Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The Arizona cotton-grass. See
cotton-grass , 2.
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Examples
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He began by listening to recordings Snowdon had made of the calls of cotton-top tamarins, and was able to discern as he did so which calls were from animals that were upset, and which were from animals that were more relaxed.
Play me that monkey music ewillett 2009
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In summary, their “results suggest that, in the absence of training, cotton-top tamarins learn a rule that is formally similar to affixation patterns [...] in natural language.”
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In summary, their “results suggest that, in the absence of training, cotton-top tamarins learn a rule that is formally similar to affixation patterns [...] in natural language.”
“Quotes” and monkey grammar at the BBC « Motivated Grammar 2009
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When they played the music back to seven pairs of adult cotton-top tamarins at the University of Wisconsin, the monkeys became more anxious and jittery while listening to the fearful monkey music, but then calmed down upon hearing the friendlier music.
Play me that monkey music ewillett 2009
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SIEGEL: You wrote - in your story, you mentioned a complaint from some years ago from 1995, about another experiment with cotton-top tamarin monkeys.
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But being able to ride a bicycle to and from work without falling over or getting run down by a cotton-top in her Caddy is not the same as being Lance Armstrong.
Mastery Steve Perry 2010
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Parenting for Primates ~ written by a primatologist turned clinical psychologist who spent the first part of her career hand-rearing cotton-top tamarins — monkeys that co-parent their babies, usually twins.
Archive 2009-08-01 Field Notes 2009
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A group of primate researchers who study two very unique species — common marmosets and cotton-top tamarins — noticed that males mated to pregnant females gained between 2-20% extra weight during her pregnancy.
Why Expectant Dads Gain Weight Too Field Notes 2009
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A group of primate researchers who study two very unique species — common marmosets and cotton-top tamarins — noticed that males mated to pregnant females gained between 2-20% extra weight during her pregnancy.
Archive 2009-03-01 Field Notes 2009
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In the journal Biology Letters, researchers said that cotton-top tamarins like the one pictured are able to spot if the order of syllables in a word is “wrong”.
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