Primates

Tiny Cousins of Humans: A new species discovered on a tropical island midway between Asia and Australia

Koko the gorilla uses sign language to make a request for oral surgery.

New evidence suggests that Miss Waldron's Red Colobus Monkey, last seen in 1978, may still exist.

Jane Goodall, the legendary researcher who has devoted her life to studying chimpanzees in Africa and educating the world about them, presented the annual L'Hommedieu Lecture at Rutgers College (on the Douglass Campus) on September 13th, 2000.

Scientists have pronounced that Miss Waldron's Red Colobus, a type of large West African monkey, is now extinct, making it the first primate to vanish in the 20th century.