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Carli, a 46-year-old spider monkey, passed away after her health declined and keepers at Five Sisters Zoo in West Lothian discovered she had developed incurable cancer.

Of the seven-or-so universal emotions, two are aversive. Both fear and disgust are commonly evoked by insects. And while much of what we know about the workings of fear comes from the study of ...

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Most people hear “brown recluse” and think of hospital visits and horror stories. A Kansas family lived in a house with more than two thousand of these spiders for five and a half years, and nobody ...