Zone is a best-selling 1994 non-fiction bio-thriller by Richard Preston about the origins and incidents involving viral hemorrhagic fevers‚ particularly Ebola viruses and Marburg viruses. This book is based upon an outbreak of the Ebola virus in a monkey house located in the Washington‚ D.C. suburb of Reston‚ Virginia. The author weaves together the tales of several previous outbreaks in Africa to describe clearly the potential damage such an outbreak could cause. The first appearance of an Ebola-like
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through studies of social behavior of monkeys. Theory His theory hinged on the universal need for contact. Harlow’s famous wire/cloth "mother" monkey studies demonstrated that the need for affection created a stronger bond between mother and infant than did physical needs (food). Experiment He separated baby monkeys from their mothers and used a wire mother- covered in soft cloth- with a nipple with milk- as a mother substitute for the baby. One day a baby monkey took a poop on the fake mother and
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Parma‚ Italy‚ a lab monkey awaited its researchers’ return from lunch. The researchers had implanted wires next to its motor cortex‚ in a frontal lobe brain region that enabled the monkey to plan and enact movements. The monitoring device would alert the researchers to activity in that region of the monkey’s brain. When the monkey moved a peanut into its mouth‚ for example‚ the device would buzz. That day‚ as one of the researchers entered the lab‚ ice cream cone in hand‚ the monkey stared at him. As
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of a monkey!” and only a few days later his wife gave birth to a monkey. The father was so much mortified that he wanted to kill his son; but finally his better reason prevailed‚ and he spared the child. He said to himself‚ “It is my fault‚ I know; but I uttered that invocation without thinking.” So‚ instead of putting the monkey to death‚ the couple just hid it from visitors; and whenever any one asked for the child‚ they merely answered‚ “Oh‚ he died long ago.” The time came when the monkey grew
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GOAL Harry Harlow‚ an American Psychologist‚ was developing the Wisconsin General Testing Apparatus to study aspects of mental processes of primates. As he developed his tests‚ he realized the monkeys he was working with were “learning new strategies around his initial tests” (article 2). Harlow was very confused as to why this was occurring‚ so he decided to study developing primates away from their biological mothers in a nursing setting and examine the premature behaviors and relationships
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hunt for a baby one‚ they like to play in the rotten logs on the ground said Baloo. Then kite the colorful bird comes flying in yelling “Baloo‚ Baloo” I have been told to drop off a message from Mowgli he has told me to tell you that the Bandar log monkeys have taken him to the cold lairs and they might stay there for the week or they might stay there for an hour‚ I do not know. I have asked the bats to watch through out the night while I sleep. Many thanks said Baloo‚ I will save you the head of my
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intelligent animals to train (Job Monkey). Professional dolphin trainers does more work with dolphins (Job Monkey). They educate humans by answering questions‚ and can teach classes to help the kids who want to learn more about marine life (Job Monkey). Dolphin trainers not only train the dolphins they care for their health and wellbeing (Job Monkey). This includes monitoring the dolphins diet‚ health‚ and study the animals behavior by doing activities with them (Job Monkey). Dolphins are very similar
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(hypothesis) Harry Harlow wanted to see if the behavior of baby monkeys that were separated from their mothers at birth. He wanted to see if the separation would affect their behavior later in life. Experimentation Harlow took 8 baby monkeys away from their mothers‚ within hours of their birth. He put each of the baby monkeys in separate cages. In each cage he had placed – a cloth “mother” and a wire “mother”‚4 of the wire monkey mothers were set up to feed and the cloth “mother” was not. In
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Misconceptions: Did humans evolve from monkeys? No‚ humans did not evolve from monkeys‚ but did we evolve from apes then? Well turns out even though we are more closely related to apes than monkeys‚ we still didn’t evolve from them. So who or what did humans evolve from? Scientists believe that humans share a common ancestor with modern African apes (gorillas‚ chimpanzees). This ancestor lived five to eight million years ago‚ but hold on if this was true wouldn’t this mean
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at a research lab for special diseases. Marburg first appeared in an old city‚ in central Germany. Its first appearance was from a factory who shipped green monkeys to a different places that make vaccines from the kidney cells. The source of the virus was then traced to Uganda. The boss of the vaccine company was sending all the sick monkeys to an island near lake Victoria‚ instead of following the rules and putting them down. The island became a place where disease could jump and mutate
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