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...healthy, two-pound squirrel monkey that escaped from Harvard’s New England Primate Resource Center (NEPRC) last month was found dead by the side of the road last month, according to the NEPRC...
Each aspect of Pirates shows care and brio. An early sword fight, full of seesaws and somersaults, displays a burly, balletic grace. There's a fine cast of supporting scoundrels, including a pirate parrot and a monkey with vampire teeth. Barbossa's ship has a haunted grandeur and, under moonlight, a timber-shivering secret to reveal...
...confirmed or suspected cases of monkey pox have been identified...
Common wisdom holds that you should never invest in a stock mutual fund that has less than a three-year record--no matter how well the fund performed the previous year or two. Even a monkey throwing darts has a 50% shot at superior returns over one year, and the ape's odds of doing well over two years remain uncomfortably high. Do you really want to take the chance that your fund manager is nothing more than a lucky primate? Of course not. But you don't want to rule out potential winners either. New evidence suggests that young...
...Noam Chomsky, in his review of a book by the behaviorist B.F. Skinner, argued that it was impossible to learn human language by trial and error alone; human beings must come already equipped with an innate grammatical skill. Harry Harlow did a simple experiment that showed that a baby monkey prefers a soft, cloth model of a mother to a hard, wire-frame mother, even if the wire-frame mother provides it with all its milk; some preferences are innate...