The Longest Game of Chess

Howler monkeys are known for their distinct fur colors, loud, raspy roars and being pretty lacadaisical. Sometimes they spend some of that energy playing with each other, doing classic cartoon monkey things like hanging from their tails or making funny faces. Adult howler monkeys would play with other adults most often when they were going on a special foraging trip for fruit. They don't use more well studied kinds of primate social bonding, like grooming each other till et getlose and share. So instead these researchers supposed that play, like making silly faces at each other, helps diffuse tension when one monkey finds a really good fruit. And i guess the lesson is that when

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