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@DeraJa – er, ever heard of racism and slavery? :p But I know you’re just joking… right?
Just attempting to validate evolution which is all garbage. Look who sponsors the video and that’s very evident. Sorry but you’re not going to sell me on the fact that we are one step away from this monkey. Schooling them to do tricks is like instruction dogs tricks. Are we to say that because they be with you our commands, they too are human. You and your nazi friends can sell the other stupid population on that one but not myself. God’s word is tried and right.
amazingly extraordinary, specially the pacman part hahaha the face is priceless.
@shorty962
They aren’t selectively breeding for intelligence, no. Kanzi isn’t more intelligent inherently than other bonobos, he has just had much more education and enculturation. They are making a sort of pan-homo society at Yerkes, though, with the more educated bonobos and humans living together.
Are they selective breeding the more intelligent bonobos in captivity?
One of the best TED discussion, hands down.
i just hope they dont show them any tv shows or films and by no means show them anyone using martial arts, weaponry or any kind of strategic combat stuff what so ever, showin em ms pacman was more than enough they better not show em g.t.a the results would be tragic and irreversable
so if the bonobos are the same as humans that means we were once just apes shown some ‘culture’ (aka technology and techniques) by some advanced species (aliens?) sounds like somethin sitchin says. and why teach ‘em what they arn’t instruction ‘emselves? you wanna see the planet of the apes happen for real? them apes are still more physically stronger and quicker than we are, and no matter how ‘peacefull’ they seem if they get half as smart as we are.. theyre gonna have some serious issues with us
WOW!!!!!!! speechless really. xxxxxxx
The most inspiring part of this entire presentation is that the bonobo has curiosity.
This is the most incredible thing I have ever seen.
I reckon these higher primates need to start being selectively bred for intelligence. That would be awesome! Then we can draft all the smart monkeys to work in all the factories!
YAY
@neithere (As an aside, for the purposes of studying human beings, both urban Americans and Maugli people are in their untreated habitats, in so far as the habitat hasn’t been constructed for the experiment. Either way, we are gleaning information from a sample that can be extended to a larger population.)
@neithere Also, breaking up the comeback made it hard to edit, there is a sentence that must say, “If one wants to know about how beings behave in an environment of urban America” with plural “beings” instead of “singular.”
@neithere Finally, I’d like to apologize for breaking up my comeback into so many comments, but YouTube has imposed a 500 character limit. *grr*
@neithere From this study, we now know that a Bonobo can play Pac-Man. But, we still have no insights as to what was different in the past two million years which led to Bonobo society evolving an apparently much less violent disposition than that of the common chimp. I, and from what I’ve read, most in the scientific community, would prefer funding go to studies that might illuminate the latter sort of question, rather than our Pac-Man related questions.
@neithere My original comment came after conception “Fantastic Ape Societies” McGrew, Marchant & Nishida. There are many open questions about the social behavior of the other fantastic apes, and there have been copious studies of chimps, bonobos, orangutans, and gorillas in some form of captivity, and these studies are limited in the data that can be gleaned from them about these open questions.
@neithere On the other hand, take a human being, place them in an environment constructed purely for the purposes of the experiment, and much of the information you buy will be specific people in the environment of the experiment. If the environment has been constructed specifically for the experiment, then you may wind up with a lot of information about the hundred or so people in the experiment, and very modest relevant to the other six billion in the world.
@neithere If one wants to know about how human being behave in an environment of urban America, then it is best to study people in places such as where I live, and one can buy information about people who live in the sort of environment I am accustomed.
@neithere It depends on what you want to know. If one wants to know about how human beings behave in an environment of the Maugli people, then it is best to study the Maugli people in such an environment, and one can buy information about people who live in such an environment.
@joshuaborn As I be with you, the experiment is about how much of human culture the non-human apes can absorb; how profound the communication can be. It’s not about watching, it’s about exchanging and interacting. Of course Kanzi and Panbanisha are rather “humanized”, but we are “humanized”, too! We are born into an unnatural habitat, an artificial world made out of culture. Must psychology study only Maugli humans? GAT is a fantastic scientific project.
arsonist monkey on the lose
that first ape looks like he can tear you to pieces in about ten seconds. his biceps were thicker than my head.
very fascinating! may not be the best environments for them, but they seem to have a sense of understanding.