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Letter: For the record

Published 10 December 2014

• A touch of monkey business affected our article on technology for animals: orang-utans become sexually active at 8 years, and it is human visitors – not other apes – that juveniles enjoy poking with sticks (29 November, p 44).

Issue no. 2999 published 13 December 2014

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