Stop Everything You're Doing and Watch This Primate Build a Fire and Roast Marshmellows. - General

Bonobos can actually learn through Social Learning Theory which basically means he could have been 'taught' this just by watching people do it. Rather than being actively forced to learn over hundreds of hours.

[QUOTE=Livewire2440;44581088]Bonobos can actually learn through Social Learning Theory which basically means he could have been 'taught' this just by watching people do it. Rather than being actively forced to learn over hundreds of hours.[/QUOTE] I never knew Bonobos were so fucking cool. Could you imagine one watching someone use a computer and then eventually learning to surf the god damn internet. We could have monkey Facepunch members. [editline]24[/editline] I mean ape Facepunch members oops.

[QUOTE=amorax;44581019]I don't care if you don't care. I was simply expressing my exasperation at how slow FP (and the general public) is when it comes to this kind of thing, plus I got an excuse to post the article about Don the talking dog. It's not the only article and the psychologist's conclusion is only his interpretation, not undeniable truth. Most everyone else who listened to Don believed he could talk, and given all the other stuff there is with regards to animals and speech (see Alex and Einstein the talking parrots, [URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4Z0xn4pYSY"]this video[/URL] and Kanzi) I see no reason to doubt Don was capable of speech, even if it was much simpler than the average mans. [editline]18th April 2014[/editline] [video=youtube;y4Z0xn4pYSY]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4Z0xn4pYSY[/video][/QUOTE] same thing as ol long johnson lol

Simon Green can build a fir - oh.

[QUOTE=solid_jake;44580435]how could we evolve from an animal that burns their toasted marshmallows? check mate atheists[/QUOTE] All four of you; Stop using Google Translate. Your Swedish is terrible. Wait, what the hell, it's Google Chrome being weird, it translated four of the posts into (horrible) Swedish for some reason (it translated check mate into control your partner)

[QUOTE=Arc Nova;44580896]Well they don't have the same vocal chords as us so that's going to be near impossible, however we can talk to them through sign language.[/QUOTE] I've said this before; Words =/= Language. The ape can 'talk' but it cannot use language. It doesn't say " I am hungry" it says "hunger". I'm not even talking about their ability to speak, rather their ability to form and interpret language.

There are still physical limitations on how intelligent apes can be due to brain development. Humans went on a wild evolutionary tangent away from a lot of other primates and got that crazy brain.

[QUOTE=Zenreon117;44580877]When apes grasp the concept of grammar and language I will throw my hat off to them, until then they are still inferior.[/QUOTE] [QUOTE=Zenreon117;44581381]I've said this before; Words =/= Language. The ape can 'talk' but it cannot use language. It doesn't say " I am hungry" it says "hunger". I'm not even talking about their ability to speak, rather their ability to form and interpret language.[/QUOTE] Language is a well known concept already- it's not limited to the human verbal one. A bee-buzz is language to other bees. All animals have a mean to communicate through body, face, voice, movements etc, and Bonobos are no exception. Grammar, however, comes way down the line when it comes to languages, and is the only way we can express doubts, thoughts, desire, refer to non-existing things or things of the past/future, etc- another proof of our higher intelligence. (ie. an ape can't tell 'I hope it won't rain this weekend' to another ape. It can tell things of the here and now tho, like 'yes/no/look/go/come' etc.) The fact that we developed language as we developed thought is further reinforced by the fact that our phonatory system is parasitic to the digestive and respiratory ones. As in we're using our mouths, thongues, chords and lungs NOT for their intended purposes when we speak. But we do. That's the tighest shit ever.

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-fC9uNyhWo[/media]

Kanzi is fucking awesome. [video=youtube;Rh8gfIcjQNY]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rh8gfIcjQNY[/video]

That is phenomenal. I want to be friends with a primate.

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JDzlhW3XTM[/media] am I the only one who immediately thought of this

His face at :30 is like "Oh yeah fire you burn so good"

[QUOTE=TheTalon;44579990]The prospect of wild animals having and knowing how to use matches frightens me[/QUOTE] Somewhere in Africa gangs of apes are running around with old rusty machetes. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-kRoQZoRjU[/media] Bonus. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhxqIITtTtU[/media]

How did that monkey get the matches, though. Did he walk into a store and trade a bunch of bananas for a box of matches and a bag of marshmallows?

[QUOTE=notlabbet;44581017]bonobos are awesome, a whole society based on chilling, eating, and sex[/QUOTE] Once weed is legal everywhere we will level up to their status.

[QUOTE=RedNick27;44582333]Somewhere in Africa gangs of apes are running around with old rusty machetes. [/QUOTE] Dunno if you're serious or not but these are viral videos for Planet of the Apes [QUOTE=V12US;44582456]How did that monkey get the matches, though. Did he walk into a store and trade a bunch of bananas for a box of matches and a bag of marshmallows?[/QUOTE] how do you think

[QUOTE=HOUSE MASTER;44580340]Thankfully[/QUOTE] That's because they've already figured out inductive heating.

[QUOTE=Magman77;44581716]That is phenomenal. I want to be friends with a primate.[/QUOTE] All of your human friends are primates.

Reminds me of this video. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIdpZXC8840[/media]

Damn, those eyes are the first thing I noticed too. He seems to be pretty stoked to roast some marshmallows.

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