From time to time, unusual animal behavior comes to the attention of the science community. Now comes this study: “Unusual Behaviour in Grey Woolly Monkeys (Lagothrix cana): Females Breastfeeding Adult Males,” Bárbara Cartagena-Matos, Hilton Ferreira Japyassú, Mariana Cravo-Mota, and Bruna Martins Bezerra, Mammalian Biology-Zeitschrift für Säugetierkunde, vol. 80, no. 1 (2015): 59-62. (Thanks to Ig Nobel Prize […]
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The Wug Test and Its Creator
Jean Berko Gleason, known to some as the Welcome Welcome Lecturer at the Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony, is known to even more — lots more — people as the creator of the Wug Test. The Secret Life of Scientists takes a look: