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Wednesday, October 30, 2019

Human Like Animal Behaviours and Society, Random Stuff, and More

- while doing research for a medical search engine, various illnesses, and biology in general I discovered some interesting information regarding animal society and behaviour. What's surprised me is the level of relative advancement that they have despite their apparent primitive lifestyle and nature. These are some of my research notes
https://orangutanjungleschool.com/jelapat/
https://orangutanjungleschool.com/adoption/
https://orangutanjungleschool.com/where-to-watch/
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=orangutan+jungle+school
BOS Foundation
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIKyUhySXh0UBV5iRdWgeww/videos
https://www.youtube.com/user/adopterenorangutang/videos
https://www.youtube.com/user/ChimpHaven/videos
https://www.youtube.com/user/tacugama/videos
https://www.youtube.com/user/faunafoundation/videos
https://www.youtube.com/user/chimpsanctuarynw/videos
https://www.youtube.com/user/CenterForGreatApes/videos
https://www.youtube.com/user/JaneGoodallInstitute/videos
https://www.youtube.com/user/SharksandApes/videos
Project Chimps
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0b2YkxP72Z_OxMthO9LZHQ/videos
https://www.youtube.com/user/TheDodoSite/videos
https://www.youtube.com/user/SpeakForChimpanzees/videos
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=chimp+sanctuary
A Rare Look at the Secret Life of Orangutans _ Short Film Showcase
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fts6x_EE_E
Documentary Predators- Cute Animals The Last Orangutan Eden _ Orangutan Documentary BBC 2015
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6n68B3BjsI
World's Most Genius Ape Full Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=payXv3RFbsQ
Ape Genius
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wg-mPjhCnc8
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2021/10/guinea-pig-overview-random-stuff-and.html
- they share only with people or animals that they like?
A Shy Orangutan Shares Her Breakfast with a Friend
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQczGiqjEGw
Orangutan shares his food with Chimpanzee in Japanese Zoo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ComVemZhwY
강아지는 왜 아기를 지극정성으로 보살폈던걸까  l  뒤바뀐 갑을 관계
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U07jxLhQMv4
- animals seem to understand the concept of fairness, sharing, gratitude, etc?
fairness experiment dogs
Dogs have an intuitive understanding of fair play and become resentful if they feel that another dog is getting a better deal, a new study has found. The study, in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, looked at how dogs react when a buddy is rewarded for the same trick in an unequal way.
Dogs Understand Fairness, Get Jealous, Study Finds : NPR
Dogs have their own innate sense of fairness and did not learn this from humans as previously believed, a new study has concluded.
In fact the research suggested the opposite may be true – that dogs have learned greater acceptance of inequitable treatment as a result of their close relationship with people.
In tests, wolves and dogs would both refuse to take part if they received no reward for pressing a buzzer while a partner animal got one for doing so. The same was true if they received a lower quality prize.
It was thought that dogs had learned the importance of equality – seen as a sophisticated trait found in humans and some primates – during the domestication process, but the study found the wolves displayed a greater reluctance to take part once they realised what was going on.
monkey fair experiment
The piqued monkey, in a nonhuman-primate sort of way that looks pretty sophisticated, grasps the situation's unfairness. And it's not just this capuchin monkey, but others as well, as explained by Sarah Brosnan and de Waal in their article from 2003 called "Monkeys reject unequal pay.").
Watching those two monkeys in the video, I feel it's OK to be a little less hard on myself for any verbal outbursts about unfairness — maybe it's a primate thing to react in a peeved way when our expectations of fairness are violated.
Of course, the human world contains genuinely significant injustices — too many of them. Such inequities are no laughing matter. But I'm not thinking about those here; I mean only the small injustices we all experience on occasion.
And in that context, watching those capuchins makes me laugh, and helps me to get over myself.
Random acts of kindness and selflessness are not limited to humans alone. Wild animals who display utmost love and generosity for another in a prey-predator world are the best example for humans to be more compassionate.
A kind-hearted elephant was at a watering hole with its herd when it saw a hapless impala stuck in the mud. The roaring elephant kicked the impala to haul it out of the waterhole and save it from drowning. The jumbo then chased the impala away from the danger.   
Susanta Nanda IFS
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They don’t know each other..
They again might not be meeting each other...
But that doesn’t stop the elephant from rescuing an Impala caught in a waterhole
While elephants all seem adorable, with their innocent eyes and trunks, they are also loyal, quick to spot a threat and make a call to protect their friends. A viral video assures that elephants are the kind of friends who have your back.
A viral video clip of an elephant shows an adorable moment where jumbo rushing to rescue its human friend. Netizens are in awe of the elephant and have declared that they are "true friends".
The viral video shows two men in a fight, when a powerful pachyderm rushes in from the side and begins encircling the two as they brawl. It's hard to say whose side the animal was on but it definitely managed to stop the fight with its quick reaction. 
'Cat protects his dog friend
- they sing and enjoy meals together. Many are social
Life with Malamutes
“Footage of the singing gorillas is featured in the first episode of Spy in the Wild 2 and shows the apes reclining amid dense foliage in a sanctuary in Uganda,” the LiveScience article said. “As they munched on leaves and stems, they hummed to themselves in contentment, accompanying their vegetarian meal with a vocal ‘chorus of appreciation,’ according to the episode’s narrator.”
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“To keep genetic diversity strong, both males and females might leave their natal groups in search of new ones,” Currie said. “Males become dominant at around 12 to 14 years old, and females start giving birth around the age of 10, waiting around four years in between each infant. These babies are born as tiny, 5-pound bundles, not unlike humans, but they mature twice as fast—as the youngsters develop, they are as curious and playful as human toddlers, investigating and exploring with uncannily human-like tendencies.”
Gorillas’ social behaviors often compare to those of humans. Singing is just one of our qualities that overlap. Unfortunately, cameras have yet to capture any gorillas performing a guitar solo.
https://www.thegreatcoursesdaily.com/robot-gorilla-look-alike-records-wild-gorillas-singing/
Barry McGovern, an expert in dolphin behaviour, told 7NEWS.com.au it’s possible the dolphins are trying to express that they miss humans, but it’s unlikely.
“Nothing surprises me with dolphins and their behaviour anymore,” McGovern, a University of Queensland PhD student, told the outlet.
“They do everything — they use tools, they have culture, they have something similar to names in signature whistles,” McGovern said.
“In all likelihood, they probably don’t miss humans per se. They probably miss a free meal and the routine.”
They might be displaying a “play-like behaviour,” or just acting “out of boredom,” he said.
https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/dolphins-bring-gifts-ashore-as-humans-stay-away-during-lockdown/news-story/fe93350d627a96b28fb64dfd55c489c2
- they feel fear and desperation obviously
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/injured-wallaby-reaches-for-help-in-devastating-cobargo-fires/ar-BBYBAW9?li=AAgfIYZ
https://www.smh.com.au/national/koalas-drinking-from-human-hands-is-not-normal-20200108-p53px4.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7883255/Pug-spooked-Google-smart-speaker-makes-chimpanzee-noises.html
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/world/china-theme-park-draws-outrage-with-pig-bungee-jump/ar-BBZ91GG?li=AAgfYrC
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-01-20/pig-forced-to-bungee-jump-at-chinese-theme-park/11881920
https://www.radiotimes.com/tv-programme/e/kwwms5/baby-chimp-rescue--s1-e3-a-new-beginning/
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/10779086/frightening-moment-alaska-man-hides-in-his-shed-to-avoid-a-massive-moose/
https://www.9news.com.au/national/nsw-fires-tiny-koala-looking-for-water-rescued-by-truck-driver-in-nerriga/daca8785-3d9e-4110-813d-6156e8f58d4e?ocid=social-9news
Cyclist hand-feeds water to thirsty koala during Australia's heatwave
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rv7-vPmC344
quokka sleeping habits
Do Quokkas really throw their babies?
Quokkas do not need a lot of water to survive. Quokka mothers do not give birth to more than two babies a year. ... If a quokka mother is threatened by a predator she will often throw her baby on the ground to distract the predator and save her own life.
http://www.softschools.com/facts/animals/quokka_facts/2885/
Chimpanzee doing laundry wows visitors_ CCTV English
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sk0NWuxbZkw
Chore-Monkey _ World's Weirdest
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wuBqTDu_AI
Monkey Washing Cloth Amazing It REAL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMwsBpRo3Cw
“That’s Mabel,” said Thomas, the captain of that small crew, pointing to a 100-pound female. “Look! She likes to wash her food in the water.”
As if on cue, Mabel dunked her banana in the mud-brown river.
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At age 20, Thomas became a caretaker at the nonprofit organization’s chimp laboratory in remote Robertsville. He fed the animals, cleaned up after them and got to know their personalities, which ranged from shy to class clown.
He was promoted four years later to medical technician. The chimps were infected with hepatitis and river blindness, an eye sickness caused by a parasite, as researchers developed vaccines.
Chimp testing doesn’t happen anymore. They hate to be cooped up. They laugh, cry, get jealous and have temper tantrums — “just like us,” Thomas said.
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During that period, Thomas remembers pulling up to islands and seeing frantic, desperate animals. They screamed and fought over scraps. It wasn’t enough.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/africa/us-lab-chimps-were-dumped-on-liberias-monkey-island-and-left-to-starve-he-saved-them/2019/12/11/5bb35924-14f5-11ea-bf81-ebe89f477d1e_story.html
- they will knowingly help one another and humans as well?
Pretending To Faint In Front Of My Dogs And Baby! (Cutest Reactions Ever!!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0cTeWefVZg
“We’re very happy to see the positive responses people give to this picture,” Jamartin said. “Looking at this picture, we cannot help but wonder that wild animals could be kinder to human beings than us to them,” he told The Jakarta Post on Monday.
https://www.thejakartapost.com/life/2020/02/10/more-than-meets-the-eye-in-photo-of-orangutan-offering-help-to-man.html
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-02-07/water-diviner-wombats-bring-animals-to-water-hole/11937990
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7975207/Orangutan-reaches-help-man-protects-ape-snakes-Borneo.html
https://metro.co.uk/2020/02/07/orangutan-offers-save-mans-life-thinking-fallen-snake-filled-water-12197173/
https://phys.org/news/2020-06-wild-chimpanzees-cooperate-bonobos.html
“While we cannot study the behaviour of our human ancestors”, explains Roman Wittig, a senior author and head of the Taï Chimpanzee Project, “we can learn how relying on others may influence helping behaviour in our ancestors by studying our closest living relatives, chimpanzees and bonobos”. Chimpanzees are more territorial than bonobos and in some populations engage more frequently in group hunts. According to the interdependence hypothesis, chimpanzees should thus have evolved a higher tendency to cooperate and help others in the group.
To test this hypothesis, researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Harvard University and Liverpool John Moores University, presented 82 chimpanzees and bonobos from five different communities with a model of a Gaboon viper, a deadly snake. During the experiment the apes could cooperate with each other by producing alarm calls to inform conspecifics about the snake. This represents the first experimental study ever conducted in wild bonobos. “This experimental study is a novel and promising approach to probe bonobo’s mind” says Gottfried Hohmann, a senior author on the study and head of the LuiKotale bonobo project. Martin Surbeck, co-author on the paper adds: “This study should stimulate several more experimental studies on wild bonobo cooperation, cognition, and communication”.
In this study, researchers show that both chimpanzees and bonobos can assess what others know, as they stopped calling when all individuals around had seen the snake. However, chimpanzees warned each other more efficiently: individuals arriving later at the snake were less surprised upon seeing it than late arriving bonobos. This suggests chimpanzees were better informed of the snake’s presence than bonobos. Indeed, late arriving chimpanzees were more likely to hear a call before reaching the snake than bonobos in the same circumstance, suggesting that the motivation to help and warn others was higher in chimpanzees.
“Our findings support the theory that the extreme reliance on each other in humans, for instance during war and group hunting, may have promoted the evolution of some forms of help and support to others, even sometimes to complete strangers” says first author Cédric Girard-Buttoz. The authors confirm that chimpanzees may have some awareness of others’ knowledge and demonstrate for the first time this ability in wild bonobos.
“How chimpanzees and bonobos apparently keep track of other’s knowledge, the specific cognitive skills to do this, are not clear””, adds Catherine Crockford, last author of the study, “we face a major challenge  to understand which cognitive skills are unique to humans and which are shared with other apes”.
https://www.mpg.de/15014355/in-the-wild-chimpanzees-are-more-motivated-to-cooperate-than-bonobos
- they have favourite toys, positions, foods, and snacks?
An Overweight Orangutan Loses His Banana Privileges
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuKpcmW0Vnc
Chimps Make BIG Chocolate Chip Cookies | Myrtle Beach Safari
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgzV16RtesU
Is My Dog Broken!!
Is My Dog Broken! Hugging Them And Their Reactions! (Why Are They SO CUTE!!)
https://laughingsquid.com/giant-panda-loudly-eats-carrot/
https://www.msn.com/en-au/video/viral/pet-raccoon-chows-down-on-favorite-treat/vi-BBYIQfk
https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2015/sep/21/pizza-rat-new-york-subway-video
https://people.com/pets/zack-fat-chonky-cat-gets-adopted/
https://www.onenewspage.com.au/video/20200222/12848644/Mom-and-Baby-Moose-Snackin-on-Pumpkin.htm
https://www.theleader.com.au/story/6643603/wandering-bear-visits-los-angeles-suburb/?cs=13067
https://www.cityofmonrovia.org/discover-monrovia/samson-the-hot-tub-bear
http://mplheritage.blogspot.com/2011/08/samson-hot-tub-bear.html
https://www.ultramodern.com/story-samson-hot-tub-bear/
The Japanese macaque is an intelligent species. Researchers studying this species at Koshima Island in Japan left sweet potatoes out on the beach for them to eat, then witnessed one female, named Imo (Japanese for yam or potato), washing the food off with river water rather than brushing it off as the others were doing, and later even dipping her clean food into salty sea water.[50][51][52] After a while, others started to copy her behavior. This trait was then passed on from generation to generation, until eventually all except the oldest members of the troop were washing their food and even seasoning it in the sea.[50][51] She was similarly the first observed balling up wheat with air pockets, throwing it into the water, and waiting for it to float back up before picking it up and eating it free from soil.[51][52] An altered misaccount of this incident is the basis for the "hundredth monkey" effect.[53]
The macaque has other unusual behaviours, including bathing together in hot springs and rolling snowballs for fun.[51] Also, in recent studies, the Japanese macaque has been found to develop different accents, like humans.[54] Macaques in areas separated by only a few hundred miles can have very different pitches in their calls, their form of communication. The Japanese macaque has been involved in many studies concerning neuroscience and also is used in drug testing.[citation needed]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_macaque
- they get itchy
- animals seem to understand the concept of grief and mourning
animal mourning
In 1879, Arthur E. Brown studied how a male chimpanzee reacted after the death of his female counterpart. He saw the male chimpanzee display grief and "a cry which the keeper of the animals assures [Brown] he had never heard before").[3] Continuing to the next day, the chimpanzee sulked and barely moved. Brown deciphered that the male chimpanzee was depressed after the female chimpanzee died. However, Brown concluded that any permanent grief is only found in man, as the chimpanzee seemed fine after a couple of days.
