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Scotland, Nov 22: The authorities of an Edinburgh Zoo indicated that they are planning to invest in Glasgow rather than in the Capital city. As the next Commonwealth Games is to be held in Glasgow the Zoo owners are planning for a shift of focus to the Glasgow’s East End. On responding to the city councils plan to resist the Zoo’s decision to sell off their land on Corstorphine Hill for the housing authorities they said that they will consider the best way to invest their limited capital.

The chief executive of the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland, David Windmill stressed that there were no plans to shift the zoo; the Glasgow City Council is making an attempt to attract them towards west. He expressed his disappointment over the councils attitude to block the extension plan budgeted at £72 million on its present site.

“The Royal Zoological Society has no plans to shift the Zoo to Glasgow. We are examining the visitor attraction on the west coast and are currently carrying on a viability study with South Lanarkshire Council,” said Mr Windmill

He further added that: “As being a national organisation we have the desire to have our presence in or around the Scotland’s largest city. We have to be careful in our investment in order to achieve out charitable and commercial objectives. The encouragement we get from the authorities is very important and specially when limited investment where we have to look for the best results.”

“The zoo has its presence in Edinburgh for several years and has become a part of the city. The authorities should lend their support and should act together,” said the Labour’s culture and recreation spokesman, Paul Godzick.

Ewan Aitken, the Labour leader of Edinburgh is planning to bring a motion in the council meeting as an attempt to express the commitment to retain the Zoo in Edinburgh. The Glasgow Zoo in Calder Park was closed in the year 2004, but the Glasgow Zoological society and west of Scotland took charge of the Zoo and it still exists.

November, 22

They may be too young, and even can’t talk but they have grown a unique skill to observe what’s going on around them. We are talking about infants; the research has shown that these babies can judge people on the basis of nice, naughty, or neutral ranks. This eye-raising report was unveiled after a study conducted on the infant behaviour showed such signs. These young infants showed positive signs towards those who helped others.

The study was conducted at Yale University involving babies of six months, ten months year old babies. At first the babies were shown a climber, basically a wooden toy, glued on eyes which rested at the bottom of a hill before repeatedly trying and falling to climb. Further the climber was helped by a triangular thing helping from behind. It was noticed that babies preferred the triangular object which acted as a helper.

This experiment showed how babies act positively towards the helping factor. It is seen that babies have some social traits when they are born. While this amazing research was guided by psychologist Prof. Karen Wynn, they said “This supports the view that our ability to evaluate people is a biological adaptation - universal and unlearned,” she said. The presence of social evaluation so early in infancy suggests that assessing individuals by the nature of their interactions with others is central to processing the social world, both evolutionarily and developmentally.”

But many scientists have shown mixed views over this study, as few of them suggest that it’s too early to draw any conclusion from this research. Some scientist have even doubted on whether babies possess such sophisticated moral capabilities. But if this study and its outcomes can be seen as the ability of these infants to taken such crucial decision then it’s a healthy sign for our future generations.