Chimps mourn death of fellow primate in display of grief How sad this is

Chimps mourn death of fellow primate in display of grief

Chimps line up to watch as Dorothy, who died of heart failure, is wheeled away


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UNITED in what appears to be deep and profound grief, more than a dozen chimpanzees stand in silence as the body of one of their own is wheeled past.
This extraordinary scene took place at the Sanaga-Yong Chimpanzee Rescue Centre in Cameroon, west Africa, when a chimp named Dorothy, who was in her late 40s, died of heart failure.
Her death seemed to have left her fellow chimpanzees stricken by sorrow.
As they wrapped their arms around each other in a gesture of solidarity, Dorothy's keeper gently settled her into the wheelbarrow which carried her to her final resting place - but not before a final affectionate stroke of her forehead...

The Falklands Wolf: A Darwin Mystery Solved


When Charles Darwin’s reached the Falkland Islands on his famed voyage, he discovered there a “large wolf-like fox” found nowhere else in the world. “As far as I am aware,” he would later write in , The Voyage of the Beagle


“there is no other instance, in any part of the world, of so small a mass of broken land, distant from a continent, possessing so large an aboriginal quadruped peculiar to itself.” The human population on the island, however, was quickly increasing and the canid’s numbers were dwindling. Darwin predicted the species would soon go the way of the dodo, and he was right. The species went extinct in 1876, killed off for its fur and to protect the sheep sheep population.

Since Darwin’s time, scientists have puzzled over his wolf-like canid, now known as the Falklands wolf. The species was the only native terrestrial mammal found on the island; there were no mice or porcupines or deer. And the islands lie 300 miles from the mainland. Where did the wolf come from and how did it get to the Falklands? Could Native Americans have brought the wolves to the island...

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Researchers ponder safety of nanotechnology

Call for tests after sudden death

Senior doctors are calling for human tissue to be routinely kept for genetic testing in cases where young people die without explanation.
They say the DNA from such samples may reveal an unsuspected inherited condition and save relatives' lives.
One doctor said pathologists should be encouraged to take the tissue and ask for consent later if necessary.
But the Human Tissue Authority said it was "alarmed" about public calls for practitioners to break the law.....

Victims' families gather in Rio for memorial service

A private memorial service near Rio de Janeiro takes place on Saturday for the European and Brazilian families of the 228 people who died in the fated Air France 447 flight in June


The Paris-bound flight left Rio de Janeiro late May on 31 and disappeared off the radar somewhere above the Atlantic. The Airbus A330 was carrying 216 passengers and a crew of 12 on board. They came from 32 countries and included 72 French citizens, 58 Brazilians and 26 Germans.