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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. Remember Travis?

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Of Eagle Abduction

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It doesn’t take long for a human child to get too large to be suitable prey for most species, and nearly all raptors learned about being cautious of humans relatively early in our history as a weapon-wielding primate. I suspect that, like so many of what seem our primal instincts, the real basis is far more psychological.

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The Incredulous New Caledonian Crows

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This is something not seen in very young children but then typically develops and becomes observable and testable by psychology graduate students who have done innumerable studies on it. Even among our primate relatives, whoa are generally very smart, “Theory of Mind” is found in only a few species.

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