Bonobos: Language Recognition, Play

[schulze3]

I like gibons

[sh0c0m0c0c0c0]

Where have I seen this before? Oh yeah, it's the rise of the planet of the apes!!!! Get ready people, the apes are going to take over real soon by the looks of this!!! :P

[makeiteasyable]

lol its not easy to be ape.

[FrankJohnLi]

We have always known that certain animals can exhibit astounding intelligence, but this is one of the few instances that humans can interact and experiences this personally. Maybe more of these experiences will become the catalyst of defining person hood and the ever fading red line between humans and animals. Maybe we can even realize that we apart of life, and that we must preserve theses gems of Earth.

[alifaraz2193]

Apes will rise!!

[whitewolfwithblackSP]

I'm proud to be a primate :D I'm also very proud to be related to kanzi! ^,^

[Vessoland]

This is so adorable!

[DavidFiveThirteen]

this put a smile on my face like woah

[AlasseBuchanan]

"Now I'm not saying they're members of the human race. But couldn't they be apes and people? Because after all, isn't that what we are?"

Ummm. . .I think he just said apes are members of the human race.

[xxxAirmidxxx]

that is kind of cool. 

[HelloWerldLawl]

We are more closely related genetically to fruit than we are to fish, how does that factor into your faith into the evolutionary tree of life? don't be shy just blurt out your reasoning. Banana 60%, fish 40%

[lengoify]

poor kanzi - hes in a fucking cage for us to conduct experiments

[GeatMaster]

but can he tell the difference between "snake bites dog" and "dog bites snake"?

[TunaOfDoubt]

Bonobos are such incredible creatures!

[Varkasno]

OMG Chimp Chasing Shaun From Assassins Creed!

[FrazzleAndTheWolf]

That's actually incredible.

[RazaTheHacker]

They could, if given enough time and enough isolation from human interference with moderate genetic modification, become their own civilization.

[1225grl]

humans are animals,very very arrogant animals.

[bijoukaiba]

@RusconiDom Just search Youtube for "gorilla save boy". The first video on the search results is the story I was talking about.

[amaclellan3]

higher class operant conditioning? debate over training an animal, and an animal learning the skills of using languague properly to generate unique communication while following rules of language. This video is amazing, but whats even more amazing is humans ability, and the complexity of our ways of communication, thats whats sets us apart, there is a stilll a huge degree of seperation when it comes to humans and other animals, but we still need to respect the rest of earths creatures.

[HitfulVids]

@amaclellan3 Whales can communicate across the ocean without radios or wires, they use grammar, and the "vocabulary" of some species is richer than ours. What would animals discuss when they've evolved to communicate with everyone within hundreds of miles, as we've only begun to do in the last few years? We just might be too primitive to understand a whale conversation.

[menodimi1]

So apes can speak eh?

 In other related news "Palestinians" have learned to peel banannas with their feet!

[johniwuji]

try to live with lion and u will not wake up to see ur stomach

[johniwuji]

this is nonesence animal are made to live in the wild not in a city with human can u teach lion too?

[bamf27]

This video actually made me tear up with joy :)

[menodimi1]

@bamf27 Boohoo....ok give me a bananna

[robinstl70]

If you put him in the cage with that thing it would rip his fucking face off. We need to leave wild animals alone and stop letting naive people co-opt primates as being a subset of human beings under the guise of intellectualism.

[bijoukaiba]

@robinstl70 Doubt it. Bonobos are actually fairly passive creatures. They are much less aggressive than chimpanzees, which already get along with humans very well. In fact, most animals do not attack unless, you know, you PROVOKE them.

Several years ago, a small boy fell into a gorilla exhibit at the Brookfield Zoo and was knocked out. A gorilla did not "rip his face off", she actually carried the boy to where the zookeepers entered their enclosure.

[menodimi1]

@robinstl70 Really? You should meet my inlaws!

[SexyTheDyke]

I'm sorry but humans have to be the dumbest creatures on earth because they don't realize that they ARE animals. It's a simple realization that explains everything, no experiments needed.

[waori]

@SexyTheDyke Who have you talked to who doesn't realise that they're an animal? The fact that we're animals does nothing towards solving the question of whether or not there is some fundamental divide in the cognitive abilities of humans and other non-human animals. Which I think is what they're trying to investigate with individuals like Kanzi.

[SexyTheDyke]

@waori The point is that there is no divide.

[waori]

@SexyTheDyke There's no way you can know that unless you're privy to some information which many leading researchers in the field are not. I'm not saying there definitely is a divide but that at the moment, the only reasonable conclusion based on all available evidence is; maybe.

[SexyTheDyke]

@waori Ok well you have your opinion and I have mine

[FIGHTFANNERD3]

@SexyTheDyke idiot we know that

[elbethere]

LOL at 3:34, you can see Kanzi almost nod his head.

