A wildlife camp in Dundee, Scotland did more than ask for a moment of silence after the youngest member of their troop of loin-tailed macaques died recently—they shut the entire park down for a week, to give the animals time to mourn. The facility wrote that they were going to use the time to “work with the animals quietly (and) allow the macaques time to carry out (their grieving) process,” which includes guarding the preening the body of the dead macaque. Let’s hope no one ever tells them about “King Kong,” especially that awful “Skull Island” reboot. They see that, and we could be living in a real-life “Battle for The Planet of the Apes.”
It’s been six years since the tragic death of Amy Winehouse, but her father insists she still talks to him. Mitch Winehouse, the late singer’s father and something of a villain in the documentary “Amy,” tells the Sun that the ghost of his daughter is a regular visitor. Sometimes her spirit will show up and sit on the edge of his bed in his hime in Kent, England; other times she appears as a bird that looks much like the one she had tattooed on her arm. According to Mitch, she never actually speaks, but “it is comforting in a way to know she is here and around me.” 
Finally, Paul Stark, an 80-year-old man living in a hospice in Huron, Ohio died recently. Obviously that’s not news, but his obituary insists that one of the causes of his death was the woeful play of the Cleveland Browns. The storied NFL team has been something less than wonderful the past few season, putting up a 1-15 record last season and going winless in the regular season that ended on Sunday. Even in death, Stark remains a fan, as the notice said he “passed just before the Browns were prepared to turn the corner.”
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