The Chinese believe that the year of the monkey is capricious and unpredictable.

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The long hours of monkey mothering don't bother the 54-year-old Colombian woman, she said, because she already raised two children.

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Mitalipov's breakthrough was the result of merging skin cells of a 9-year-old rhesus macaque male with unfertilized monkey eggs that had the DNA removed.

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The average monkey outperformed the index by an average of 1.7 percent per year since 1964.

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Amazingly, on average, 98 of the 100 monkey portfolios beat the 1, 000 stock capitalization weighted stock universe each year.

FORBES: Any Monkey Can Beat the Market