Reddit Animals
MARCH 30, 2024
All living primates, with the exception of humans, have opposable big toes, which allow the feet to grasp objects just like the hands and are a crucial tool for climbing trees. They don’t use their palms to support themselves when doing this; instead, they use their knuckles.
Critter News
OCTOBER 6, 2009
“Without giving away the name so we don't get sued, we modeled the diet after a fast-food value meal,” Comuzzie said Thursday at a 10th birthday celebration for the Southwest National Primate Research Center, which maintains the foundation's massive colony of baboons, monkeys and chimps. Tags: primates medical research. Oh brother.
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10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 27, 2018
Few things are more frightening to contemplate than an ambush predator that, by nature, strikes without warning using its own deadly killing tools with efficient, lethal expertise. Similar to Corvids and primates in more than one way, toucans are smart, very social frugivores that also feed on any small animals they can manage to catch.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 18, 2012
Even among our primate relatives, whoa are generally very smart, “Theory of Mind” is found in only a few species. The researchers set up a feeding box from which a Crow might attempt to extract food, and placed near the box sticks that these tool-using birds could use to extract the food.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 6, 2018
Utilizing a mixed bag of human and primate sex studies, literature, myth, and the Old Testament, Prum muses on the evolution of the penis, the female orgasm, male-female sexual conflict and same-sex relationships. Much of this, as Prum himself admits, is speculative and it is far less compelling than the ornithological chapters.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 25, 2011
Birds have been proven to have the abilities to form abstract concepts, make tools, remember the past and plan for the future…I’m sure this is just the tip of the iceburg for what we may discover about them in our lifetimes. has gained a solid foothold in the scientific community.
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