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Kanzi the bonobo
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Kanzi the bonobo
January 13, 2012 at 2:09 am
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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.
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RE: Kanzi the bonobo
January 13, 2012 at 9:26 am
I love the fire-building video! That's genius. He 0wnz those sticks to make firewood!
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RE: Kanzi the bonobo
January 13, 2012 at 2:25 pm
(January 13, 2012 at 9:26 am)Braveheart Wrote: He 0wnz those sticks to make firewood!

Yea and considering that he could probably do the same thing with someone like Epimethean just makes me respect the people that work with him all that much more.
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RE: Kanzi the bonobo
January 13, 2012 at 2:32 pm
(January 13, 2012 at 2:25 pm)popeyespappy Wrote:
(January 13, 2012 at 9:26 am)Braveheart Wrote: He 0wnz those sticks to make firewood!

Yea and considering that he could probably do the same thing with someone like Epimethean just makes me respect the people that work with him all that much more.

Either way, I WANT A BONOBO!
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RE: Kanzi the bonobo
January 13, 2012 at 4:20 pm
(January 13, 2012 at 2:32 pm)Braveheart Wrote:
(January 13, 2012 at 2:25 pm)popeyespappy Wrote:
(January 13, 2012 at 9:26 am)Braveheart Wrote: He 0wnz those sticks to make firewood!

Yea and considering that he could probably do the same thing with someone like Epimethean just makes me respect the people that work with him all that much more.

Either way, I WANT A BONOBO!

No you don't. Their thought processes are totally alien to us due to the complexity of primates.

You didn't think humans broke off from chimps just because they were ugly, right?

From what we've observed of emerging speciation, it starts with cultural/behavioral differences.

It only follows that early pre-humans found chimpanzees "alien" enough to split off their own breeding pool. I'm not certain how bad it was then, but I'm fairly confident that a chimpanzee is as close to an unpredictable and alien thinking entity as we can get -- so similar, yet so different.
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RE: Kanzi the bonobo
January 13, 2012 at 4:54 pm
(January 13, 2012 at 2:32 pm)Braveheart Wrote:
(January 13, 2012 at 2:25 pm)popeyespappy Wrote:
(January 13, 2012 at 9:26 am)Braveheart Wrote: He 0wnz those sticks to make firewood!

Yea and considering that he could probably do the same thing with someone like Epimethean just makes me respect the people that work with him all that much more.

Either way, I WANT A BONOBO!

I don't know if one would be able to stand the cold here... They probably smell aswell. And they don't buy you whisky.
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