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Recovering Fukushima
A macaque monkey in a tree in Fukushima prefecture. After the 2011 nuclear disaster, towns and neighborhoods in Fukushima were left devoid of humans for years, and nature started to reclaim the space.

In Rural Fukushima, 'The Border Between Monkeys And Humans Has Blurred'

Sep 10, 2020
After people evacuated their homes following a nuclear disaster in the Japanese prefecture, nature started to reclaim the space. The humans are trying to return, but it's an uneasy coexistence.
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Shots - Health News
An MRI scan of a person listening to music shows brain areas that respond. (This scan wasn't part of the research comparing humans and monkeys.)

A Musical Brain May Help Us Understand Language And Appreciate Tchaikovsky

Jun 10, 2019
Compared with monkeys, humans have a brain that is extremely sensitive to a sound's pitch. And that may reflect our exposure to speech and music.
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How do we make sense of all that chatter?

How People Learned To Recognize Monkey Calls Reveals How We All Make Sense Of Sound

Apr 18, 2018
A brain imaging study of grown-ups hints at how children learn that "dog" and "fog" have different meanings, even though they sound so much alike.
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Shots - Health News
Zhong Zhong (left) and Hua Hua are the first primate clones made by somatic cell nuclear transfer, the same process that created Dolly the sheep in 1996.

Chinese Scientists Clone Monkeys Using Method That Created Dolly The Sheep

Jan 24, 2018
A team of researchers has produced two macaque monkey clones using a technique called somatic cell nuclear transfer. It's a first for primates. The advance could hasten research into human diseases.
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Goats and Soda
Never take Barbary macaques — or any nonhuman primate for that matter — at face value. That "smile" does not mean what you think it does.

When A Kiss Is Not A Kiss: Why So Many People Get Bitten By Monkeys

Jun 07, 2017
You might think a monkey is making a friendly face. The monkey, however, might have a very different message in mind.
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The Salt
Brown-headed spider monkeys have long, narrow limbs and a prehensile tail that is used as a fifth limb. They are found in the rainforests of Central and South America, including Ecuador.

Save The Monkeys, Save The Trees, Sell The Chocolate

Jan 30, 2017
An enterprise-minded ecologist from England is helping endangered brown-headed spider monkeys in Ecuador by connecting their preservation to high-end chocolate.
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Newscast headlines

Woman Arrested, 3 Tigers Seized From Rural Nevada Backyard

Nov 16, 2016

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Authorities say a woman who asked if it was legal to keep tigers at home in a rural Nevada town was arrested after sheriff's deputies found three tigers in her backyard in Pahrump.

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Monkey On Flight Bound For Las Vegas Causes Concern

Aug 10, 2016

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Airline officials say they called for help after a passenger was found stowing a monkey in his shirt during a Las Vegas-bound flight.

Frontier Airlines spokesman Richard Oliver says the incident happened Tuesday night on a flight from Columbus, Ohio to Las Vegas.

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The Two-Way
Pig-tailed macaques like these, seen in a German zoo, raided a voting place in Thailand on Sunday.

Primate Rampage: Monkeys Rip Up Voter Lists In Thailand

Jul 25, 2016
Some 100 pig-tailed macaques reportedly stormed into a temple and destroyed documents that are to be used in an upcoming national vote.
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The Two-Way
The culprit is believed to be a vervet monkey (though not this particular one, photographed in 2012 in Kenya's Maasai Mara).

Hapless Monkey Single-Handedly Triggers Nationwide Blackout In Kenya

Jun 08, 2016
A monkey stumbled into the largest hydropower station in East Africa and managed to set off a chain reaction that caused a countrywide blackout lasting more than three hours.
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The Two-Way
Mother and infant Bouvier's red colobus monkeys in a first-ever photograph of the primate taken in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The species was thought to have gone extinct in the 1970s.

Congo Monkey Spotted Decades After Species' Alleged Demise

Apr 19, 2015
Bouvier's red colobus monkey — thought to have disappeared for good from the forests of the Democratic Republic of Congo sometime in the 1970s — has been photographed by two researchers.
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