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Michael Mosley has a close encounter with an orangutan
Michael Mosley has a close, and messy, encounter with an orangutan as he finds out about some of Charles Darwin鈥檚 lesser known work. Famous for the theory of evolution, Darwin also spent over 30 years of his life looking at the emotional expressions of both humans and animals. His research included visiting an orangutan in a zoo but, unlike Michael, it possibly didn鈥檛 include being spat at.
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