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Animal rights
Animal rights, or animal liberation, is the movement to protect animals from being used or regarded as property by human beings. It is a radical social movement, insofar as it aims not merely to ... > more -
Cetacean intelligence
Cetacean intelligence denotes the cognitive capabilities of the cetacean order of mammals and especially the various species of dolphin. Cetaceans include whales, porpoises, and dolphins, and while ... > more -
Hominid intelligence
The nature and origins of hominid intelligence is a much-studied and much-debated topic, of natural interest to humans as the most successful and intelligent hominid species. There is no universally ... > more -
Great albatross
The great albatrosses are seabirds in the genus Diomedea in the albatross family. Great albatrosses are the largest of the albatrosses and are amongst the largest of flying ... > more -
Rhesus Macaque
The Rhesus Macaque (Macaca mulatta), often called the Rhesus Monkey, is one of the best known species of Old World monkeys. It is a typical macaque, common throughout Afghanistan to northern India ... > more -
Thomas Huxley
Thomas Henry Huxley F.R.S. (May 4, 1825 to June 29, 1895) was a British biologist, known as "Darwin's Bulldog" for his defence of Charles Darwin's theory of ... > more -
Human biology
Human biology is an academic field of biology which focuses on humans; it is closely related to medicine, primate biology, and a number of other fields. A human being is a multicellular eukaryote ... > more -
Howler monkey
The howler monkeys are among the largest of the New World monkeys. As their name suggests, vocal animal communication forms an important part of their social behavior. The large slow moving monkeys ... > more -
Cottontop Tamarin
The Cottontop Tamarin (Saguinus oedipus), also known as the Pinche Tamarin, is a small New World monkey weighing less than 1lb (0.5 kg). It is an endangered species found in tropical forest edges and ... > more
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