Baby Gorilla Takes a Bath in Unearthed Vintage News Clip [VIDEO]
In this news segment from 1967, a baby gorilla named Joe takes a bath in England's Twycross Zoo.
In this news segment from 1967, a baby gorilla named Joe takes a bath in England's Twycross Zoo.
If you think you're having a lousy day, buck up. It's about to get better.
In this German-language news clip, lab chimps who've been caged indoors their entire lives venture outside for the very first time, reveling in the unfamiliar sensations of warm sunbeams and total freedom of movement. In other words, things the rest of us ingrates take for granted.
Chimpanzees are generally fearful of water, which makes the fact that Cooper the chimpanzee has learned to swim quite a feat. But that he's also learned to breathe underwater with a SCUBA tank is truly incredible.
In a clear case of monkey-see-monkey-do, this ape seems desperate to fire off a text message from an iPhone.
Dodo, a two-year old male chimp who resides in a animal park in Thailand, has been trained to bottle feed the zoo's tiger cubs.
He's been doing this inter-species act of parenting for about a year now, although his trainer concedes that the young chimp sometimes ignores his feeding tasks and just wants to play with the cubs.