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Just positing a question/theory about primates/apes.

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I was just watching a video online. It was specifically a video about the primate or ape Gigantopithecus. Is Big foot really a very large, very heavy monkey? And I am completely intrigued. The way they described it made it seem that line was kind of blurred there. So, it died out. This is fact. Sasquatch aka: Gigantopithecus.

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Stupid TLC Show Called "My Monkey Baby"

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It's a TLC show about humans that adopt monkeys and treat them as their children. Monkey business is big business in the United States, where some people pay up to $5,000 to adopt a monkey of their own, often a capuchin monkey, which can grow up to 22 inches and 9 pounds. This is seriously weird stuff. Who suffers?

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Pam Anderson Urges End to India's Animal Testing

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Sounds like she watched a harsh video. Former Baywatch star and model Pamela Anderson has accused one of India's most prestigious research centres of animal cruelty, urging it to retire decades-old test monkeys and adopt humane practices. Her letter to the Indian research facility is pretty distressing.

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Of Eagle Abduction

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When I emerged from my bedroom I learned what you, no doubt, as a regular reader have already deduced – it was the now-infamous “Eagle Steals a Baby” hoax video. Joking aside, the instant viral popularity of this video seems to me to be speaking to some deep-rooted fears in the human psyche.

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USHS Alleges Animal Abuse at the University of Louisiana New Iberia Research Laboratory

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They have video. The video footage shows monkeys biting themselves and slamming against the bars of small cages. Here is a link to the Humane Society. I couldn't get the video to work for some reason. Actually, it's more then allegations. It is the nation’s largest primate research lab that studies chimpanzees.

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Potpourri of Amazing Bird Science

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BBC has the story as a video. That means crows join humans, apes and monkeys in exhibiting advanced relational thinking, according to the research. But in Iraq, and more exactly, Kurdistan and Iraqi Kurdistan, they are supposed to be there (and are regularly hunted and eaten) and the fighting is not supposed to be there.

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Ethiopia’s Endemics

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They will take carrion and scraps, so often hang around habitations, emitting their curious video-arcade like contact calls. They have a complex social structure, the study of which has been of great relevance in analyzing the evolution of human social behavior. Flocks of cheerful birds frequent caves and cliffs where they breed.

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