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Visitors to the wild animal park in Shenzhen, China, last spring saw a smartly dressed rhesus monkey rhesus monkey: see macaque. pick lice lice (lis) plural of louse.

lice (ls)
n.
Plural of louse.
 from the feathers feathers, outgrowths of the skin, constituting the plumage of birds. Feathers grow only along certain definite tracts (pterylae), which vary in different groups of birds. Feathers develop from tiny projections of tissue (papillae) embedded in follicles and nourished by blood vessels in the dermis. When the feather is full grown, the blood supply is discontinued and the central shaft becomes hollow. of a parrot. Turns out, the 10 kilogram (22 pound) primate is an expert groomer. It has opposable thumbs that can be placed opposite of the fingers, giving the monkey a good grasp of the tiny parasites nestling in the bird's feathers. In the wild, female rhesus monkeys groom other females, their infants. and possible mates Besides keeping the family clean, grooming Combining, consolidating and segregating network traffic using devices such as digital cross-connects, add/drop multiplexers and SONET switches. Grooming is a telephone term that typically refers to managing high-capacity lines between central offices, carriers, ISPs and very large corporations rather than subscriber lines (local loops). See digital cross-connect and add/drop multiplexer. strengthens the monkey's social bonds. So this monkey and the parrot must be pals.
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Title Annotation:animal grooming
Publication:Science World
Article Type:Brief Article
Geographic Code:9CHIN
Date:Oct 3, 2005
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