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Originally posted by DragonsDemesne
They built this ten million dollar house for them and are going to watch what they do. They have vending machines and kitchens. They have flushing toilets. They have these weird keyboards with a few hundred symbols that they can use to communicate to the human researchers with. They have a video camera pointing to their front door, and a button to open the front door, so that they can choose who to let into their house.
I'm wholly in favor of this sort of research into primate intelligence. The only negative thing I see is the price tag; ten million bucks is a lot.
Originally posted by DragonsDemesne
These researchers are working with bonobos, a species of monkey that has DNA that is (if I remember the number correctly) 98.4% similar to humans.
5. How do apes differ from monkeys?
"Apes differ from monkeys in several ways. Apes have no tail and generally have a larger body weight than most other primates. They have a more upright body posture and a broad chest.... Apes rely more on vision than on smell and have a short broad nose rather than a snout, as Old World monkeys do. Apes have a larger brain relative to the body size than other primates do...."
Rowe, Noel. The Pictorial Guide to the Primates. New York : Pogonias Press, 1996. P. 207.
www.primates.com...
APES are not MONKEYS
Many people do not know the difference between a monkey and an ape. Apes evolved from Old World Monkeys about 25 million years ago. Apes are "super monkeys" in the same sense that humans are "super apes."
Compared to monkeys, apes are tailless, have very versatile shoulder joints, and have brains about twice as large.
There used to be many species of apes, but most are now extinct. The six remaining ape species: the "lesser apes" are the gibbon and siamang. The "great apes" are the orangutan, gorilla, chimpanzee, and bonobo. All live quite close to the equator, in either Africa or southeast Asia and its offshore islands.
ID hints: Gibbons and siamangs are acrobats. Orangutans have red hair. Gorillas have strong jaws. You can tell bonobos from black-faced chimps because their hair parts down the middle. And, of course, monkeys have tails.
williamcalvin.com...
Originally posted by GradyPhilpott
Actually Nydan, if you read the associated material, it can't go either way. Regardless of what species apes descended from, Bonobos are not a species of monkey. Not that it matters to the essential point of the original post, but nonetheless, monkeys and apes are of two different Families of the Order Primate
Originally posted by GradyPhilpott
Originally posted by DragonsDemesne
These researchers are working with bonobos, a species of monkey that has DNA that is (if I remember the number correctly) 98.4% similar to humans.
Bonobos are not a species of monkey.