Anyone knows about baby orangutan's (Pongo pygmaeus) behaviour?
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i know they're a very playful young. they often run around the others, stirring them up and aggravating them. they're hilarious to watch
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I posted a link below that will give you some information on Sea Monkeys. I know they are a lot smaller than you expect at first anyway. Neat thing for kids to do.
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You are lucky... I found a website EXACTLY for this...\n\nHere is the link.... http://www.rabbit.org/faq/sections/orphan.html\n\nPlease do message me on how the baby rabbit is doing. Would be more than happy if you can even send some pictures...\n\nThanks..\n\n.:Fishie:.
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Ancient Behaviors Hard-Wired in Human Brain\n\nBy Robert Roy Britt\nLiveScience Senior Writer\n6 March 2005\n\nDon't blame your lame smile or lack of an intimidating frown on your upbringing, a new study suggests. Such behaviors may be hard-wired in your brain.\n\nScientists know many behaviors of lower organisms are innate. Ants instinctively follow other ants to a picnic basket. Birds operate largely on autopilot, dogs less so.\n\nIn people and monkeys, however, behavior is largely something learned, so researchers have assumed our hard-wiring is limited. If that's true, however, why do many reactions, such as aggression, play out the same among diverse populations around the world?\n\nScientists announced Tuesday they can elicit complex behaviors by stimulating specific areas in the brain of a small primate called the bush baby. Similar studies have been done on other primates.\n\n"We have now seen this feature in the brain of an Old World monkey and New World prosimian," said study leader Jon Kaas of Vanderbilt University. "The fact that it appears in the brains of two such divergent primates suggests that this form of organization evolved very early in the development of primates. That, in turn, suggests that it is characteristic of all primate brains, including the human brain."\n\nThe triggered behaviors include aggressive facial gestures, defensive arm movements, putting hand to mouth and other reaching and grasping movements -- all survival skills.\n\n"These results explain why certain behaviors – such as defensive and aggressive movements, smiling and grasping food – are so similar around the world," Kaas said. "It is because the instructions for these movements are built-in and not learned."\n\nThe results are detailed in the online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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Monkey likes to look!
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Humans are born a bit more prematurely than other apes.  The reason for this is our extra-large crania and the conflict with the size of mothers' birth canals.  That said, apes are still quite helpless at birth, but are capable of holding on to fur and helping stay attached to mom (though not nearly as much as many monkeys).  Human newborns are 100% reliant on adults to carry them about.\n\nThe simple answer is not quite, but close.  As mentioned before, non-human apes will also develop much more rapidly.
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one that is run by a chimp
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BF Skinner showed with his Skinner Box how Operant Conditioning works with simple animals: given a voluntary behavior (pushing a button), the animal will repeat the behavior if it is rewarded (given a food pellet or other reinforcer).  It is possible to get the simple animals pushing the button repeatedly if the reward is doled out on at least seemingly random intervals, but with enough payoff to continue reinforcing the button pushing behavior.\n\nThat said, either these humans are simple animals or they find annoying you with repeated button pushing enjoyable.\n\n;-)
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Galagos, also known as bushbabies, bush babies or nagapies (meaning "night monkeys" in Afrikaans), are small, nocturnal primates native to continental Africa, and make up the family Galagonidae. They are sometimes included as a subfamily within the Lorisidae or Loridae.\n\nThe name bush baby may come either from the animals' cries, or from their appearance. The South African Afrikaans name "nagapie" (night monkey), comes from the fact that they are almost exclusively seen at night.\n\nGalagos are agile leapers, and run swiftly along branches. They have large eyes that giving them good night vision, strong hind limbs, acute hearing, and long tails that help them balance. Their diet is a mixture of insects and other small animals, fruit, and tree gums.\n\nBush babies are born with half-closed eyes, unable to move about independently. After a few days, the mother carries the infant in her mouth, and leaves it on convenient branches while feeding.\n\nAdult females maintain territories, but share them with their offspring. Males leave their mothers' territories after puberty, but females remain, forming social groups consisting of closely related females and their immature young. Adult males maintain separate territories, which overlap with those of the female social groups; generally, one adult male mates with all the females in an area. Males who have not established such territories sometimes form small bachelor groups.\n\nGalagos communicate both by calling to each other, and by marking their paths with urine. At the end of the night, group members use a special rallying call and gather to sleep in a nest made of leaves, a group of branches, or a hole in a tree.