William E. Ritter (1925) connects animal and human emotion to provide evidence of human descent from the animal kingdom. He mentions the James-Lange theory, where "all emotional stages as of joy, grief, fear, anger, jealousy, love, are associated with more or less characteristic bodily manifestation".[4] Ritter proposes new evidence to the theory, mentioning that no item on the above list is exclusive to humans, and most are common to the animal world. He argues that because the connection between human emotion and animal emotion is so strong, humans have descended from the animal kingdom.
monkey burial
On 10 October 2003, a researcher watched as a female elephant named Eleanor collapsed. Her swollen trunk had been dragging on the ground while her ears and legs displayed evidence of another recent fall. One of her tusks was broken. An elephant named Grace, a member of a different social group, galloped towards Eleanor and tried to heave Eleanor back to her feet with her massive tusks, but Eleanor's back legs were too weak. The rest of the herd had moved on, but Grace remained with Eleanor at least another hour, until the sun disappeared below the horizon and night fell over Kenya. Eleanor died the following morning at 11am.
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But humans and elephants aren’t the only ones to visit the bodies of the recently deceased. On 6 May 2000, a dead female dolphin was spotted on the seabed, 50 metres from the eastern coast of Mikura Island, near Japan. Two adult males remained with the body at all times, leaving the body only briefly to return to the surface to breathe. As the cause of death was unknown, divers attempted to retrieve the body. However, the presence of the two males prevented a successful retrieval. Returning the following day in an additional effort to recover the carcass, the researchers found the same two males guarding the female, again making recovery impossible. By the third day, the carcass had disappeared. Researchers assumed that it had simply drifted into deeper waters. 
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Chimpanzees, on the other hand, maintain their routines. When an infant chimpanzee dies, his or her mother will carry the lifeless body around for days. Sometimes for weeks or months. The mother continues to groom the body, slowing the inevitable decay. She only stops interacting with the corpse when it has decomposed so much that it is no longer recognizable. When a three-month-old female chimpanzee was killed in June at the LA Zoo, keepers allowed Gracie to retain her infant's body for several days, so that she'd be able to carry out this sort of chimpanzee grieving process.

This chimpanzee ritual was described in depth after researchers in Zambia chanced upon a female named Masya who was interacting with the dead body of her four-month-old infant. Writing in the American Journal of Primatology, researcher Katherine Cronin speculates: "The behaviours expressed by this female chimpanzee when she first endures physical separation from her dead infant provide valuable insight into… the possible ways in which chimpanzees gather information about the state of responsiveness of individuals around them (hence learning about ‘death’)." Similar practices have been observed among gorillas, baboons, macaques, lemurs, and geladas.
https://www.myguaranteedplan.ca/funeral-preplanning-news1
- they will adopt one another and even between species? Inter species friendship may be more common then I thought?
https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/other/this-video-of-a-mother-elephant-protecting-her-baby-calf-will-make-you-smile-watch/ar-BB15AqGm
Adoptive Mother And Baby Orangutan Need To Be Separated _ Orangutan Island
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9INi-YEQYE
Orangutan and Monkey _ Unlikely Animal Friendships _ Love Nature
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxoLd0PDNaQ
The Cat & The Ducklings (Animal Odd Couples)
The Chicken & Cat Talk to Each Other
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5zs9IGb8AQ
 Adolescent chimpanzees adopt their younger siblings if their mothers die. The older siblings keep a close watch on the youngsters, protect them from threats, and give them lots of comforting snuggles.
The finding adds to the evidence that chimpanzees can understand when others are suffering, and to some extent can help them. In line with this, a second study shows that chimpanzees have a strong emotional response when they see that another chimp, or a familiar human, is injured.
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2207312-death-of-mother-prompts-adolescent-chimps-to-look-after-their-siblings/
inter species adoption
Protective behaviour exhibited from one species onto another can lead to an interspecies friendship as it allows the formation of a bond to occur between species.[26] This is often observed in interspecies adoptions in which one species "adopts" another that is orphaned or hurt.[26] For example, an infant marmoset was adopted by capuchin monkeys and the marmoset became socially included and protected in their group.[26] Other examples include a ram protecting a blind cow and a steer protecting a blind mule.[4][19] In each circumstance, interspecies friendships are formed after the protectors assumed protective roles.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interspecies_friendship
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=monkey+dog+friend
Orangutan Adopts A Dog | Real Wild
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Co1Xjw0OD5w
India: Monkey adopts adorable stray puppy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlpmDQJ5hV4
- apparently, chimps cling on to their mothers until ~5 years of age while orangutans cling on till ~9 years of age. Roughly, the right amount of time for primates to learn to fend for themselves. Baby orphan orangutans will cling on to one another even if supposed snakes are chasing after them and they're running for their lives?
How Caretakers Teach Orangutans to Fear Snakes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vUM8qFX1fs
Baby Orangutans Learn How to Crack Coconuts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTtsHKKb-CI
Chimp Little Larry Learns to Climb
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nw94Z0B7i_E
- some of them really dislike bath time
MY MALAMUTE HATES BATH TIME _ TRIES TO HIDE AND REFUSES TO BE WASHED
- animals seem to have a societal structure? Less violent animals specicies effectively have their own version of democracy?
primate social order choosing
Some animals are surprisingly sensitive to the plight of others. Chimpanzees, who cannot swim, have drowned in zoo moats trying to save others. Given the chance to get food by pulling a chain that would also deliver an electric shock to a companion, rhesus monkeys will starve themselves for several days.
Biologists argue that these and other social behaviors are the precursors of human morality. They further believe that if morality grew out of behavioral rules shaped by evolution, it is for biologists, not philosophers or theologians, to say what these rules are.
Moral philosophers do not take very seriously the biologists’ bid to annex their subject, but they find much of interest in what the biologists say and have started an academic conversation with them.
The original call to battle was sounded by the biologist Edward O. Wilson more than 30 years ago, when he suggested in his 1975 book “Sociobiology” that “the time has come for ethics to be removed temporarily from the hands of the philosophers and biologicized.” He may have jumped the gun about the time having come, but in the intervening decades biologists have made considerable progress.
Last year Marc Hauser, an evolutionary biologist at Harvard, proposed in his book “Moral Minds” that the brain has a genetically shaped mechanism for acquiring moral rules, a universal moral grammar similar to the neural machinery for learning language. In another recent book, “Primates and Philosophers,” the primatologist Frans de Waal defends against philosopher critics his view that the roots of morality can be seen in the social behavior of monkeys and apes.
chimp overthrow tyrant
- they know when they've been lied to or abandoned?
Devoted dog couldn’t stop crying at the shelter after he realized that he had been abandoned
Rescue Poor Abandoned Puppy Crying and Shaking in Severe Scared, Sadness.. in Abandoned House
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyEOxsi6UP8
- they go to war sometimes?
animal war
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=animal+war
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2016/01/160130-animals-insects-ants-war-chimpanzees-science/
https://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2016/08/12/the-largest-animal-war-in-history-is-happening-right-beneath-our-feet/#72ee99764ca3
- they get frustrated, get into fights, and feel exasperation with humans from time to time?
Angry bird avenges its pride after snowboarder carelessly snows it during descent
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXfE9f7i_w0
Crazy Koala Climbing A Fence (Funny)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1Vc0CvlUvc
Unforgettable encounter with super cute Koala wanting kisses, cuddles... and water
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ry5jTvGPiH8
https://www.popularmechanics.com/adventure/outdoors/a30171332/moose-fight-video/
https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/what-was-the-gombe-chimpanzee-war.html
- a lot of them like to have fun!
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/orangutan-baby-adorably-plays-empty-132501210.html
https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/indonesia-s-most-iconic-wild-animals-that-you-must-see.html
panda like snow
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/giant-pandas-love-snow/
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/davidmack/panda-snow-fun
- there are more social animals then solitary ones?
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/wild-orangutan-spotted-casually-walking-080000964.html
https://www.msn.com/en-ca/video/watch/baby-orangutan-chases-hikers-through-rainforest/vi-AAJavTx
solitary animals
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sociality#Presociality
- they get really tired sometimes as well?
