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Tue 09 Sep 2009When it comes to smiling the chimps have the edge
THE INFANT laughs and smiles, delighted to play the peek-a-boo game with its surrogate parent. The scene seems all so familiar but for the fact that the infant being filmed is a weeks-old chimpanzee.
Infant chimps smile and cry, pout and fuss much the same as a human baby.
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