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Kyle Memoir 🍉

I’ve begun to wonder:

Do great apes in the wild show any signs of environmental stewardship?

Or are they genetically and/or culturally (learned or adopted behaviourally) inclined to eat until there’s no choice but to move on?

The human ape seems not to give a shit; it’s: eat everything; move elsewhere.

And it’s not just Trump.

Millions upon millions of us.

Billions.

How come?

#environnement#primates#primatology
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The Inquisitive Biologist

This week's #NewBooks at the library: three very different books:
- After reviewing Playing Possum about animal understanding of death, I obtained a copy of The Infanticide Controversy from the University of Chicago Press
- A second-hand copy of Ecological Consequences of Artificial Night Lighting from Island Press
- And J.R.R #Tolkien: Artist & Illustrator from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

#Books #Scicomm #Bookstodon #Primatology #Ecology @bookstodon

A photo of three books standing on a small brown wooden table. On the left, lying down, is Ecological Consequences of Artificial Night Lighting showing a blue evening sky with the silhouette of a skeletal tree. In the middle, standing upright, is J.R.R. Tolkien: Artist & Illustrator. THe cover showing one of his fantasy waterpaintings that shows a large mountain with a small boat in the sea sailing past it in front. On the right, lying down, is The Infanticide Controversy. Though poorly visible, the cover shows a black-and-white photo of a female primatologist in an elevated position observing a monkey. The out-of-focus background shows black shelves full of books and part of the golden-brown-hued laminate floor.
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Barbara J. King

Thanks to @PopularScience for including my thoughts in this piece on animals' responses to death. That pull quote, "Grief is not just a human thing," is mine. Good perspectives from primatology colleagues in here too! popsci.com/environment/animal-
#animals #grief #death #science #primates #primatology #anthropology

Popular Science · How animals react to death: From vigils to cannibalism‘Grief is not just a human thing.’
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Josh Wells

"Editor's Summary: The ability to vocally label other individuals from your species and to learn these labels from others is a high-level cognitive function. Previously, this behavior has only been known to exist in humans, dolphins, and some parrot species ... Marmosets used these vocalizations to label their conspecifics ... They also perceived and responded correctly to calls that were specifically directed at them."
#primatology #evolution #anthropology

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GesineSchulz

❣️ 30 stillende Mütter sollen Orang Utan Mujur ermutigen und lehren, ihr neugeborenes Orang Utan-Baby zu stillen.

🦧 Dublin Zoo enlists help of breastfeeding mothers to encourage female orangutan bond with her newborn. Group of 30 mothers took turns to breastfeed in front of the animal in the hope was that they could teach Mujur irishtimes.com/ireland/dublin/ (paywall)

The Irish Times · Dublin Zoo enlists help of breastfeeding mothers to encourage female orangutan bond with her newbornBy Olivia Kelleher
#Spiegelneuronen#MirrorNeurons#OrangUtan
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