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The Fame That Got Away

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What's Driving Us to Be a Monkey Celebrity?

In monkeys, just like people, there's an enormous drive to attain status. There'are kind of different paths to status in monkeys, just as there are in people. In males, being high status confers some benefits, comes with some costs. It seems to be stressful. To maintain your status seems it's actually really hard. And you're always looking over your shoulder, and you know somebody's going to come along and knock you off, topple you. Soa, so these monkeys, is classically shown, like 20 years ago, often have advanced heart disease,. And they're not sitting around king and eating ounno ahih fat, high sugar diet. They're not

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