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Can a vaccine save Tasmanian devils from the contagious cancer that threatens to wipe them out? “Twenty Tasmanian devils were released into Narawntapu National Park in northern Tasmania on September 26, each inoculated with a new vaccine against a deadly disease that has decimated the endangered species,” Discovery News reported this week (September 28). “The newly wild devils, formerly kept at a free-range enclosure site for ‘insurance’ populations, will join existing devils already living in the park, and they will be monitored over time to gauge the vaccine’s effectiveness.”
Like people and great apes, monkeys can be tricked by optical illusions, Wired reported this week (September 28), covering research published this summer (August 31) in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition. “[The ...
