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Re: How scientists taught monkeys the concept of money 

By: oldCADuser in FFFT | Recommend this post (2)
Thu, 22 Dec 11 5:10 AM | 64 view(s)
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How scientists taught monkeys the concept of money
By: Riana in FFFT
Thu, 22 Dec 11 4:29 AM 		Msg. 37326 of 65535

Interesting. Smile

How scientists taught monkeys the concept of money. Not long after, the first prostitute monkey appeared.

You may have thought things like currency or money are concepts known solely to man. Some might have a sense of ownership, besides of course territory, but trading and the likes haven’t been observed in any other species besides homo sapiens. An economist/psychologist duo from Yale back in 2005, however, managed to train seven capuchin monkeys how to use money, and I’m pretty sure from here on some of you might be able to guess what happened from there on.

Read more: http://www.zmescience.com/research/how-scientists-tught-monkeys-the-concept-of-money-not-long-after-the-first-prostitute-monkey-appeared/#ixzz1hDgsisRT


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