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Do Animals Laugh?

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Researchers tickled babies and six different kinds of apes, quantified their giggles, and found that the patterns fit a classic evolutionary tree. Those patterns hint at the ancient origins of human hilarity and suggest that other social species - including apes, dogs and rats - really, truly laugh as well.

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Why I Question Animal Testing 2.2

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I do not claim to have the answer, but I think it is certainly worthwhile to raise the question: Why, exactly, all over the civilized world, in virtually every major city, are apes in prison? Tags: animal experimentation animal research. The natural experiment must have been tried very infrequently, at least recently.

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