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Jakarta's Performing Monkeys Fall on Hard Times

No one does monkey business quite like Jakarta, Indonesia, where real monkeys do real business, earning their nut -- literally -- performing out on the streets of the capital city every day. And it's a tough gig. The monkeys, coaxed by human trainers, perform stock sketches using weathered props such as toy motor bikes,...

Tainted Razors May Have Been Sent to Researcher

(Nov. 24) -- An animal rights group says it sent "bloody, AIDS-tainted razor blades" to a UCLA neuroscientist who's been a frequent target of extremist violence because of his research on monkeys. The University of California at Los Angeles said it's investigating the incident and confirmed that David Jentsch, a UCLA...

A Monkey Riding a Parrot? It Happens!

(Nov. 19) -- The phrase "I've got a monkey on my back" is being taken literally among animals in captivity. Recently in San Agustin, Colombia, a lazy monkey started doing the animal kingdom's version of shacking up with a male and female parrot at a countryside hotel. The owners of the hotel says the squirrel monkey eats...

HIV Origins in Monkeys Go Back at Least 32,000 Years

(Sept. 17) -- The origins of HIV/AIDS can now be traced back at least 32,000 years to African monkeys infected with a precursor to the virus, scientists report. The mystery is how that precursor persisted for centuries and posed relatively little risk to humans before evolving into the virus that causes AIDS and now...

Wikipedia Tells FBI to Check Its Source

(Aug. 3) -- So, you get a letter from the FBI asking you to comply with a demand, or face "further legal action." Most people would be reaching for the Depends adult diapers right then, if they hadn't soiled themselves already. But not Wikipedia. When the FBI sent the user-generated encyclopedia a letter demanding that...