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...nation’s longest winning streak. It was the longest streak in Harvard women’s hockey history since the 2003-04 squad won its first 11 contests and went undefeated through its first 14 games en route to the NCAA title game. “The monkey is off our back now about being undefeated,” tri-captain Caitlin Cahow said. “When you’re in that situation, you sometimes think more about the win-loss column than about how you are playing.” But one record that wasn?...

Author: By Rebecca A. Compton, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: SIDEBAR: Escalating Rivalry | 12/16/2007 | See Source »

...travel bowls, chews that act as doggy dental floss, and Santa-themed holiday pet bandanas. There's a vet clinic and an obedience school on site. In the brightly lit kennels, where a one-year-old fluffy little Bichon Frise mix might sit sweetly alongside an adorable stuffed gray monkey on a pink blanket in a two-room suite, you're already so charmed that it seems perfectly logical to pay $135 for a pound...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Personality Test for Pets | 12/14/2007 | See Source »

...ability to behave altruistically or spitefully benefits an individual in the long term. Consideration of inequalities in rewards is common among humans, but Foreman’s question is whether perceived inequality could make tamarins engage in spiteful behavior, sacrificing a small reward in order to deny another monkey a larger...

Author: By Michal Labik and Kevin C. Leu, CONTRIBUTING WRITERSS | Title: Testing Monkeys—for Jealousy | 12/13/2007 | See Source »

...Foreman has found that tamarins will, around 5 to 10 percent of the time, deny themselves one Froot Loop if accepting it would trigger a reward of four Froot Loops to another monkey...

Author: By Michal Labik and Kevin C. Leu, CONTRIBUTING WRITERSS | Title: Testing Monkeys—for Jealousy | 12/13/2007 | See Source »

...monkey, Hauser says, had found a particularly efficient way to mark her territory...

Author: By Michal Labik and Kevin C. Leu, CONTRIBUTING WRITERSS | Title: Testing Monkeys—for Jealousy | 12/13/2007 | See Source »

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