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• Attack of the Monkey Children

  When your children get older and (finally!) move out of the house, what are your plans? a)    Move to a smaller place b)    Turn their room into a casino c)    Adopt a monkey No, I didn't make that last one up. Amazingly, there are people that, when confronted with so-called "empty nest" syndrome, decide that the thing to do is to adopt a monkey. Read More... Posted Jul 01 2008, 04:00 PM by Brett Singer with | with 8 comment(s) Filed under: children, television, youtube, news, tv, orlando, parents, Google, ABC, florida, wtf, pets, monkeys, boingboing, Brett Singer, surrogate, jim johnson, sentinel, monkey, lori johnson, primetime, abc news, capuchin

• New Cure For Sleep-Deprivation On The Horizon?

  For the nine months I nursed my twins, I lived in an almost constant state of sleep-deprivation.  And I tried everything I could think of:  caffeine, showers, the old-fashioned, self-administered series of slaps to the cheek.  I could have used the help of researchers at the Wake Forest University School of Medicine, who recently announced they reversed the effects of sleep deprivation in monkeys with a chemical naturally occurring in our own brains. Read More... Posted Jan 03 2008, 04:29 PM by Amy S.F. Lutz with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: sleep deprivation, monkeys, brain, peptides

• Book of the Week: "Goodnight, Me" by Andrew Daddo

  When I visited the zoo with a friend this spring, she was totally delighted by her newborn's resemblance to the baby monkeys. At the time, I thought this was a little weird. But now I have to admit that there's something endearing about babies' monkey-like traits -- and that something is totally captured by Goodnight, Me (Bloomsbury 2007). The book, written by Andrew Daddo and illustrated by Emma Quay, follows the bedtime ritual of the world's cutest baby orangutan. Read More... Posted Nov 08 2007, 10:15 AM by Gwynne Watkins with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: book of the week, monkeys, emma quay, goodnight me, andrew daddo

• Who's Smarter? Babies and Chimps Go Head to Head

  Some really really smart people got together and decided, hey, people aren't so touchy anymore about that evolution stuff, so let's find out who's smarter, a chimpanzee or a toddler? So guess who won?   Read More... Posted Sep 08 2007, 08:39 AM by Karen Murphy with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: toddlers, monkeys, intelligence tests, chimpanzees