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Susan Savage-Rumbaugh: Apes that write, start fires and play Pac-Man

http://www.ted.com Savage-Rumbaugh's work with bonobo apes, which can understand spoken language and learn tasks by watching, forces the audience to rethink how much of what a species can do is de...  
 
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AbsolutelyCrackers (4 days ago) Show Hide
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I watched this video in psychology yesterday, I am now hooked and can't stop researching these fascinating animals. What I find strangest are their hands, when their hands are close up they could easily be the hands of a hairy human!
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Is the cat parasite you mention toxoplasmosis?
abram730 (1 week ago) Show Hide
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yes
faro0485 (3 weeks ago) Show Hide
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What of the claim that humans were turned into apes?

I only clicked on this tube for apes writing... what's with the fancy clip??
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sanandreas818 (2 months ago) Show Hide
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where the hell did that come from?
bentothetenthpower (2 months ago) Show Hide
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That's right! You do have every right to make uninformed, foolish generalizations. And every right to act on them and make a ton of stupid mistakes too! Yay for free will!
3loveiseverything (2 months ago) Show Hide
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wow, this is actually really fascinating. they are such amazing creatures :)
mint1k (2 months ago) Show Hide
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You're not very smart are you? You respond to all of my posts with this retarded post? You're hopeless.
MrHal90000 (2 months ago) Show Hide
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Or to a human cannibal.

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