Blind orangutans give birth to twins in Indonesia

Gober, an elderly female Sumatran orangutan who is blind in both eyes due to cataracts, lies down with her twin babies at a rehabilitation center in Sibolangit, North Sumatra, Indonesia, Thursday, Jan. 27, 2011. (AP Photo/Binsar Bakkara)

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - A blind orangutan at a rescue center in western Indonesia has given birth to a healthy pair of twins ( via wthitv )
Blind orangutans give birth to twins in Indonesia

Biologists Discover That Some Ants Eventually Retire

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According to a new study, researchers found most older Central American leaf-cutting ants take on a new, less intensive role at a certain point in life -- though their later contribution to the whole is not without its own importance. It seems that cutting leafs is work better suited to the young -- the ants are born with sharp mandibles perfect for slicing through plants, but eventually, they begin to lose their edge, literally.
(via Stephen Messenger, Porto Alegre, Brazil)

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Mark Twain remains censored, and uncensored

author Mark Twain, born Samuel Clemen, is shown. (AP Photo, file)

But Twain also believed in getting out the truth. "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" angered respectable people when it came out and still stirs a fuss 126 years later. Twain's most famous novel has been paired with "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer in a volume to be published next month by NewSouth Books that replaces the "N-word" — an offensive but often-used expression in the 1880s — with "slave." (via HILLEL ITALIE, AP National Writer)

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