I Thought He Would Never Get Back Up! Tired Pup Refuses To Move!
- animals engage in forced sex but it's rarer then you'd expect?
animal raping one another
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/03/animals-rape-murder-morality-humans/585049/
A revelatory set of studies in the 1980s and 1990s by Richard Connors, who is now at the University of Massachussetts, Dartmouth, on bottlenose dolphins in Western Australia showed how these extremely friendly and social creatures formed alliances to guard the females of their group against rape.
While one way to interpret such findings would be through attributing traits of chivalry and gallantry to these affable creatures, a more pragmatic interpretation is realizing that the males move as much to restrict sexual access to their females. Competing groups of dolphins may raid rival territories for their females and some may even pretend to be defenders only to turn aggressors.
Here’s how Barbara Smuts, a professor at the University of Michigan and a longtime observer of social relations in several primates—including hamadryas baboons, chimpanzees and orangutans—describes, in a seminal popular-science article in Discover magazine in 1995, masculine coercion of the female.
“…Sometimes, as I saw in Gombe (a wildlife reserve in Tanzania), a male chimpanzee even attacks an estrous female days before he tries to mate with her. Goodall (Jane, a pioneering ethologist) thinks that a male uses such aggression to train a female to fear him so that she will be more likely to surrender to his subsequent sexual advances. Similarly, male hamadryas baboons, who form small harems by kidnapping child brides, maintain a tight rein over their females through threats and intimidation. If, when another male is nearby, a hamadryas female strays even a few feet from her mate, he shoots her a threatening stare and raises his brows. She usually responds by rushing to his side; if not, he bites the back of her neck. The neck bite is ritualized—the male does not actually sink his razor-sharp canines into her flesh—but the threat of injury is clear. By repeating this behaviour hundreds of times, the male lays claim to particular females months or even years before mating with them. When a female comes into estrus, she solicits sex only from her harem master, and other males rarely challenge his sexual rights to her."
The full article is a brilliant exposition of the fascinating evidence of social control in non-human primates and concludes with the intriguing hypothesis that there is a marked difference of violence in primates where females form defensive alliances of their own, and in primate species where such a defensive coterie is absent.
Among the big outstanding questions in research endeavours that aim to explain behaviour in biological terms—as the extremely intriguing but divisive science of sociobiology tries to do—is whether the capacity for calculated violence that exists in humans is an inextricable flipside of our ability for selflessness.
https://www.livemint.com/Opinion/jkywrmQMip9SG6QVYDoe0H/Rape-in-the-animal-kingdom.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sociobiological_theories_of_rape
https://www.quora.com/Do-rapes-happen-in-other-species-of-animals
- like humans they engage in sex for pure recreation and enjoyment sometimes? There are many homosexual animals out there
monkey enjoy humping
monkey sex with other animals
Do animals mate with other species?
Usually, different species don't mate. But when they do, their offspring will be what are called hybrids. ... If the parents are from the same species, their DNA is very similar. But DNA from different species or species groups will have more variations.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-reproductive_sexual_behavior_in_animals
primate homosexuality
Homosexual behavior in animals is sexual behavior among non-human species that is interpreted as homosexual or bisexual. This may include same-sex sexual activity, courtship, affection, pair bonding, and parenting among same-sex animal pairs.[1][2][3] Various forms of this are found in every major geographic region and every major animal group. The sexual behavior of non-human animals takes many different forms, even within the same species, though homosexual behavior is best known from social species.
Scientists perceive homosexual behavior in animals to different degrees. The motivations for and implications of these behaviors have yet to be fully understood.[citation needed] According to Bruce Bagemihl, the animal kingdom engages in homosexual behavior "with much greater sexual diversity – including homosexual, bisexual and nonreproductive sex – than the scientific community and society at large have previously been willing to accept."[4] Bagemihl adds, however, that this is "necessarily an account of human interpretations of these phenomena".[5] Simon LeVay stated that "[a]lthough homosexual behavior is very common in the animal world, it seems to be very uncommon that individual animals have a long-lasting predisposition to engage in such behavior to the exclusion of heterosexual activities. Thus, a homosexual orientation, if one can speak of such thing in animals, seems to be a rarity."[6] One species in which exclusive homosexual orientation occurs, however, is that of domesticated sheep (Ovis aries).[7][8] "About 10% of rams (males), refuse to mate with ewes (females) but do readily mate with other rams."[8]
According to Bagemihl (1999), same-sex behavior (comprising courtship, sexual, pair-bonding, and parental activities) has been documented in over 450 species of animals worldwide.[9]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexual_behavior_in_animals
https://evolution-institute.org/can-monkeys-be-gay-what-homosexual-behavior-in-primates-can-tell-us-about-the-evolution-of-human-sexuality/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mammals_displaying_homosexual_behavior
- it's obvious that many of them have a means of communication but because many haven't mastered symbology and information storage they may have dialects/languages within their species which may mean that communication between different groups may be difficult or impossible?
primate communication
Monkeys sometimes produce terrestrial predator alarms when competing over food, even though no predator is around. As a result, other group members run to safety, which then gives the caller a foraging advantage (Wheeler 2009). In general, however, primates rarely produce such dishonest signals, or ‘cry wolf'. Why is dishonest signalling not more common? One solution has been given by Zahavi's (1975) ‘handicap principle', which states that receivers will only attend to signals that are difficult to fake by low-quality or poorly motivated individuals. It has also been argued that, in primates, individuals know and need each other and thus gain little from deception (Silk et al. 2000). Moreover, primates can learn to ignore unreliable signallers (Cheney & Seyfarth 1988), suggesting that ‘reputation' acts as a further safeguard against dishonest signalling. Honest signalling prevails because of sceptical receivers.
bear communication
How does a bear communicate?
When the need arises, they communicate with grunts by expelling air in different ways, or with a resonant “voice.” Bears use the same vocalizations and body language toward people that they do toward each other, and knowing those sounds can help people react appropriately to bears they encounter.
Bears are not mean or malicious; they are very gentle and tolerant animals. Mother bears are affectionate, protective, devoted, strict, sensitive and attentive with their young. Not unlike people, bears can be empathetic, fearful, joyful, playful, social and even altruistic.
http://www.bearsmart.com/about-bears/general-characteristics/
cow communication
Cows and their calves communicate using calls that are individualised in a similar way to human names, scientists have discovered. ... They identified two distinct maternal calls – low sounds when a mother was close to her calf, and louder, higher pitched calls when they were out of visual contact.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/11297269/Cows-communicate-using-individual-sounds-like-human-names.html
Cows vocalize for a number of reasons and usually if they are mooing it's because they are unhappy. A group of happy cows is usually silent other than the munching sound they make while chewing cud or eating. ... Another call is that of a cow looking for herdmates.
https://www.quora.com/Why-do-cows-moo
- it's possible that some they engage in dating and that they believe in a form of marriage and love and that life is a gift?
Three’s a Crowd in this Orangutan Relationship
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwPFnFhl_z0
Dogs Crying When He Meets Owner After 2 year, 5 year,10 year   separation
monogamy animal kingdom
2. Snowy owls
Pairs of snowy owls typically mate for life. The only exception to this occurs when there is a surplus of food, in which case two females may breed with one male. (For more about why owls are simply superb, check out this recent Pop Sci post.)
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3. Male dik-diks
A species of adorable, tiny antelope, dik-diks are sexually monogamous. They follow around their female mates all year long, sticking close to them to prevent inter-lopers (see what I did there?) and over-marking the females' scents with their own so nobody else can pick up their lovers' scents.
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7. Owl monkeys
These tiny tropical tree-dwellers known for being the only nocturnal monkey. They mate for life and are completely monogamous, with males taking on most of the child-rearing responsibilities.

