Do non-human animals have culture?

Chimpanzee with grass ear decoration

Unquestionably, non-human animals do, indeed, have culture. It is another example of an erosion of the concept of human exceptionalism. Humans like to think that they are special and different to animals but I am afraid that in many ways they are not. As The …

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Shortage of monkeys slows testing of coronavirus vaccine

Rhesus macaque monkey

In America there is a shortage of rhesus macaque monkeys for animal testing purposes. There was a shortage years before the coronavirus pandemic but now US research centres are saying that there are not enough to go around and there is huge pressure on developing …

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