For the past six years, adultHanuman langurs in Jodhpur, Rajasthan, have been found to deliver quadruplets. Scientists working with the Indo-US Primate Projectare at present exploring the cause
Forest fires have been mainly responsible for wiping out 30 per cent of the orangutan population in the forests of Borneo. The reason for the decline in primate numbers, which presently stands at
The sarcoptic mange (an itching disease that afflicts hairy and wooly animals) epidemic that killed several infant chimpanzees a few years ago in Tanzania's Gombe National Park is "most likely over",
About 100 of the world's remaining mountain gorillas have been killed as a result of the protracted civil war in the Democratic Republic of Congo, say conservationists. Poachers have slaughtered
A story about the return of the orangutans from the concrete jungle to the wild woods to be what they were meant and named to be each a man of the woods