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24 Hours (or so) in Kuala Lumpur

10,000 Birds

Finally my luck changed in the form of a troop of Silvered Langurs , a lovely species of leaf-monkey with dark black fur that contrasts astonishingly with the bright orange fur of youngsters. This was a family I have wanted to see since I first saw their pictures in a guide book ten years earlier, and made the day for me.

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The Emotional Lives of Animals

4 The Love Of Animals

I wondered what in the world he’d brought back and discovered the wet ball of fur was a very young bunny. Harvard University psychologist Marc Hauser observed what could be called embarrassment in a male rhesus monkey. Jethro continued to make direct eye contact with me as if he were saying, “Do something.&# Raven Justice?

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