8. California mice
A species of rodent native to California and Mexico, these mice are socially and sexually monogamous. Like owl monkeys, male California mice take on the bulk of the parenting responsibilities.
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9. Bald eagles
Bald eagles mate for life, but with two caveats. If one or both of them cannot produce offspring, they will break up and look for other mates; in addition, if one dies, the survivor will not hesitate to accept a new mate. (Compare this to the depression that prairie voles experience, for example, or the way that other pair-bonded animals will never pair-bond again, and you can see why bald eagles aren't considered to be completely monogamous.)
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10. Albatrosses
Albatrosses mate for life, often after spending years—even decades—finding the right mate. To find a mate, they perform an elaborate dancing ritual that is unique to each bonded pair. (Having now watched a dozen different videos to try to find the perfect one for you—see above—I am blown away by how unique each of these dances really is.) Once bonded, albatrosses spend very little time together, as most of their time is spent alone out at sea; but the time they do spend together tends to be filled with affection and cuddles.
Funny Chimp Asking Soda and Banana at Zoo
Smart chimp...Bummer it's Pepsi
Smart Monkey Drink Coca Cola With Woman In Cambodia
Amazingly clever chimpanzee communicating with zoo visitors
Orangutan saws a tree - Spy in the Wild - Episode 2 Preview - BBC One
Monkey the Coca Cola thief
Monkey Crazy for Soda Drink .. LOL
Funny Chimp Asking Soda and Banana at Zoo
Coke and Pepsi Test Evolution With Chimps
Crimean cuteness - 4 rare white lion cubs born in Taigan Safari Park
Toronto Zoo Giant Panda vs. Snowman
Funny alert! Panda passed out after smelling his own poop...
Monkey smells poop and dies!!!
Snow cup and ball trick compliation!
curlysnow0915
Pitbull Alarm Clock with Snooze Feature (cute dog)
Waking up a thankful doggo having a nightmare.
Dogs Innocently Stare at Owner After Getting Caught Eating Spaghetti - 1064956
Pitbull says he is STARVING!! Yeesss.. He’s DRAMATIC!!
Guinea Pigs Play Tug-of-War With Blade of Grass
Rescue kanga-dog insists on daily couch cuddles with dad
- it's possible that they have come up with their own laws, morals, and may even believe in a form of religion?
animal morality
Animals possess a sense of morality that allows them to tell the difference between right and wrong, according to a controversial new book. Scientists studying animal behaviour believe they have growing evidence that species ranging from mice to primates are governed by moral codes of conduct in the same way as humans.
democracy in primates
Observations in the wild indicate that the males among the related common chimpanzee communities are hostile to males from outside the community. Parties of males 'patrol' for the neighboring males that might be traveling alone, and attack those single males, often killing them.[68] This does not appear to be the behavior of bonobo males or females, which seem to prefer sexual contact over violent confrontation with outsiders.[4] In fact, the Japanese scientists[specify] who have spent the most time working with wild bonobos describe the species as extraordinarily peaceful, and de Waal has documented how bonobos may often resolve conflicts with sexual contact (hence the "make love, not war" characterization for the species). Between groups, social mingling may occur, in which members of different communities have sex and groom each other, behavior which is unheard of among common chimpanzees. Conflict is still possible between rival groups of bonobos, but no official scientific reports of it exist.
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Recent studies show that there are significant brain differences between bonobos and chimps. The brain anatomy of bonobos has more developed and larger regions assumed to be vital for feeling empathy, sensing distress in others and feeling anxiety, which makes them less aggressive and more empathic than their close relatives. They also have a thick connection between the amygdala, an important area that can spark aggression, and the ventral anterior cingulate cortex, which helps control impulses. This thicker connection may make them better at regulating their emotional impulses and behavior.[72]
Bonobo society is dominated by females, and severing the lifelong alliance between mothers and their male offspring may make them vulnerable to female aggression.[4] De Waal has warned of the danger of romanticizing bonobos: "All animals are competitive by nature and cooperative only under specific circumstances" and that "when first writing about their behaviour, I spoke of 'sex for peace' precisely because bonobos had plenty of conflicts. There would obviously be no need for peacemaking if they lived in perfect harmony."[73]
- it's obvious that they can figure out basic math, arithmetic, science, and maybe even medicine?
Animal doctors - how do they heal themselves (Documentary, 2014)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbvENEzZzcA
Baby Orangutans Learn How to Crack Coconuts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTtsHKKb-CI
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-01-06/think-twice-before-you-share-cute-photos-of-animals/11817478
https://www.instagram.com/limbanizwf/?hl=en
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/laurenstrapagiel/chimp-using-phone-instagram
“In the past, when elephants were sick, they were often released back into the forest. The sick elephants would seek leaves and herbs to treat themselves. But now forests have been largely destroyed; there are few medicinal plants left,” Long added.
Long said elephants were big animals that were generally in good health. Most of their diseases are caused by working too hard and carrying loads that are far too big.
“In recent years, elephants tend to have more tumours in their bodies. The tumours stem from polluted food and water, which leads to lack of nutrition and resistance in their bodies,” he added.
Long often uses the bark of lộc vừng (fish poison tree or barringtonia), and leaves of trâm (Jamblon or syzygium cumini) and some salt boiled to rinse off the injured areas. After sterilising the injury, Long uses soil taken from the nest of termites or fermented rice to cover the open injury.
“Both substances have antibiotic functions and kill parasites and work very well for elephants with tumours,” Long said.
http://vietnamnews.vn/english-through-the-news/423549/elephant-struggle-to-stay-healthy.html
http://theconversation.com/chimpanzees-eat-plants-that-point-to-new-ways-of-treating-diseases-84301
chimp understand science
Back in 1999, a team of scientists led by Andrew Whiten (and including Jane Goodall) showed that chimpanzees from different parts of Africa behave very differently from one another. Some groups use sticks to extract honey, while others use those same tools to fish for ants. Some would get each other’s attention by rapping branches with their knuckles, while others did it by loudly ripping leaves with their teeth. The team identified 39 of these traditions that are practiced by some communities but not others—a pattern that, at the time, hadn’t been seen in any animal except humans. It was evidence, the team said, that chimps have their own cultures.
It took a long time to convince skeptics that such cultures exist, but now we have plenty of examples of animals learning local traditions from one another. Some orangutans blow raspberries at each other before they go to bed. One dolphin learned to tail-walk from captive individuals and spread that trick to its own wild peers once released. Humpbacks and other whales have distinctive calls and songs in different seas. And chimps still stand out with “one of the most impressive cultural repertoires of nonhuman animals,” says Ammie Kalan, of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
But just when many scientists have come to accept the existence of animal cultures, many of those cultures might vanish. Kalan and her colleagues have shown, through years of intensive fieldwork, that the very presence of humans has eroded the diversity of chimpanzee behavior. Where we flourish, their cultures shrivel. It is a bitterly ironic thing to learn on the 20th anniversary of Whiten’s classic study.
“It’s amazing to think that just 60 years ago, we knew next to nothing of the behavior of our sister species in the wild,” Whiten says. “But now, just as we are truly getting to know our primate cousins, the actions of humans are closing the window on all we have discovered.”
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Since 2010, Kalan has been working on the Pan African Programme, an intensive effort to catalog chimp behavior in 46 sites across the species’ entire range, led by Hjalmar Kühl, Christophe Boesch, and Mimi Arandjelovic. At each site, the team checked whether chimps were carrying out any of 31 different behaviors, including many from Whiten’s original list, and some that had only been recently discovered. “We had things like termite fishing, ant fishing, algae fishing, stone throwing, leaf clipping, using sticks as marrow picks, using caves, bathing, and nut cracking,” Kalan says.
monkey arithmetic
animals using tools
https://www.livescience.com/9761-10-animals-tools.html
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=orangutan+using+tools
- a lot of them are good parents but some struggle with it?
