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Just chiming in to say how beautifully this new discovery- an orangutan carefully and intentionally salving his cheek wound with plant medicine- underscores that fieldwork (led here by biologist Dr Isabella Laumer) reveals new wonders even about well-studied animals! #primates#mammals 🌿

Wounded orangutan seen using plant as medicine

It is the first time a creature in the wild has been seen using a medicinal plant to treat a wound.

Any friends heading to the Anthrozoology conference this June?

📚💙 Just finished this one and loved it. Her short story collection "salt slow" is also gorgeous.

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I can't stop rereading this. Two warring monkey gangs, hierarchy charts, arrests. What a time to be alive

Just finished this one. The selkie story is particularly good. 📚

Ooh... I really enjoyed her 'Drive your plow over the bones of the dead', even if my librarian did laugh at the cheery title 😄

capuchins of the bird world

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I love Whiskey Jacks because they’re like “what if we took a crow, but made it look like a cute little plush animal and gave it 1000x the drive to commit crimes

Ungrading advice please! I'm doing my first 'ungrading'/ learning contract this term and it's now time to assess and discuss final marks with students. For all but 3, my assessment matches their contracted mark, so no problem. Any tips for managing discussion to agree mark with the other 3?