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“Apes like chimpanzees, gorillas, and orangutans aren't monkeys. One easy way to tell them apart is that apes don't have tails.”

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Reference: Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History

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A new study found that male monkeys will give up their juice rewards in order to ogle pictures of female monkey's bottoms. The way the experiment was set up, the act is akin to paying for the images, the researchers say.

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