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My closest brush with motherhood was an intense 24 hours fostering an orphaned baby owl monkey in the Peruvian Amazon in 2009. According to Charles Darwin, my maternal drive should have transformed me ...

Frans de Waal, a primatologist and emeritus professor at Emory University, is the author of Different: Gender Through the Eyes of a Primatologist Why treat fatherhood as a miracle? This was my ...

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Hunting is considered critical to human evolution by many researchers who believe that several characteristics that distinguish humans from our closest ...

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Walt Disney World is saying "jambo" to its "newest addition to the savanna," at Disney's Animal Kingdom theme park, Tucker. The baby boy giraffe was recently born to mother Mara, a Masai giraffe, and ...

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