Nest-building in primates Nest-building in primates Nest-building in primates refers to the behaviour of building nests by extant strepsirrhines (lemurs and lorisoids) and hominid apes (gorillas, chimpanzees, orangutans, and humans). Strepsirrhines build nests for both sleeping and also for raising families. Hominid apes build nests for sleeping at night, and in some species, for sleeping during the day. Nest-building by hominid apes is learned by infants watching the mother and others in the group, and is considered tool use rather than animal architecture. Old World monkeys and New World monkeys do not nest. It has been speculated that a major evolutionary advance in
The Animal-Cracker Plot is a tropical world occupying the same star system as Krishna, de Camp's primary setting for the "Viagens Interplanetarias" series. As dated in "The Continent Makers and Other Tales of the Viagens" and the 1959 version of de Camp's essay "The Krishna Stories", the action of "The Animal-Cracker Plot" takes place in the year 2120 CE. One of Koshay's later operations is the subject of the story "Git Along!" set on the planet Osiris. The Animal-Cracker Plot "The Animal-Cracker Plot" is a science fiction short story by American writer L. Sprague de Camp, a story in his "Viagens Interplanetarias" series.