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An adult female baboon from the Amboseli basin in Kenya displays her exaggerated estrous swelling--a sign that her time of ovulation is near.

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Investigating The Purpose Of Female Beauty In Animals

1:00pm February 17, 2017

by Shawn Fitzmaurice

Researchers from Duke university are learning that female beauty in the animal world may be less about mating, and more about survival.

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