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Scientist Gives Apes A Taste Of Fire…And They Love It
December 29th, 2009 | 
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We won the war. The other great apes – gorillas, orangutans and chimpanzees – put up a good fight in the evolutionary battles, but in the end we were victorious. It’s why we now have iPhones, whereas they are left with whoop-, holler- and buttock-based communication systems.
Well, we have to report that there are humans out there – traitors to our species, one might wish to call them – who are actively teaching apes how to use cigarette lighters. And not in the good, smoky, cancery way either. No, they are teaching these evolutionary losers how to use the lighter to make, and control, their own fires.
May God have mercy on our souls. Read the rest of this entry »
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Macaque Monkeys Live In “The Uncanny Valley”, Just Like Humans
Well, it’s been a busy week for scientists looking into how like humans macaque monkeys are. Just a few days after we were told that monkey mothers ‘baby’ their children in the same way human moms do, scientists have just described research showing that they are also vaguely disturbed by computer-generated depictions of other monkeys. Read the rest of this entry »