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Stupid TLC Show Called "My Monkey Baby"

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There are hundreds of videos on the Internet of proud parents enjoying their monkeys, and an estimated 15,000 monkeys live with humans as pets or surrogate children in the United States. And in some cases, monkey babies are more than pets: They are sons and daughters. Who suffers? Stupid TLC.

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Selling Birds Short: A Heretical View Of Avian Intelligence

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But many people who live closely with animals, whether as some of the more open-minded researchers or your average pet owners, have always been well aware that this simply isn’t true. This has all sorts of implications on learning and being more resistant to the mental effects of aging that mammals suffer from.

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