14
Mar
Chimpanzee Problem Solving
Posted by admin, under Problem SolvingA brief, interesting clip from National Geographic’s “Ape Genius” documentary, demonstrating problem solving skills in chimpanzees, by using water as a flotation aid to retrieve a treat from a narrow tube. This experiment was conducted at the Max Planck Institute in Leipzig, Germany.
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This monkey is clearly smarter than me.
I wonder what experience they had with the fact that peanuts float.
Yay, I’m smarter than a monkey, I thought of using water the very moment I saw it attached to the fence, lol, though I’d have used a bowl to pour in.
WOW.. just WOW.
WTF Amazing
Sorry to say, but I would fail big time at this task.
@tehinfidel hahaha….i like how you changed it right away =-D
Whoops! Posted this over a year ago, and never realized the spoiler in the title until you mentioned it just now.
yeah i didnt even think of that at 1st until i read the title of the vid again
Shit..I didn’t even think of that.
Amazing! Magnificent animal indeed!
No planterz, you are confusing mythology with evolutionary biology. LRN2SCIENCE
incredible! appears to have been a taught behavior again, if the only experience they had was of nuts floating on water, i would certainly believe this was applied intellectual abstraction of concepts.
awesome!!!!!
It’s amazing that God gave us these incredibly intelligent animals.
Leave em in cages though, they have been known to bite off fingers and rip faces off.
Yes, through Science. Animal experiments are not science as we are experimenting on a completely different species causing misleading conclusions, as per the asbestos example (among many others). What happens is experiments end up being done on human beings – we do not know how (eg. drugs) will affect us until we try them ourselves! Thats the irony of testing. Animals dont get cancer from asbestos, we do. Animals get sick from things that cure us. Some animals are not harmed by arsenic, etc.
Couldn’t tell, but I can imagine better methods can be found. Understanding is a part of our nature, just like it’s normal for a lion to kill. I’d dare to say we have to understand things, because it’s our “evolutionnary path”. Through science, we’ll maybe spread the seeds of life on other planets tomorrow… and considering this possibility, some sacrifices are “understandable”. Yet, we do have the possibility to find better ways, so we should find them as we can feel their pain…
I know I would’ve tried brute force, tryna wrench the pole off the bars before thinking of a solution using water… That chimp makes me feel so stupid.
Well, if you want to experiment on them, yes of course they have to be confined.
However, these days there are many alternatives, I have seen overwhelming evidence that these kinds of experiments can easily be replaced with more effective methods. I’ve researched it a great deal & was surprised to find this out. Eg. asbestos was used for years b/c it was not toxic to animals. The results don’t transfer to us. My personal belief now is that animal experiments are unnecessary & misleading.
lol at all the people being so amazed at this, i guess they never realized you could do this with water
give the average person freaking 10 HOURS and they wouldnt solve this
Problem is you have to confine them. They are dangerous as they’re powerfull and wild. It’s the only way to make such experiments.
looooooool
Which is exactly why these creatures should never be locked up and confined like this. They suffer in such confinement as we do too.
hizz – you’re one of the people who wouldn’t beable to figure it out and thus have to make an excuse to pretend you’re smarter than a chimpanzee – you’re not.
if you gave up you would have been smarter than the chimp. I mean why would anyone spend ten minutes of their life to eat one peanut.
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