes malaria almost certainly jumped from chimpanzees to humans much like the AIDS virus did, National Geographic reports. Scientists initially believed that the malaria parasite that kills over a million people annually was older than humanity. But new research has found that it is a mutant version...http://www.newser.com/story/66019/malaria-jumped-from-chimps-to-humans.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 04 Aug 2009 2:53:07 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/65048/chimps-can-get-aids-study.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagScientists have found evidence that chimpanzees can be sickened by SIV, the non-human version of HIV, adding to the understanding of how HIV/AIDS developed, the AP reports. Scientists have long believed that while other primates can contract simian immunodeficiency virus, they are not affected by it. A 9-year study of...http://www.newser.com/story/65048/chimps-can-get-aids-study.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 22 Jul 2009 15:44:19 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/64716/goodall-environment-near-point-of-no-return.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe LA Times catches up with chimp guru Jane Goodall, who argues in a new book that that the world is nearly "at the point of no return" on the environment, but that political will can turn things around. Interview excerpts: On the environment: "When I began there was no...http://www.newser.com/story/64716/goodall-environment-near-point-of-no-return.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSat, 18 Jul 2009 15:41:13 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/64220/like-most-humans-jackos-bubbles-retired-in-fla.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagHe sat in the studio as the "Bad" album was recorded, dined with countless celebrities, and was once perhaps the world's most famous chimp. But like so many oldsters, today Michael Jackson's onetime pal Bubbles lives a quiet life in the retirement haven of Florida, reports the Miami Herald .http://www.newser.com/story/64220/like-most-humans-jackos-bubbles-retired-in-fla.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 13 Jul 2009 5:56:11 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/63068/whatever-happened-to-jackos-bubbles.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagIn the wake of Michael Jackson’s death, Neal Rubin of the Detroit News wondered: Whatever happened to Bubbles the chimpanzee? “For a while, Bubbles appeared to be Jackson’s best friend, which was sort of sad for both of them,” Rubin writes. The odd coupling lasted from 1985, when Jackson adopted...http://www.newser.com/story/63068/whatever-happened-to-jackos-bubbles.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 29 Jun 2009 9:49:15 CDT