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The Gray Area with Sean Illing cover image

The cost of saving pandas

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

CHAPTER

Are You a Mongus Person or a Chimpanzee?

Most people maybe don't think of the banded mongus as a quote charismatic species, one that's super popular. Something like a chimpanzee or a panda are kind of your highly popular, very famous animals. And so I guess my question for you is just why are some species more charismatic or popular than others? Yes, what we're talking about is taxonomic bias. We tend to be attracted to or drawn to animals that we can see ourselves in or are more similar to us.

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