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  2. 12 Monkeys - Wikipedia

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    12 Monkeys is a 1995 American science fiction thriller film directed by Terry Gilliam from a screenplay by David Peoples and Janet Peoples, inspired by Chris Marker's 1962 short film La Jetée. It stars Bruce Willis , Madeleine Stowe , Brad Pitt , and Christopher Plummer .

  3. List of mammalian gestation durations - Wikipedia

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    There is a positive relationship between mass at birth and length of gestation in eutherian mammals. [17] Larger mammals are more likely to produce a well-developed neonate than small mammals. Large mammals develop at an absolute slower rate compared to small mammals.

  4. Precociality and altriciality - Wikipedia

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    Precociality is thought to be ancestral in birds. Thus, altricial birds tend to be found in the most derived groups. There is some evidence for precociality in protobirds [11] and troodontids. [12] Enantiornithes at least were superprecocial in a way similar to that of megapodes, being able to fly soon after birth. [4]

  5. List of 12 Monkeys episodes - Wikipedia

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    12 Monkeys is an American television series on Syfy created by Terry Matalas and Travis Fickett. [1] It is a science fiction mystery drama based on the 1995 12 Monkeys film, written by David Peoples and Janet Peoples and directed by Terry Gilliam, which itself was based on Chris Marker's 1962 short film La Jetée. The series aired between ...

  6. Placental expulsion - Wikipedia

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    In most mammalian species, the mother bites through the cord and consumes the placenta, primarily for the benefit of prostaglandin on the uterus after birth. [citation needed] This is known as placentophagy. However, it has been observed in zoology that chimpanzees apply themselves to nurturing their offspring, and keep the fetus, cord, and ...

  7. Placentophagy - Wikipedia

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    These hinged on the idea that prior to parturition mothers ceased to eat and so, immediately after birth they consumed the placenta to satisfy an intense hunger. A further idea was that of specific hunger, according to which the maternal figure participated in placentophagy in order to replenish any resources depleted during pregnancy that were ...

  8. 12 Monkeys (TV series) - Wikipedia

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    12 Monkeys is an American television series on Syfy created by Terry Matalas and Travis Fickett. It is a science fiction mystery drama with a time traveling plot loosely adapting the 1995 film of the same name, which was written by David and Janet Peoples and directed by Terry Gilliam, itself being inspired by Chris Marker's 1962 featurette La Jetée; the series credits Marker and both Peoples ...

  9. Dian Fossey - Wikipedia

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    Dian Fossey (/ d aɪ ˈ æ n / dy-AN; January 16, 1932 – c. December 26, 1985) was an American primatologist and conservationist known for undertaking an extensive study of mountain gorilla groups from 1966 until her murder in 1985. [1]