The Trouble with Tourists
Ecotourism has steadily increased in popularity over the past decade, with more and more travellers choosing vacations that bring them closer to exotic wildlife and uninhabited natural preserves. This increase […]
Ecotourism has steadily increased in popularity over the past decade, with more and more travellers choosing vacations that bring them closer to exotic wildlife and uninhabited natural preserves. This increase […]
Contributed by Izzy Hirji, Candidate, Doctorate of Veterinary Medicine. University of Guelph. It is an historic day to be celebrated today, and the end of an era for chimpanzees. I […]
In the summer 2011, I was working in Kibale National Park – a lush rainforest in Southern Uganda. Part of my PhD project involved following a group of red colobus […]
An important part of many conservation programs is running extensive surveys, to understand the biodiversity that presently lives in the conservation area. Wildlife surveys help conservationists understand both what lives […]
Written by Guest Contributor, Jesse Hildebrand. Chimpanzees laugh when tickled. That’s right – for those stealthy and foolhardy enough to sneak up on a chimp, it is indeed possible to […]
I was really fortunate to have the opportunity to listen to Dr. Goodall speak at Roy Thomson hall here in Toronto last month. When I initially found out Dr. Jane was […]
When I started my undergrad I knew I was interested in human evolution. This interest developed into a fascination with our closest relatives. I wanted to understand where we came […]
I have been thinking a great deal about happiness and how we can best study the happiness of our species. That is why a recent study on great ape mood […]
Many Michael Jackson fans might recall his iconic pet chimpanzee, Bubbles, with whom he was inseparable back in the late 1980s. Bubbles was never far from Jackson’s side, and often […]
Twenty-two-thousand-two-hundred-eighteen. That is how many great apes the United Nation’s Great Ape Survival Partnership estimates have been lost to illegal trading since 2005 (Stiles et al, 2013). This includes lives […]