Monkey See,Monkey Do.

Clermont1098 · 11-01-2015 7:31pm

Buford T. Justice V wrote: »

Also, researchers have identified 29 different sounds made by rats but have yet to identify their meaning.

Rats! There's always rats! Nidge.

ScumLord · 11-01-2015 7:35pm

kneemos wrote: »

Anybody know what the point is of teaching monkeys to copy human behaviour by basically teaching them tricks and putting it across as important research.

They're probably the lucky ones considering what's done to some of them for medical research,but it always struck me as totally pointless.What exactly do we find out other than monkeys are reasonably smart?

Ghost Train wrote: »

We share the same evolutionary path and our dna is mostly similar, so by studying them we might learn about how our own behaviour and cognitive ability developed and works

By monkeys I assume ye mean apes.

Being our closet DNA relative means we share a lot of behaviours and brain functions. Chimps have shown very human traits and tests revolve around things like do they feel the same sense of fairness, can they read maps and understand symbolism. Basically what functions do they or don't they have compared to us. This allows us to better understand how and when we picked up some of our more unique and advanced brain functions.

It can be a pretty disgusting line of research, at times it seems as bad as experimenting on people, but today's research is a bit more human and more focused on behaviour than cutting them up and transplanting their heads onto other bodies.

Buford T. Justice XIX · 11-01-2015 7:39pm

Clermont1098 wrote: »

Rats! There's always rats! Nidge.

All i want from this research in how to say...

'Fcuk off you dirty bloody rats before i have to beat you to death...' in Rat.

I HATE rats.

*shivers*

Capt'n Midnight · 12-01-2015 2:07am

The tale of the 5 monkeys in a cage with a banana and a ladder can be used to explain the typical Irish working attitude of "but that's the way we've always done things here"