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Author:  Rumpole [ Fri May 11, 2012 7:27 am ]
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Stone-Throwing Chimp Thinks Ahead
ScienceNow
May 10, 2012
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Three years ago, a stone-throwing chimpanzee named Santino jolted the research community by providing some of the strongest evidence yet that nonhumans could plan ahead. Santino, a resident of the Furuvik Zoo in Gävle, Sweden, calmly gathered stones in the mornings and put them into neat piles, apparently saving them to hurl at visitors when the zoo opened as part of angry and aggressive “dominance displays.”


.......more at link
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/ ... ng-future/
Author:  Rumpole [ Fri May 11, 2012 7:28 am ]
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Chimpanzees May Use Innovative Foresighted Methods to Fool Humans


A team of researchers from Lund University in Sweden studying the behavior of Santino the chimpanzee at Furuvik Zoo in Stockholm has found that he uses innovative foresighted methods to fool zoo visitors.
His behavior was reported as an example of spontaneous planning for a future event, in which his psychological state was visibly quite different from that of his subsequent aggressive displays.
The new study, published in the journal PloS-ONE, shows that Santino not only gathers stones and manufactures projectiles in advance – he also finds innovative ways of fooling the visitors.
The behavior of the chimpanzee Santino is of particular interest because it is done while the humans to be deceived are out of sight. That means that the chimpanzee can plan without having immediate perceptual feedback of his goal – the visitors to the zoo – to aid in his planning. Previously, such cognitive abilities had been widely believed to be restricted to humans.

....more at link
http://www.sci-news.com/biology/article00309.html
Author:  Rumpole [ Fri May 11, 2012 7:29 am ]
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Chimp Shows Planning Abilities


Video report:
Author:  figg [ Fri May 11, 2012 10:11 pm ]
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Unlikely mothers: Adoption in the animal world

National Geographic magazine writer Jennifer S. Holland shares photos and stories of unlikely animal pairs that share a parent-child relationship from her book, “Unlikely Friendships: 47 Remarkable Stories from the Animal Kingdom.”


http://www.washingtonpost.com/conversations/unlikely-mothers-adoption-in-the-animal-world/2012/04/30/gIQAIN6MsT_gallery.html?tid=carousel#photo=1



figg :69
Author:  Rumpole [ Fri May 11, 2012 10:32 pm ]
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Hi Figg

Some very cute Combos

My fave (of course)......

Macaque and Cat

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Anne Young was on vacation visiting the Sacred Monkey Forest in Bali. "The pair had been together
a few days, and whenever the park staff tried to capture the kitten, it would just run back to the
monkey," Anne says. The macaque, a young male, would groom his feline friend, hug and nuzzle it,
and even lay his head on the kitten’s head as if it were a pillow.

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The macaque became wary of all the primates around him, and if other macaques or people got
too close, he would try to hide his prize — once even using a bit of leaf to cover it — or climb higher
or move deeper into the forest with the kitten in his arms. The kitten, meanwhile, had plenty of
opportunities to escape the macaque’s clutches, "but it made no attempt whatsoever," Anne Young says.
Author:  Maltese Mama [ Fri May 11, 2012 11:52 pm ]
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Here's my question for scientists: Why do humans think we are the only species capable of doing anything intelligent or loving?

I bought this book in 1997 that is full of wonderful, heartwarming and surprising stories about all different species of animals: "Peaceful Kingdom: Random Acts of Kindness by Animals" by Stephanie LaLand: (1997). It was republished in 2008 as "Random Acts of Kindness by Animals" by Stephanie LaLand.
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