Can Monkeys really be using primative writing - Susan Rumbaugh believes they are!
I was browsing the web for something that would interest me and came across the following video on www.ted.com (click link to view video). This intrigued me into looking more closely at the part of evolution that humans could well have been at this stage, however we did not have the interaction from more advanced species as the bonobo have had.
In this 17 minute long video Susan"Savage" Rumbaugh asks whether uniquely human traits, and other animals' behaviors, are hardwired by species. Then she rolls footage out that will make you think again: maybe not.
The bonobo apes she works with understand spoken English. One follows her instructions to take a cigarette lighter from her pocket and use it to start a fire. Bonobos are shown making tools, drawing symbols to communicate, and playing Pac-Man -- all tasks learned just by watching. Maybe it's not always biology that causes a species to act as it does, she suggests. Maybe it's cultural exposure to how things are done.
Having us "humans" interact with the bonobo could have been the breaking point for a new cultural community that should be viewed and studied, from a distance. This could answer some questions have only had suggestive answers to in the past.
In more recent articles on chimps, It has shown that they have an incredibly memory and other than the need to breed, the male chimp must impress or overpower the female before the mating can begin. Isnt this what humans used to do with big clubs during our part of evolution?
Unfortunately i will have to end this post here but ill re edit this with more links to information later tonight.
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