Line Blurs Between Man, Animal: Monkeys Do Math ; Baboons Seem To Read
PhysOrg2012-06-24: “It’s not a question of whether they think – it’s how they think,” says Duke University scientist Brian Hare. Now scientists wonder if apes are capable of thinking about what other apes are thinking. The evidence that animals are more intelligent and more social than we thought seems to grow each year, especially when it comes to primates. It’s an increasingly hot scientific field with the number of ape and monkey cognition studies doubling in recent years, often with better technology and neuroscience paving the way to unusual discoveries. This month scientists mapping the DNA of the bonobo ape found that, like…
Olive Baboon
It’s my cousin Louie! Where have you been Louie? We missed you.