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Learning how primates update their beliefs could reshape ideas about how children learn and even how artificial intelligence systems are designed.

Students must do a training stint in each of four main categories — carnivore, herbivore, bird and primate — so they may wind up working with animals they find unpleasant.

The Los Angeles Zoo has announced the birth of a baby boy Bornean orangutan, the first such primate baby at the zoo in almost 15 years.

Estimates for the primates left range from about 2,500 to 4,000.

“Instinctively, as a female primate,” Ms. Galdikas writes, she provided the maternal care for the orangutans she came to see as “members of my forest family.”