Chimpanzees comfort one another after conflict. Bonobos use social bonds to reduce tension. Gorillas grieve. Orangutans teach their young for years. The more scientists study great apes, the more we discover reflections of ourselves. Great apes are not just fascinating animals. They are our closest living relatives, sharing deep evolutionary connections with humans. And through…
For four decades I have watched conservation efforts ebb and flow across the world of apes—mostly ebbing. Why? Traveling from one ape country to the next, I have asked myself why. Lack of justice, lack of laws, lack of effort—why? Stories! I think it is a lack of stories. Locally told stories. Stories that connect…
Thank you to everyone who joined us live for our special Talking Apes webinar. If you missed it, don’t worry, you can catch the full replay below. In this behind-the-scenes event, the Talking Apes team – Demelza (Assistant Producer), Maegan (Education Coordinator), and Gerry (Executive Director and Host of Talking Apes) – came together to…
Cover photo credit: Armas Fitra & TNGL & KLHK & MPI & UNAS & YEL BBC article on Rakus the self-medicating orangutan 8 Isabelle Laumer is a Cognitive Biologist and Primatologist with a strong interest in the evolution of cognitive abilities. For more than ten years, she has intensively studied great apes and parrots…
Orangutan Caring Week takes place every mid November to celebrate our beautiful and extraordinarily intelligent orange cousins. It’s also a time for raising awareness regarding the threats they face because, tragically, their numbers continue to plummet as vast areas of tropical rainforest are felled, burned, and converted to plantations for commodities like palm-oil. Unless these…
Talking Apes Podcast puts Orangutans In The Spotlight for Orangutan Caring Week. Orangutan Caring Week takes place every mid November to celebrate our beautiful and extraordinarily intelligent orange cousins. It’s also a time for raising awareness regarding the threats they face because, tragically, their numbers continue to plummet as vast areas of tropical rainforest are…
Can’t listen? Read the transcript below. Leif: We need the compassion and love to act the selfless action to help the world and others. But the other wing to the bird, we have to intelligently apply that love and action because indiscriminate charity causes more problems than one creates. This is why a vast…
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