RE: Kanzi the bonobo
January 13, 2012 at 9:19 am
(This post was last modified: January 13, 2012 at 9:24 am by The Grand Nudger.)
There are some cognitive tasks that chimps are actually better at than human beings (visual and short term memory being standouts...it isn't even close on those two counts..they're machines and we're morons). Humbling stuff really.
A fun thing to do, to give yourself a giggle. Make some chimp noises. The trick is to express tone and pitch on the inhale as well as the exhale. Maybe you're calling someone an asshole in bad chimp (and it tickles babies pink....mine seem to have a natural talent for it..lol). It's long been known that chimp "calls" are communication, and a handful of them have been shown to be nearly uniform among all wild populations, such as the danger call. There's some crackpot scientist (I'll try to google him for the lulz) that's made his career scaring the shit out of chimps by imitating danger calls himself.
A fun thing to do, to give yourself a giggle. Make some chimp noises. The trick is to express tone and pitch on the inhale as well as the exhale. Maybe you're calling someone an asshole in bad chimp (and it tickles babies pink....mine seem to have a natural talent for it..lol). It's long been known that chimp "calls" are communication, and a handful of them have been shown to be nearly uniform among all wild populations, such as the danger call. There's some crackpot scientist (I'll try to google him for the lulz) that's made his career scaring the shit out of chimps by imitating danger calls himself.
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