A little girl and an olive baboon interact with each other through the glass at the Seneca Park Zoo, where the Primate Portal is housed. (RIT via SWNS)
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Jessica Cantlon (Carnegie Mellon University) and Caroline DeLong (Rochester Institute of Technology) watch as an olive baboon named Olivella interacts with the Primate Portal. Another baboon who frequently participates, named Kalamata, stands nearby. (RIT via SWNS)
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An olive baboon at the Seneca Park Zoo that took place in the Primate Portal experiments. (RIT via SWNS)
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