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Like the other great apes, orangutans are remarkably intelligent. Although tool use among chimpanzees was documented by Jane Goodall in the 1960s, it was not until the mid-1990s that one population of orangutans was found to use feeding tools regularly. A 2003 paper in the journal Science described the evidence for distinct orangutan cultures.
According to recent research by the psychologist Robert Deaner and his colleagues, orangutans are the world's most intelligent animal other than humans, with higher learning and problem solving ability than chimpanzees, which were previously considered to have greater abilities. A study of orangutans by Carel van Schaik, a Dutch primatologist at Duke University, found them capable of tasks well beyond chimpanzees’ abilities — such as using leaves to make rain hats and leakproof roofs over their sleeping nests. He also found that, in some food-rich areas, the creatures had developed a complex culture in which adults would teach youngsters how to make tools and find food.
Many 'truths' are fed through to society through the media, movies and TV etc.
That humans are not the development from apes but the other way around?
Or that in the next few hundred years Apes will rule the Earth?
Is there more to this than you previously may have though?
Originally posted by Anonymous ATS
The planet of the apes will never come to pass, for one reason.
Within 100 years all of the great apes will be extinct in the wild, likely in much less time.
Human warfare, predation by humans, loss of habitat and SIV will render the great apes of africa just a memory.
... You want to know who will replace us, look at the meerkat.
They arent to different from where our ancestors were millions years ago.
And given a few millin years of evolution who knows?
Originally posted by Hanslune
reply to post by UFOpsychiczebra
Ah but it was a movie!
The apes don't have the brain and throat structure for speech - a few more million years of evolution might help them out but at the moment they are well adapted to their environments so have no real need for speech.
Originally posted by UFOpsychiczebra
Originally posted by Anonymous ATS
The planet of the apes will never come to pass, for one reason.
Within 100 years all of the great apes will be extinct in the wild, likely in much less time.
Human warfare, predation by humans, loss of habitat and SIV will render the great apes of africa just a memory.
... You want to know who will replace us, look at the meerkat.
They arent to different from where our ancestors were millions years ago.
And given a few millin years of evolution who knows?
And why do you think the humans have been trying to make the apes extinct? See my point. It is all a conspiracy to get rid of the apes before they can take over.
Originally posted by homo_borg
Right. There's a conspiracy because somehow some humans were able to "peek" into the future.
Originally posted by UFOpsychiczebra
And why do you think the humans have been trying to make the apes extinct? See my point. It is all a conspiracy to get rid of the apes before they can take over.
Much disclosure is done through movies.
They do have the ability to speak they choose not to, that secret is not well known.
Actually it is a widely accepted scientific fact that the first forms of 'time travel' will be information exchange
Originally posted by Hanslune
Howdy UFOpsychiczebra
Really, how do you know that? I must ask how you think that system works - what is being disclosed thru Hindi movies?
Hans: Hmmmm, so how do you know it?
"Actually it is a widely accepted scientific fact that the first forms of 'time travel' will be information exchange"
Hans: How did you determine its a widely accepted scientific fact? Please reference.
news.nationalgeographic.com...
The arcuate fasciculus appeared to differ significantly in humans compared to apes and monkeys. In all three species, the fascicle was hooked up to the frontal cortex, including the human Broca nucleus, but only in humans it prolonged deeply into speech-connected areas of the temporal cortex, like Wernicke's area.
The arcuate fasciculus of the chimpanzees made just a low connection with the temporal cortex area corresponding to human Wernicke's area, while in macaques such connections were almost totally inexistent. It seems that the evolution of the human complex speech has been associated with massive new wiring made by the arcuate fasciculus.
The apes' inability to speak has been stressed too much on their vocal chords, larynx and mouth structure. On the other hand, their intelligence has been compared to that of a 6-year-old child, thus they could speak. They can easily learn the sign languages, but this new approach explains why speech is out of their reach.
It shows "the uniqueness of the human brain, because it has been widely assumed that the basic brain structures are essentially similar between humans and apes," said Kuniyoshi Sakai, a language researcher at the University of Tokyo, in Japan.
And why do you think the humans have been trying to make the apes extinct? See my point. It is all a conspiracy to get rid of the apes before they can take over.
Originally posted by Hanslune
Howdy UFO
I think you are misinterpreting what the scientists mean by "information exchange", as I understand it they are talking about positioning of atoms and other aspects of Quantum mechanics - not what we would call "information".
Its been known that chimps and vocalize and send limited info about their environment ... They may have a simple repertoire of noises and body language, but the intelligence with which these signals are used and interpreted makes a big difference.
But talk like a human - is that what you are claiming?