mohit | Shared With: Everyone - Jan 14 2008 | nature, congo, news, war, gorilla
So sad.
Quoted: The lush sanctuary - home to some of the world's last mountain gorillas - was thrust onto the front lines of Congo's latest war in September. Since then, the fragile habitat in the Central African highlands has been overrun by rebels and soldiers, transformed into an off-limits war zone.
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mohit | Shared With: Everyone - Dec 04 2007 | video, chimps, science, nature
click to playQuoted: Perhaps if they gave out beer instead of bananas as a reward for completing the task, the college students would have done better.
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mohit | Shared With: Everyone - Dec 04 2007 | video, chimps, memory, science, nature
Pretty amazing. Make sure you check out the videos. Here's one of them:
http://download.current-biology.com/supplementarydata/curbio/17/23/r1004/DC1/mmc7.mpgQuoted: Clearly, the chimps have the number thing down. So the researchers added an element of spatial memory, as you can see in this movie. After the first digit is touched by the test subject, the remaining numbers are obscured. As that video makes clear, this didn't slow down the chimp significantly. As a final test (shown here), the chimp is only afforded a brief glimpse of the numbers; his success rate didn't budge significantly. In contrast, humans (specifically college students) had a hard time with this test, barely outperforming the mother and losing badly to the young chimp.
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mohit | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 17 2007 | gorillas, nature, science, video
About one minute in, you see Koko the gorilla use a mirror to wipe some glitter off her nose.
Quoted: It used to be thought that only humans could recognize themselves in mirrors, and display self-awareness. Thanks to studies like Project Koko, we now know that all great apes have this ability.
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mohit | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 15 2007 | news, china, monkey, nature, macaque, pigeon
Not cute ;)
Quoted: They're an odd couple in every sense but a monkey and a pigeon have become inseparable at an animal sanctuary in China.
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mohit | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 03 2006 | news, science, elephants, nature
redotted from anjali.
Quoted: A 34-year-old female Asian elephant named Happy showed researchers that pachyderms can recognize themselves in a mirror — a highly complex behavior previously known in ...
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mohit | Shared With: Everyone - Oct 03 2006 | camping, nature, outdoorsCool...
Quoted: To the best of my recollection, I’ve never been lost in the woods (or elsewhere away from civilization)—or at least not sufficiently lost that I didn’t have a general sense of which direction I needed to go. But if I were, I’d have many options for getting my bearings. I recall learning, as a kid, that moss always grows on the north side of a tree, and then learning later on that under the right conditions, moss can grow on any side of a tree. When there’s no moss, or when the moss steers you wrong, you can use any of numerous other tricks to find north.
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mohit | Shared With: Everyone - Jun 20 2006 | science, nature, animals
Cool!
Quoted: Our editors have created a list about the top 10 hybrid animals. Hybrid animals are cross-breds between animals of similar genetics. They mostly exist in ...
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- mohit - Feb 21 2008
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You must be Mohit's friend before you can comment on this Fave.this is great. but i've just wasted 30 minutes already!
i love the music in this piece - it makes me feel like i'm watching a great ape caper, haha! also, i like the line about human culture that starts "from opera to oprah." quality!
i like how they really get to the bottom of what differentiates us from apes. they went deeper than just giving the standard (and incorrect/incomplete) answers of "culture" or the "ability to use tools".
you love apes.
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