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I like purple monkeys. They only have one known preditor. That being the elgant yard gnome. Those gnomes can be mean!
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Hmm...monkeys are a tad not as smart as humans, they cannot speak, hairy, and extremely on the ugly side...humans are a bit more advanced, and i'll say that's your answer..:)
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Pygmy Mouse Lemur\nMicrocebus myoxinus
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Oh my gosh, let me tell you a little story about someone who was fond of "monkey business".  He must have done something the big monkeys didn't like cause they threw him out of the neighborhood.  Well, he was such a smart chimp, he changed his looks a little and he sneaked in over the fence when the big monkeys weren't looking.\nAnyway the chimp is back on his old block again, he was missed by the other chimps very much, and they were glad to see him back, and this sassy chimpette is wondering why it took her so long to discover he was back.
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A group of scientist placed five monkeys in a cage, in the centre of the cage they put stairs and, on it a cluster of bananas.\nWhen a monkey went up the stairs to grab the bananas, the scientists launched cold water in the ones that were in the soil. After certain time, when a monkey went up the stairs he would be beaten by the other monkeys.\nAfter sometime, no monkey tried to went up the stairs, despite the temptation for the bananas.\nThen the scientists substituted one of the 5 monkeys.\nThe first thing he did was go up the stairs, but he was quickly removed by the others that immediately start to beat him.\nAfter some beatings, he quit trying to go up the stairs.\nA second one was replaced and the same story occurred, having the first substitute participated, with enthusiasm, in the beating of the novice.\nOne third was substituted and the same fact happened.\nOne fourth and then the Last of the veterans was substituted.\nSo the scientists were now with a group of 5 monkeys that without ever having taken a cold bath, continued to beat the one that tried to go to the bananas.\nIf it was possible to ask to the monkeys why they beaten the one that tried to get up the stairs, the answer would probably be: "I don't know. Things were always like this around here..."\nSo sometimes we should ask ourselves why we do some things without thinking!\n\n" It is easier to disintegrate an atom than a prejudice!"\n(Albert Einstein)
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Well... I'm not quite sure exactly what you're looking for, but here's a few things to keep in mind...\nStructural adaptations...\nRetained a tail that some can use to support themselves while climbing of swinging from branch to branch,\nAposable "thumb" on their feet,\nBodies completely covered with hair for thermal insulation,\nTeeth are blunt and strong for grinding vegetation,\nAnd most monkeys walk on al fours.\n\nBehavioral adaptations...\nMany species are one male for many females, and they are territorial.  There is communal grooming to prevent infectious paracites.  \n\nThat's all I can think of at the moment... hope it helps!
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This is often thought of as heplful in the mating process. It gives a "target" of sorts. Kind of the same idea as baboon butts.
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Very little is unique to humans.  Most of what we consider "unique" is only something we do more of than other animals.\n\nFor instance, we're the smartest animals, but hardly the only smart ones.  Our brains are large, but the brains of many whales are larger.  Opposable thumbs are found in the other great apes at least.  Speech of a sort may be found in other animals, we can't really rule it out.\n\nSome of the answers received thus far are wrong.\n\nChimpanzees feel shame and blush.\n\nIt's not clear that other animals don't have philosophy or religion (how exactly would you tell?)\n\nOther animals seem self aware, or at least recognize that what they see in the mirror is "them".\n\nEmpathy is recorded from primates.\n\nChimpanzees have morals in as much as there are behaviors frowned upon socially amongst them.\n\nAnd as for bipedal, all birds, kangaroo, and kangaroo mice are bipedal.\n\nI sometimes suspect the only unique thing about humans is the arrogance to think we're unique.  :-)