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#Monkey Business
# monkey-business - Friday 5 April, 2019
Gardaí seize guns, drugs and George the monkey during gangland searches in Dublin
The raids were carried out this morning.
# monkey-business - Saturday 30 June, 2018
Ice pops and mud baths: Keeping Dublin Zoo's residents cool in the heatwave
Lounging by the pool is an activity all mammals seem to enjoy.
# monkey-business - Sunday 8 April, 2018
In Malaysia you can send your macaque to a school where it learns how to pick fruit
For a small fee people across the country send their macaques to the famed school.
# monkey-business - Saturday 17 February, 2018
Scores of monkeys are wrongly being killed in Rio in a yellow fever panic
Mosquitoes are actually, in fact, those who transmit the yellow fever virus, not monkeys.
# monkey-business - Tuesday 30 January, 2018
Volkswagen suspends lobbyist after reports researchers made monkeys inhale diesel fumes
The monkeys were watching cartoons at the time.
# monkey-business - Saturday 27 January, 2018
Paris zoo reopens after 50 escaped baboons found
The breakout was first noticed by a zoo worker, who saw the animals gathering in a service corridor.
# monkey-business - Sunday 21 January, 2018
Using monkeys and apes in film and TV is 'misleading' millions of viewers
A third of people surveyed think that chimpanzees are not endangered because they star in films and TV shows often.
# monkey-business - Tuesday 12 September, 2017
British photographer wins court battle over monkey selfie
Peta had argued that the monkey called Naruto owned the copyright to the photo.
# monkey-business - Wednesday 12 July, 2017
'Where does it end?': Selfie-taking monkey at centre of copyright lawsuit
Pictures taken by the monkey ended up in a wildlife book.
# monkey-business - Friday 17 February, 2017
Elderly monk on the run as Thai police investigate multi-million euro scam
Police found a 1.5 kilometre tunnel, split into two routes, dug under the UFO-like temple that dominates the site.
# monkey-business - Sunday 12 February, 2017
Preparations underway to try contraceptive gel on men after it worked with monkeys
The gel has proven effective in rabbits and now also in rhesus monkeys – more closely related and anatomically similar to humans.
# monkey-business - Wednesday 11 January, 2017
Research reveals 'highly unusual' behaviour of male monkey trying to have sex with female deer
The study is only the second on the phenomenon of inter-species sex.
# monkey-business - Saturday 21 May, 2016
How one rescued chimp inspired an entire 100-acre sanctuary
The story of Bruno is more than just a tale of man rescues chimp. It changed the way people think about conservation in a country blighted by poor development.
# monkey-business - Tuesday 14 April, 2015
Don't fly your drone near chimps, or bad things will happen
Primates not putting up with your sh*t – this chimp.
# monkey-business - Saturday 4 April, 2015
These male monkeys like hanging out with the lads
Scientists have observed the behaviour in the rhesus macaque species.
# monkey-business - Wednesday 25 March, 2015
Two monkeys have escaped from Belfast Zoo and are running wild
We still don’t know how they broke out.
# monkey-business - Sunday 14 December, 2014
# monkey-business - Friday 10 October, 2014
Ah nothing, just a little monkey having a shower in a sink
Water charges or no, she’s getting clean.
# monkey-business - Wednesday 20 August, 2014
Staff at this Roscommon hotel are taking VERY good care of this lost teddy
Can we be left behind here, please?
# monkey-business - Thursday 31 July, 2014
India hires men dressed as monkeys to scare off real monkeys
“Very talented” monkey impersonators are being paid to scare marauding monkeys from buildings in Delhi.
# monkey-business - Tuesday 24 June, 2014
Dublin Zoo celebrates arrival of (very cute) baby Goeldi's monkey
The tiny monkey has been keeping so close to its mother that zookeepers don’t know yet if it is male or female.
# monkey-business - Thursday 15 May, 2014
Watch as a male tamarin at Dublin Zoo adopts marmoset babies
The emotions. So many emotions.
# monkey-business - Saturday 3 May, 2014
Four out of five stolen monkeys returned to Blackpool Zoo
Unfortunately, the youngest tamarin was not found.
# monkey-business - Saturday 26 April, 2014
Chat show host teases monkey and gets a slap in return
Just give the monkey the damn grapes.
# monkey-business - Wednesday 12 February, 2014
Our chimps are NOT on the pill, say Dublin Zoo
The zoo has denied reports that female chimps were using contraceptives.
# monkey-business - Tuesday 10 December, 2013
One year on, we remember the IKEA monkey
Where is Darwin now? Has he grown out of his little coat?
# monkey-business - Wednesday 25 September, 2013
Baboon fondles reporter on live TV, is delighted with himself
He’s some cheek.
# monkey-business - Friday 2 August, 2013
The mystery of the traumatised baboons at a Dutch zoo
“They became panicked at the end of the day on Monday, they were hysterical, not jumping around but behaving strangely”.
# monkey-business - Thursday 18 April, 2013
VIDEO: Orangutan rips t-shirt off tourist...
…and wears it on his head.
# monkey-business - Sunday 7 April, 2013
US Army's Tojo the Monkey gets his own statue in Cork
Have you heard the one about the flying fortress and the monkey?
# monkey-business - Monday 28 January, 2013
Iran's space monkey doesn't look happy
This little guy is the Yuri Gagarin of Iran’s monkeys. He looks pretty unhappy about that, though.
# monkey-business - Monday 10 December, 2012
Monkey found at Ikea... wearing nice warm coat and nappy
It was described as a “smart monkey”.
# monkey-business - Friday 23 November, 2012
It's Friday, so here's a slideshow of macaques from around the world
It feels like Fridays were made for ‘ooohing’ and ‘aaahing’ over cute macaques and their antics.
# monkey-business - Monday 10 September, 2012
# monkey-business - Monday 4 July, 2011
No humps for Fergie at Oxegen as band labels own song "rubbish"
Black Eyed Peas ditch “most annoying song of all time” from their Oxegen play list.
# monkey-business - Wednesday 20 October, 2010
Escaped chimp attacks US police car (video)
Three-hundred-pound animal smashed cop’s windscreen after climbing onto the bonnet.
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