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=orangutan+reject+baby
Teenage Orangutan Rejects Her New Born Baby | Orangutan Jungle School
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JPZUMI5NdU
Incredible moment baby gorilla is born but then rejected
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayps1nM6-TE
- they steal food when hungry or lazy
https://www.foxnews.com/great-outdoors/bear-steals-catch-off-fishermans-line-alaska
https://www.newsoptimist.ca/news/bear-encounters-up-14-per-cent-in-saskatchewan-1.24182340
- they can choose their diet sometimes
https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/world/the-giant-panda-is-a-closet-carnivore/ar-AAG2rYI?li=BBSVbAt
http://www.sfltimes.com/news/farmer-warns-cow-scaring-video-creators-theyll-run-over-and-kill-you
- some of them like to go swimming
https://www.msn.com/en-ca/lifestyle/travel/news/bear-visits-okanagan-backyard-takes-brief-pool-dip-before-being-shooed-away/ar-BB180zHN
- they're curious which means they can sometimes get into trouble
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/wildlife-officers-free-moose-that-got-entangled-in-rope/ar-BB180gfQ
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/chimpanzee-sees-reflection-makes-hilarious-135005086.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8646351/Silverback-gorilla-son-watch-caterpillar-Higashiyama-Zoo-enclosure.html
- they're protective of their children
https://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-updates/incidents/bison-rips-off-womans-pants-in-horrifying-attack-caught-on-video/news-story/70e5b0167c7e82bcc131df2cd5205a72
https://www.foxnews.com/science/worlds-youngest-gorilla-held-by-mother-hours-arriving-british-zoo
https://www.foxnews.com/science/lioness-snuggling-with-cubs-african-game-reserve
- they play a part in the human economy as well?
https://www.traveller.com.au/animals-and-coronavirus-covid19-animals-that-rely-on-tourism-are-suffering-around-the-world-h1q4cx
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/worldnews/12444192/monkey-slave-schools-coconuts-supermarket-thailand-sex-street-performers/
https://www.ibtimes.sg/slave-trade-remembrance-day-monkeys-being-used-coconut-farms-orangutans-sex-slavery-50519
- they are highly adaptable
Why are bears hugging and licking trees in Georgia? Bear experts have an explanation
https://www.newsobserver.com/news/nation-world/national/article244794527.html
https://www.juneauempire.com/news/bear-breaks-into-car-chasing-scent-of-pizza/
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8575557/Orangutan-no-arms-learns-climb-trees-using-legs.html
https://www.msn.com/en-in/entertainment/bollywood/watch-orangutan-s-reaction-after-having-first-sip-of-coffee-is-all-of-us-in-the-morning/ar-BB16tA4C
- it's obvious that they understand bartering/trade/finance and experience many similar emotions and feelings that humans do such courage, fear, brotherhood, friendship, family values, etc... They seem to understand the concept of value, property law and have attempted to achieve communication with humans?
Chimp Learns to Trade _ Extraordinary Animals _ BBC Earth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UY9lWUfmDf0
Monkey Steals Banana from Orangutan's Mouth - Instant Regret
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nB0TVSTaEZw
Bear and Man Spook Each Other
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1Sy9RatBs0
https://www.msn.com/en-ae/news/other/video-camel-hugs-owner-as-they-reunite-after-days/ar-BBYurys
https://www.hindustantimes.com/it-s-viral/adorable-video-of-camel-hugging-its-human-is-all-kinds-of-delightful/story-vaRcy6Qk9VrG0y6cTCRROL.html
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=orangutan+dog
This dog was depressed until he met an unusual friend
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcpCaUqLeBg
Little chimp greets foster parents with hugs and hoots
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YKaPTWVN4g
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/11/bovine-friends-forever/598417/
https://www.treehugger.com/travel/costa-rica-wants-stop-animal-selfies.html
SMART Chimp Asks Zoo Visitors For Drink | The Dodo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SG8d52cVG_E
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=panda+exchange
Nanny Used An Apple To Exchange Baby Panda From Mother | iPanda
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0OjssTdCxo
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7875127/Elephant-carefully-clambers-5ft-wall-attempt-steal-mangoes.html
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=monkey+stealing
monkey stealing
The most common items stolen were things like glasses and hats, but cameras, phones and shoes were fair game as well. "Once or twice, [they stole] a wallet containing a huge stack of bank notes!" said Jean-Baptiste Leca of the University of Lethbridge.
After grabbing their ill-gotten gains, the monkeys wouldn't stray too far from their victims. However, they would refuse to hand anything over until the hapless humans produced some food, at which point the monkeys would happily drop the stolen item in exchange.
monkey kidnap rescue
monkey barter
example animal painting
Accidental self-portrait by an elephant with a GoPro camera in Koh Phangan, Thailand[1]
Animal-made art is art created by an animal. Animal-made works of art have been created by apes, elephants, cetacea, reptiles,[2] and bowerbirds,[3] among other species.
Contents
1 Painting primates
2 Painting elephants
3 Painting dolphins
4 Rabbit painter
5 Copyright issues
6 See also
7 Footnotes
8 External links
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_selfie_copyright_dispute
- humans and animals will throw poo at one another
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=throw+poo
Top 10 animals throwing poop at people (MONKEY THROWS POOP AT GRANDMA) poo throwing monkeys
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ma_LpIcm-Cs
Toronto police investigate 3rd feces-throwing incident
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nj536GZ75Lg
Villagers in India throw COW POO as part of ritual for good health
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqGMdqYM19E
Woman accused of throwing human feces on landlord
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jifrTMAflI
- they can be loyal
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8521203/Loyal-camel-walks-desert-seven-days-former-owners.html
https://www.dw.com/en/monkeys-and-humans-think-more-alike-than-we-knew/a-54183973
- they know when they've been abandoned
Devoted dog couldn’t stop crying at the shelter after he realized that he had been abandoned
Adorable Dog Reaction to owner Crying Smart Dogs Videos
Dogs Crying When He Meets Owner After 2 year, 5 year,10 year separation
Rescue Poor Abandoned Puppy Crying and Shaking in Severe Scared, Sadness.. in Abandoned House
- they can be affectionate (or not)
https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/impatient-pet-cow-moos-farmers-window-morning-hug
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/cow-impatiently-calls-farmers-window-102700790.html
KISSING MY DOG TOO MANY TIMES _ ALASKAN MALAMUTE MALE V FEMALE (cutest reaction)
Giant Attention Seeking Dog! Dad Parenting Multitask Edition!
- some of them engage in prostitution?
primate prostitution
A few studies have suggested that prostitution exists among different species of non-human animals such as Adélie penguins and chimpanzees.[1][2][3] The concept is also known as transactional sex.
The notion of such "transactional sex" among chimpanzees has been critiqued by many scholars, however; androcentric bias and researchers projecting their own gendered assumptions onto non-human animals may play a significant role in interpretations of "prostitution."[4]
Penguins use stones for building their nests. Based on a 1998 study, media reports stated[1] that a shortage of stones led female Adélie penguins[2][5] to trade sex for stones. Some pair-bonded female penguins copulate with males who are not their mates and then take pebbles for their own nests.[1] Chimpanzees who appear to be trading food for sex have also been described as engaging in prostitution.[3]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostitution_among_animals
https://www.zmescience.com/research/how-scientists-tught-monkeys-the-concept-of-money-not-long-after-the-first-prostitute-monkey-appeared/
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/7829159/the-horrifying-story-of-a-prostitute-orangutan-who-was-chained-to-a-bed-shaved-daily-and-forced-to-perform-sex-acts-on-men-twice-her-size/
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/prostitute-orangutan-screamed-defecated-brothel-13652061
Chen’s monkey correlations to human economics attempts go from further back when he was a Harvard graduate, and additionally shows some more interesting facts. He worked there with Marc Hauser, a psychologist, on a project which studied altruism behaviors in monkeys. They chose cotton-top tamarins for this. At first, they put two monkeys in different cages, each with a lever. When the lever was pulled, the neighboring monkey would receive food. If not altruism, it was still a form of cooperation which was put to the test  – the typical tamarin pulled the lever about 40 percent of the time.
