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...hard to conclude that man's near relative has much to say. But researchers at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, writing in Nature last week, have concluded that monkeys do indeed use simple verbal communication. They observed male putty-nosed monkeys in Nigeria's Gashaka Gumti National Park and found the primates produced a series of calls containing two basic sounds to alert others to predators. "These calls were not produced randomly, and a number of distinct patterns emerged," says Kate Arnold, one of the researchers. "Pyow" warned that a leopard was loitering nearby, while "hack" indicated an eagle...
...more than 300,000. Now there are 1 million to 2 million. At the same time, the state's human population has exploded. As a result, development is pushing into wetlands that were once pure, alligator-friendly wilderness, and agriculture is draining huge swaths of alligator habitat. Everglades National Park is just one-seventh the size of the historic Everglades swampland, forcing the animals to share territory that humans consider their...
Police are investigating the disappearance of a Somerville resident who has reportedly been missing for nearly two weeks in a case where detectives have ruled out foul play. Jane Park, 23, who won a Fulbright scholarship after graduating from Wellesley College in 2004 and took classes at the Extension School this past fall, was last seen in Harvard Square on May 5, according to a missing-adult alert released by the Somerville Police Department. Park was first reported missing after her roommate had not seen or heard from Park in five days, said Christine Y. Teng...
...particularly miserable Saturday evening, FM slogged through 45-degree temperatures and driven rain to the Wonderland Greyhound Park, a sprawling, Bukowskiesque complex that, like most of its patrons, has seen better days...
Wonderland Greyhound Park is located across a vast and, in the rainy season, flooded parking lot from the Wonderland T stop on the Blue Line. Admission...