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from Guardian.co.uk: There comes a time in some men’s lives when the days seem darker, mortality more certain, and the only sensible response is to blow the life savings on a sportscar. Radical and often ill-advised changes in lifestyle have become the calling cards of the midlife crisis, but if it is more than a myth, then humans may not be the only animals to experience it. Now an international team of scientists [...] Around the world, doctors are wringing their hands over an obesity epidemic. But this isn’t the human outbreak you’re thinking of, nor are these the physicians you would envisage. Vets are seeing more and more overweight animals; the scale of the problem is now comparable to the human battle against the bulge. They treat increasingly portly ponies. They instruct owners not to overfeed chubby fish. They describe tortoises so fat they [...] MIAMI (AP) — The 8-year-old twins love their iPad. They draw, play games and expand their vocabulary. Their family’s teenagers also like the hand-held computer tablets, too, but the clan’s elders show no interest. The orangutans at Miami’s Jungle Island apparently are just like people when it comes to technology. The park is one of several zoos experimenting with computers and apes, letting its six orangutans use an iPad to communicate and as [...] http://tampa.cbslocal.com/2012/05/09/orangutans-at-miami-zoo-use-ipads-to-communicate/ MIAMI (AP) — The 8-year-old twins love their iPad. They draw, play games and expand their vocabulary. Their family’s teenagers also like the hand-held computer tablets, too, but the clan’s elders show no interest.
The orangutans at Miami’s Jungle Island apparently are just like people when it comes to technology. The park is one of several zoos experimenting with computers and apes, letting its six orangutans use an iPad to communicate and as [...] The sophisticated nest building skills of Orangutans exhibit a degree of technical knowledge to match those of the most talented birds, say scientists. The great apes construct large, oval nests in tree canopies where each evening they will curl up and sleep but little is known about their mechanical design. A year-long study of over a dozen nests on the Indonesian island of Sumatra has now shown the orangutans choose strong, rigid branches for the structural [...] ETHICAL EXPEDITIONS / AP From Time: Newly “rediscovered” Miller’s Grizzled Langurs sit on a tree branch in Wehea forest in eastern Borneo, Indonesia. Scientists working deep in the jungle of Indonesia have proven that, sometimes, the best discoveries happen by accident. Hoping to capture images of orangutans and leopards, the team set up cameras in the Wehea Forest on the eastern tip of Borneo island in June, the Associated Press reported. But upon viewing the [...] |
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