[atkinson661]

@elbethere wtf r u talking out the video is only 3:11 ??

[elbethere]

@atkinson661 Sorry, I meant 0:34

[Fas6pa]

This is so cool. I can't bleieve all those dumb religious people claim that non-human animals were put on this Earth for them to enjoy and we treat them like garbage. FUCK RELIGION

[Proofer25]

@Fas6pa -Youve been mislead and placed every religioius person in the same category. Your fuck you attitude is the reason why man has destroyed this beautiful planet. (no dis respect). But every thing is here for man and for us to enjoy not to murder and lust it in sport and pleasure, but for survival and to better future man. You read only the covers of books. There is a reason why we are the dominant species here. Because it was made for you. Cherish it dont abuse it...

[ovniforos]

That's a fat and smart bonobo !

[jamoster]

I'm not sure this reporter knows what he's doing. Bonobos release anxieties within the troop by having sex incessantly-- the males bond by scrotal rubbing. With this in mind, notice how the chimp sizes him up when the reporter wants to 'play'.

[dav231988]

"how are we playing?"

I LOLed on that one..

[evergrim]

Brings tears to my eyes, she fucking understand him.

[Educationey]

This warms my heart. I hope one day we will have monkey schools and apes can be RELATIVELY integrated into society.

[invisible0tom]

kanzi's obviously cleverer than the man she must have been thinking

how can i chase you if you stay still!

[Cozzi0]

I think it would be even better if they were raised like we were when we first began to evolve into what we are now, allowing them to learn and discover for themselfs and experiment with things.

[JOC1992]

That's really amazing. And what the woman said about what humans would be like if you raised them in captivity is completely right.

[tartra]

This was great. I really liked this video. I've watched maybe eight or so today and this is my favourite so far.

[bengold44]

rafi rozen an israeli mystic stated around 1974 that the bonobo apes have, thanks to their culture, telepatic ability.

[tehinfidel]

And Uri Geller can bend spoons, and Peter Popoff has the Healing Touch...

I think you need to watch this video on "Open-mindedness":

watch?v=T69TOuqaqXI

[menodimi1]

@bengold44 Maybe they can communicate with the "Palestinians"?

[03Dmartin]

@bengold44 so

[notthatbasic]

It was fun watching them play. Btw, Kanzi is a he, not a she (as the video description describes him).

[tehinfidel]

Ah, thank you. Not sure why I had the impression he was a female. I've updated the description.

[yvette32428]

What is the use of teaching an ape to read or write. What use will these animals have in human modern society? This is truly a waste of time, when this education can be taught to human children.

[tedb123z]

Not really--by understanding more about the cognitive processes in animals that are similar to us we better understand our own minds.  That, and we can perform experiments on captive animals that would be considered unethical on human subjects, so yay!

[jbartz]

LOL what? I don't think they're training them to be office temps or anything.

If you can't figure out why studying primates (that have the closest genetic relation to humans) has significant scientific value...loss for words...omg lol

(we wouldn't have a 'modern society' without gathering empirical data in order to understand and master/develop our environment/problem solving skills/technology/healthcare/s­urvival/psychology)

Jesus would be disappointed in you yvette (random digression/lol)

[NiGhtMarEs0nWax]

the study isnt to teach apes how to be human, its to find out whats makes us unique and where we came from, essentially what evolution is, its humbling.

how do you make a computer intelligent? how do we fly? by copying what nature has already designed of course.

i would put bets on this ape being more intelligent than you.

[Cozzi0]

I wouldnt say they are more intelligent but they have their unique traits like their photographic memory which suposadly we once had before we developed complex language i mean we still have photograpgic memory to a point we can remember faces, places and things we have seen. But a test has already proved they have amazing photograpgic memory and the ability to understand our language is incredible. Hopefully one day we can sit down and have a chat with a bonobo.

[kingsman565]

You should read Kokos kitten there's some video's about it on here.

[michalchik]

Not strickly a photographic memory but they do seem to have a better memory for the placement of assorted object. Personally i would rather have language, assuming there was such a trade-off.

[supermanpaki]

i agree with you. they should rather teach you.

[xjaskix]

this is atheistic garbage.

[supermanpaki]

what do you mean? because kanzi is not wearing a cross?

[Iambecome]

Where's Pinker?

[LBTennis]

We didn't even need to look out in to the universe to find other life like us. Its on our own planet

[MadMAn12gauge]

@LBTennis huh? life like ours? or life theirs you mean?

Make no mistake, the ability we have is a MISTAKE, just chance that bipedal apes fared better after the catastrophies. but...they are still here and we are doing to them what we once felt unethical and still have a hard time seeing of other races...that is the way of our species...cats and dogs dont see it, but it is universal in apes