Three articles this month and all of them have something to do with biology. The first one is about how some chimpanzees in Africa have learned to recognize and disable traps laid by humans. The second is a statistical analysis of divorce rates sorted according to occupation. The last one is less of a formal article and more of a blog post. It’s about the unexpected benefits of being exposed to, well, human semen, of all things.

The chimpanzee article is from the BBC and talks about a groups of chimpanzees in the rainforests of Guinea who appear to have learned how to identify traps laid by human hunters and safely disable them without getting hurt in the process. They appear to be aware of how the different components of a snare trap come together and know which parts are safe to touch and which parts are dangerous. This has explained the observation that chimpanzees in that area rarely get injured by traps.

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