The most interesting part comes about at the time when researchers paced the game a bit harder. Now, they instructed a monkey to always pull the lever (mindless altruist), and another to never pull it (ego-monkey). The two were then inserted into the game with other monkeys.
At first, the mindless altruist was pulling the lever every time, never missing a cage for its food, while the other tamarins responded in the same way  50 percent of the time. The other monkeys soon understood, though, that the mindless altruist was just pulling the lever anyway, indifferently of whether it was reciprocated or not – their response dropped to 30 percent of the time. The ego-monkey was exposed to the harshest treatment, as expected – very harshly. “[The other tamarins] would just go nuts,” Chen recalls when she was introduced with all the other. ”They’d throw their feces at the wall, walk into the corner and sit on their hands, kind of sulk.”
When Chen and Santos first started their study, they didn’t have a particular goal in mind. It was just as simple as giving a monkey a dollar and see what would happen, which was exactly the case. Instead of the dollar, however, a silver disc with a hole in its center was employed as a means of currency for the capuchins.
It took several months of repetition for the capuchins to learn that they could exchange such a token for fruit. After they understood this, each monkey was given 12 tokens to decide on how to spend it in her best interest on food valued at different prices.
Researchers observed that the monkeys could very well budget. Researchers then changed the market and put Jell-O at a lower price, to see if monkeys would buy fewer grapes and more Jell-O. They acted exactly like the current laws of economics dictate for humans as well.
They then taught them how to gamble, and saw they made the same irrational decisions a human gambler would make as well. The data generated by the capuchin monkeys, Chen says, ”make them statistically indistinguishable from most stock-market investors.”
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The monkeys were given tokens one at a time by inserting them in a separate chamber from that of their living quarters, but on one occasion everything sprung into chaos when a capuchin tried to make a run for it with a tray filled with tokens and ended up back with all the other monkeys. That was a tough time for researchers.
Something else happened then too — what’s maybe the most evident form of one’s grasp upon currency. The idea is that you can use money as a form of currency to exchange for goods or services, as in not just food. Well, one of the researchers, during the chaos event, observed how one of the monkeys exchanged money to another for sex. After the act was over, the monkey which was paid immediately used it to buy a grape…
There you have it folks, sounds familiar? In almost all aspects, capuchins manage to understand money and use it in a manner not too different from a plain old homo sapiens. The study, titled “How Basic Are Behavioral Biases? Evidence From Capuchin Monkey Trading Behavior“, can be read here.
https://www.zmescience.com/research/how-scientists-tught-monkeys-the-concept-of-money-not-long-after-the-first-prostitute-monkey-appeared/
- if you examine the lives of Pandas, Koalas, and many other animals you'd probably see they are "virtually useless". There's almost no point to their existence? It's difficult to understand why/how they could come to be unless they were lucky to have grown up in an environment without any predators? Given the complexity bio-organic technology and the failure of evolutionary theory to explain a lot of things it makes sense why you would believe in in a Creator/God of some sort?
It might come as a shock to anyone who loves pandas, but these lumbering black and white creatures are not the most practical for the ecosystem. Nothing and nobody eats them, they barely interact with other species and have a hard time reproducing. On a more positive note, they help spread the seeds of the bamboo they spend many hours a day chewing, and have become a public face for conservation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_drive
sleepiest animals
1. Opossum: 18 hours
2. Sloth: 10 hours
3. Armadillo: 19 hours
4. Koala: 19-20 hours
5. Owl Monkey: 17 hours
6. Cats: 15 hours
https://au.koala.com/blog/the-6-sleepiest-and-cutest-animals-in-the-world/
10. Squirrel
Average sleep time: 14.9 hr
Percentage of 24 hours: 62%
9. Tree Shrew
Average sleep time: 15.8 hr
Percentage of 24 hours: 65.8%
8. Tiger
Average sleep time: 15.8 hr
Percentage of 24 hours: 65.8%
7. Human (infant)
Average sleep time: 16 hr
Percentage of 24 hours: 66.7%
6. Night Monkey
Average sleep time: 17 hr
Percentage of 24 hours: 70.8%
4-5. Python
Average sleep time: 18 hr
Percentage of 24 hours: 75%
4-5. North American Opossum
Average sleep time: 18 hr
Percentage of 24 hours: 75%
3. Giant Armadillo
Average sleep time: 18.1 hr
Percentage of 24 hours: 75.4%
2. Brown Bat
Average sleep time: 19.9 hr
Percentage of 24 hours: 82.9%
1. The Longest Sleeping Animal – Koala
Average sleep time: 22 hr
Percentage of 24 hours: 91.7%
http://top10hell.com/top-10-longest-sleeping-animals/
panda routine
Giant pandas spend their lives eating bamboo and walking around the forest floor. They are good climbers and can also swim. They don't build dens (except to put cubs in) or hibernate. They prefer shallow slopes and solitary living.
What is a panda's daily routine?
Panda spends 98 percent of their time eating or sleeping. ... Their daily routine consists of laying around and eating, falling asleep, and waking up and eating some more and defecating up to 50 times a day. When they get up to move on they can leave behind as much as 20 pounds of dropping.
koala routine
Koalas eat 3 hours per day, usually during the nighttime, and rest 16 to 18 hours a day, according to the Adelaide Zoo. They sleep so much because they need time and energy to digest their food. It takes a lot of energy to digest the fibrous leaves of the eucalyptus. Koalas are herbivores who eat only eucalyptus.
https://www.livescience.com/27401-koalas-facts.html
wombat daily habits
Common wombats are solitary animals. However, their home ranges often overlap. There have been known cases of multiple individuals using the same burrow, but at different times. These animals are usually nocturnal and crepuscular. At dusk, when the temperature drops, they come out of their burrows to graze. At the cooler season, they have been observed sunbathing during the daytime hours. When looking for food, Common wombats are able to make long trips of several kilometers, during which they occasionally visit the same sites and create so-called "marsupial lawns" or short patches of grass. A wombat can use a number of resting chambers, where it constructs its nest as well as sleeps up to 16 hours per day in order to save energy. Wombat nests are made out of leaves, grass and sticks. Common wombats are not territorial in their sleeping chambers. However, when it comes to their feeding areas, these animals are highly territorial, defending their territories by scent marking.
http://animalia.bio/common-wombat
https://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/topics/animals-and-plants/native-animals/native-animal-facts/wombats
https://panique.com.au/trishansoz/animals/wombat.html
blobfish
https://australianmuseum.net.au/learn/animals/fishes/fathead-psychrolutes-aka-mr-blobby/
- some enjoy music, dancing, smoking cigarettes, or getting drunk when given the opportunity?
https://www.newsweek.com/chimp-throw-rocks-trees-communication-1477637
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/12/chimps-create-rock-music-throwing-stones-trees
Chimps like to dance to music - especially male primates, a Japanese study has found.
Scientists found that chimpanzees moved to the rhythm of the music by swaying, clapping and tapping their feet.
The results also showed that male chimps were more likely to respond to the music by being more vocal and swaying for longer periods than the females.
...
In a separate study from the US, scientists found that chimps share and teach each other about tools so they can do complex tasks such as hunting for food, in a similar way to humans.
The researchers, publishing their work in the same journal, said that: “the capacity for helping in chimpanzees may be both more robust and more flexible than previously appreciated."
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/12/23/chimps-love-boogie-accord-japanese-study/
“Chimpanzees dance to some extent in the same way as humans,” said Yuko Hattori, a researcher at Kyoto University who studied the dancing chimps. Most of the apes swayed their bodies, though claps and foot taps featured too, primarily among the females.
