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Up to 90 percent of their home range burns annually—the result of human hunting or clearing for gold mining—and Fongoli chimpanzees have learned to predict the movement of such fires and to avoid them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe study of Fongoli chimps is also unique. While most primate research occurs in isolated reserves, Fongoli chimpanzees live alongside humans, and as primatologist and anthropologist Jill Pruetz reports, this shared habitat creates both challenges and opportunities. The issues faced by Fongoli chimpanzees—particularly food scarcity and environmental degradation—are also issues faced by their human neighbours. 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It’s an unalterable fact that dogs—often filthy, bellicose, and sometimes off-putting—run away, spread rabies, defecate, and breed wherever they like, so as dogs became more and more common in nineteenth-century middle-class life, cities had to respond to people's fear of them and revulsion at their least desirable traits.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe gradual integration of dogs into city life centred on disgust at dirt, fear of crime and vagrancy, and the promotion of humanitarian sentiments. 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