Lemurs are primates so distantly related to humans they look more like cats than monkeys.

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It is the perfect place for Idea Monkeys like me and the (Ring)leaders who keep them on track.

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Experiments carried out at Erasmus University in the Netherlands have shown that a coronavirus taken from SARS patients produces SARS-like symptoms in monkeys.

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Like children, the monkeys feel they "need to get the same thing as somebody else, " de Waal said.

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After admiring the lion pride, we crisscross the park's dirt roads, passing birds (there are 300 bird species in Gir), langur monkeys with whip-like tails and docile chital (Bambi-esque spotted deer).

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The researchers need to perform a more realistic test to see if the vaccine indeed protects monkeys exposed to an AIDS-like virus.

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Green, black, white, oolong, hundred-year-old Pooair(ph) tea, teas that bloom like flowers in hot water, tea that is picked by monkeys on dangerous mountain cliffs.

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Researcher Keith Chen at the Yale School of Organization and Management grabbed headlines last summer when he released a study showing that capuchin monkeys could be trained to use shiny metal disks just like human money.

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Those were bigger honors than big budget blockbusters like Halo 4 and Borderlands 2 received (each took home a pair of vector monkeys).

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Coldplay top the list with their 2003 track Clocks, ahead of Arctic Monkeys' I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor and Elbow's One Day Like This.

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