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This weird-looking primate’s extra-long fingers give it an extra-gross talent

 

     Humans aren’t the only animals to pick their nose and eat the contents, a new study has shown.

    Researchers have for the first time documented the behavior in a primate known as the aye-aye, a most unusual-looking species of lemur. The Journal of Zoology published the findings on Wednesday.

    Anne-Claire Fabre, a curator at the Natural History Museum of Bern, in Switzerland, and associate professor at the University of Bern, observed an aye-aye picking its nose while she was filming the animals at the Duke Lemur Center, a sanctuary and research facility in Durham, North Carolina.

    Using a low-light camera, Fabre captured the female aye-aye, known as Kali, indulging in this questionable pastime.

    “It was impossible not to notice this ayeaye picking its nose,” Fabre, the study’s lead author, said in a statement.

    “This was not just a one-off behaviour but something that it was fully engaged in, inserting its extremely long finger a surprisingly long way down its nose and then sampling whatever it dug up by licking its finger clean!”

    Including aye-ayes and humans, 12 species of primate have been observed snacking on snot.

    Unlike humans’ relatively short digits, the aye-aye’s long and skinny middle finger is perfectly shaped for deep digging. A reconstruction of the animal’s nasal passage based on a CT scan suggests its curved finger can reach all the way back into its throat to root around for mucus.

Adapted from: https://edition.cnn.com/2022/10/26/world/aye-ayenose-picking-intl-scli-scn/index.html. Access: 21 Dec. 2022.

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World’s heaviest flying bird uses plants to self-medicate, scientists say

 

    Taking drugs if you’re feeling under the weather is old news for humans, but new research shows that the world’s heaviest bird capable of flight could be the latest animal to use plants as a form of medication.

    Researchers from Madrid in Spain studied data on 619 droppings belonging to great bustards and discovered that the two species of plants that were eaten more than other foods in their diet had “antiparasitic effects.”

    “Here we show that great bustards prefer to eat plants with chemical compounds with antiparasitic effects,” Luis M. Bautista-Sopelana, a scientist at Madrid’s National Museum of Natural Sciences and lead author, said in a news release Wednesday.

    Found in parts of Europe, Africa and Asia, great bustards are listed as vulnerable on the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s Red List of Threatened Species, with around 70% of the world’s population living in the Iberian peninsula, according to the release.

Adapted from: https://edition.cnn.com/2022/11/23/world/bird-selfmedicates-scn-scli-intl/index.html. Access: 21 Dec. 2022.

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World’s heaviest flying bird uses plants to self-medicate, scientists say

 

    Taking drugs if you’re feeling under the weather is old news for humans, but new research shows that the world’s heaviest bird capable of flight could be the latest animal to use plants as a form of medication.

    Researchers from Madrid in Spain studied data on 619 droppings belonging to great bustards and discovered that the two species of plants that were eaten more than other foods in their diet had “antiparasitic effects.”

    “Here we show that great bustards prefer to eat plants with chemical compounds with antiparasitic effects,” Luis M. Bautista-Sopelana, a scientist at Madrid’s National Museum of Natural Sciences and lead author, said in a news release Wednesday.

    Found in parts of Europe, Africa and Asia, great bustards are listed as vulnerable on the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s Red List of Threatened Species, with around 70% of the world’s population living in the Iberian peninsula, according to the release.

Adapted from: https://edition.cnn.com/2022/11/23/world/bird-selfmedicates-scn-scli-intl/index.html. Access: 21 Dec. 2022.

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Ancient giant sea turtle with never-beforeseen features found in Europe, scientists say

 

    Long ago, gigantic marine turtles swam the Earth’s seas. Until recently, these prehistoric giants, reaching lengths of over 3 meters (10 feet) from head to tail, had been thought to be found only in waters surrounding North America.

    Now, scientists have discovered a previously unknown species — the largest sea turtle found in present-day Europe ever to be identified.

Adapted from: https://edition.cnn.com/2022/11/29/world/speciesdiscovery-prehistoric-sea-turtle-scn/index.html. Access: 20 Dec. 2022.

 

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Only 14% of diagnosed cancers in the US are detected by screening, report says

 

    A small proportion – 14.1% – of all diagnosed cancers in the United States are detected by screening with a recommended screening test, according to a new report.

    The remaining diagnosed cancers tend to be found when someone has symptoms or seeks imaging or medical care for other reasons, suggests the report, posted online Wednesday by researchers at the nonprofit research organization NORC at the University of Chicago.

    “I was shocked that only 14% of cancers were detected by screening. I think, for many people, we talk so much about cancer screening that we imagine that that’s how all cancers are diagnosed. We talk about mammograms and colonoscopies all the time,” said Caroline Pearson, an author of the report and senior vice president at the organization.

Adapted from: https://edition.cnn.com/2022/12/14/health/cancers-detected-byscreening-report. Access: 20 Dec. 2022.

 

The verb tense underlined in the passage "We talk about mammograms and colonoscopies all the time" is

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