Animal buddies

Baboons may not chat on the phone, go to the movies or see each other in class. But they still have friends who brighten their days. Baboon buddies may use their long fingers and sometimes even their teeth to clean dirt and bugs out of each other’s fur. Such grooming sessions are “like getting a hug,” Liza Moscovice told Science News. Moscovice, a biologist at Binghamton University in New York, has studied ways that animals may be generous to one another. Read more