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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Ling was in heat, an event that lasts a scant five days each spring. So a team of 13, including Head Veterinarian Mitchell Bush and Anesthesiologist Michael Abramowitz of the Washington, D.C., Children's Hospital, gathered around the lady. Ling-Ling was anesthetized, then inseminated with approximately 3.2 cc of semen that had been collected from Hsing-Hsing last year and frozen. (Fresh semen had been collected from Hsing-Hsing shortly before the insemination, but the sperm count was considered too low for conception.) To improve the odds that the artificial union would work, the team inseminated Ling-Ling...
...vocal communication between the member animals. Such socialization would have put stresses on them, requiring them to be more assertive, courageous and competitive than if they had lived by themselves-which in turn could have fostered brain growth. Indeed, says Kay, Aegyptopithecus' cranial capacity of about 30 cc (1.8 cu. in.) was larger, relative to its body size, than that of any of its mammalian contemporaries...
...Colorado Springs, however, charging back from a 4-0 deficit after the opening 20 minutes with three power-play markers-- two slapshots from the point by Fusco, and one by Bobby Fowkes--during a penalty- filled second period. (Officials whistled 30 minors on the night, 18 against CC and 12 on Harvard...