Baiting Ebola

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"Kibara was crazy, running from one point to another, cracking open [the candies], and eating them up," recalls Martina Neumann, a behavioral biologist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig. Because they were studying only a limited number of captive animals, though, Adrian Vos, a wildlife biologist with IDT Biologika who was involved with the trials, is quick to note that the trials don't qualify as a scientific food-preference study, and none of the work has been published in any peer-reviewed journals.

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Baiting Ebola

At the Leipzig zoo's Wolfgang Köhler Primate Research Center last summer, a 3-year-old female gorilla named Kibara was going berserk. She had just been given a new type of food, deep-red colored candies with a ...

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