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Alice came to a fork in the road. "Which road do I take?" she asked."Where do you want to go?" responded the Cheshire cat."I don't know," Alice answered."Then," said the cat, "it doesn't matter."

"So long as I get somewhere," Alice added as an explanation. "Oh, you're sure to do that," said the Cat, "if you only walk long enough."

"All right," said the Cat; and this time it vanished quite slowly, beginning with the end of the tail, and ending with the grin, which remained some time after the rest of it had gone. "Well! I've often seen a cat without a grin," thought Alice; "but a grin without a cat! It's the most curious thing I ever saw in my life!"

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Friday, March 03, 2006

Chimps Prove Altruistic and Cooperative



Chimps Prove Altruistic and Cooperative
Felix Warneken was in a tough spot. While hanging laundry, he had "accidentally" dropped a clothespin out of reach. Stretch as he might, he couldn’t grab it. He even cried out, "My pin!" A young chimpanzee sitting nearby picked up on Warneken’s distress and retrieved the clothespin for him.
Since the chimp received no reward, or even a "thank you," this experiment indicates
chimps can be altruistic, a quality many scientists thought only humans possessed.

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Anonymous Anonymous said...

As a side bar, I also saw a large group of chimps on one of those nature specials ,in the wild, on a group "hunt". Evidently,chimps get the hankering for meat in their diet and they didn't just grow those canine inscissors to smile pretty. They chased down some poor howler monkey ,in one of the most horrifing video clips I have ever seen, and tore him to pieces and ate him alive. True and natural altruism in the animal kingdom's realm.

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