While dance has a rich and ancient history in humans, it is considered all but absent in non-human primates. The most similar behaviour seen in the wild are chimpanzees’ “rain dances” and waterfall displays. This month, researchers at Warwick University reported chimps in Saint Louis Zoological Park in Missouri moving in what looked uncannily like a conga, but the apes had no musical accompaniment.
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While the chimps chased each other around and wrestled more after dancing, Hattori assured the Guardian that they did not continue the party when they returned to the troop in the main enclosure. “They did not dance together,” she said.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/dec/23/cha-cha-chimp-ape-study-suggests-urge-to-dance-is-prehuman
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/jul/08/cockatoo-choreographs-his-own-dance-moves-researchers-believe
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=chimp+smoking
Tori the Smoking Orangutan to be Sent to Rehab
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzYaN9YcG2s
Smoking orangutan to be sent to 'rehab' on Indonesian island
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQDcuSGCX7o
Chain-Smoking Chimp
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29j9DaUEQmM
The Smoking Chimp
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAmQUp-JZ7c
Meet Azalea The Smoking Chimp, Star At North Korea Zoo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYFqXN_JVYc
http://www.stuff.co.nz/travel/news/85651284/north-koreas-newest-zoo-attraction-is-a-chimpanzee-trained-to-smoke-cigarettes
http://www.storypick.com/smoking-chimp/
http://www.seeker.com/smoking-chimp-from-iraq-finds-refuge-in-kenya-2137811194.html
http://blogs.abcnews.com/theworldnewser/2010/03/alcoholic-russian-chimp-off-to-rehab.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/26/zhora-russian-chimp-goes_n_478506.html
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=chimp+smoking
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Drunken+raccoon
https://www.dw.com/en/drunken-raccoon-staggers-through-german-christmas-market-passes-out/a-51579948
do primates take drugs
Tales of the tipsy pachyderms go back at least two centuries. In the 1830s, a French naturalist called Adulphe Delegorgue described stories from his Zulu guides of mysteriously aggressive behaviour in male elephants after they fed on the marula fruits. "The elephant has in common with man a predilection for a gentle warming of the brain induced by fruit which has been fermented by the action of the sun," wrote Delegorgue.
Elephants aren't the only critters accused of indulging in the occasional cocktail or dose of drugs. Tales are told of wallabies getting high on poppy plants in Australia or dogs reportedly becoming addicted to the toxic substance secreted by cane toads. And stories abound of vervet monkeys on the Carribean island of St. Kitts, sneakily imbibing the brightly coloured cocktails of distracted tourists.
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20140528-do-animals-take-drugs
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/1366329/Apes-were-first-to-get-high-on-drugs.html
https://theconversation.com/how-other-primates-self-medicate-and-what-they-could-teach-us-59869
https://www.youtube.com/user/2009yamto/videos
- many of them have a sense of humor and enjoy a laugh?
GORILLAS PRANKING HUMANS () [Funny Pets]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaEfmypLwdM
Making a chimp laugh _ Animals in Love - BBC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhlHx5ivGGk
-  some are really lazy
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=lazy+dog
Lazy Dogs Doing Funny Action - TRY NOT TO LAUGH with Dog's Life
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqbZl6bswpo
Lazy Dogs - Funny And Hilarious Lazy Dogs!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEMvxdX_eAw
Try Not To Laugh Funny Dog Videos Compilation - Lazy Dogs Don't Want To Go Home Back
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yosdc4y_Uqo
- they will mimic humans (much like human babies and toddlers do)?
Why a park ranger’s selfie with two gorillas went viral
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aT0Hc_L16L8
- some of them may be interested in driving cars?
https://abc7news.com/pets-animals/chihuahua-causes-crash-after-putting-car-into-reverse/5715261/
https://metro.co.uk/2019/11/22/labrador-left-alone-in-car-drives-around-in-circles-11202715/
chimp driving car
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3687900/Chimp-ride-Funny-video-shows-ape-taking-wheel-shows-new-motor.html
http://www.bouncinghedgehog.com/2009/12/03/chimpanzee-caught-driving-in-florida/
Late in 1963, Zappone was monitoring local police frequencies and overheard a Florida Highway Patrolman requesting a sergeant after he pulled over a chimpanzee driving a compact convertible for speeding on Interstate 4 just east of Tampa.[3] He rushed to grab a ride with another newsman, WTVT TV reporter Steve Wilson, and arrived in time to photograph the lawman issuing the chimp, named "Cappy," a citation for speeding, reckless driving and having no driver's license.[4] Robert Slover, owner of then Tampa-based Southern Amusement Enterprises, a traveling carnival featuring the driving "Cappy," had installed a separate brake on the passenger's side of the vehicle and was present at the time the citation was given. The highway patrolman on the scene advised his superiors there was only one steering wheel and it was in front of the chimpanzee.
Subsequently, charges against "Cappy" the chimp were dropped after a Hillsborough County judge ruled no infraction had occurred because at that time there was no requirement in Florida law that chimpanzees have licenses to drive. Zappone was later commissioned by NBC Productions, Inc. to shoot film footage of Cappy driving around the Tampa area for later use on that network's The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. During the shoot, Zappone was injured when the animal bit unrelentingly into his right hand during a stop at a downtown Tampa intersection and refused to let go until the light turned green 30 seconds later.
During a session of the Florida Legislature, convened the following year, a law was passed prohibiting non-humans from operating mechanical vehicles on all streets and highways within the entire state. The law did not provide for drivers' licenses for any type of animals.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Zappone
- many of them probably don't want to be locked up or experimented on? They don't like to be manipulated? Notion of animal consent?
Golus made her mark as an undergraduate student in the Student Summer Scholar program studying carnivores such as lions and bears at the John Ball Zoo in Grand Rapids. She observed the animals' enrichment protocols, which are stimulating activities meant to suppress negative animal behaviors.
https://www.pressreleasepoint.com/biology-graduate-students-research-genetics-chimpanzees-captivity-called-ahead-curve-thinking
https://nypost.com/2020/02/08/former-research-chimps-rejoice-at-being-set-free-for-the-first-time/
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=zoo+animal+depression
https://www.independent.co.uk/News/science/dogs-wolves-unfairness-acceptance-human-owners-pets-behaviour-research-vienna-a7779076.html
The documentary concerns the captivity of Tilikum, an orca involved in the deaths of three people, and the consequences of keeping orcas in captivity.[5] The coverage of Tilikum includes his capture in 1983 off the coast of Iceland and his purported harassment by fellow captive orcas at Sealand of the Pacific. Cowperthwaite argues these incidents contributed to the orca's aggression.
The film includes a testimonial from Lori Marino, director of science with the Nonhuman Rights Project. Cowperthwaite also focuses on SeaWorld's claims that lifespans of orcas in captivity are comparable to those in the wild,[6] typically 30 years for males and 50 years for females,[7] a claim the film argues is false.[8] Other people interviewed include former SeaWorld trainers, such as John Hargrove, who describe their experiences with Tilikum and other captive whales.
The documentary reports that the whales have experienced extreme stress when their offspring were captured in the wild or when separated after breeding at water parks. The film features footage of attacks on trainers by Tilikum and other captive whales as well as interviews with witnesses.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackfish_(film)
animals run away statistics
zoo animal escape
zoo animal escape frequency
Udderly shocking! Moment clever cow unhooks an electric fence with her teeth - and avoids getting zapped
Herdsman Wylie Wood filmed his cattle on the farm in Hartland, Vermont 
One cow grabbed a rubber insulator sleeve allowing it to open the electric fence
Wood claimed he had never seen a cow manage to bypass an electric fence 
The rubber sleeve allows farmers to open a fence without suffering a shock
- that said, there are some animals that clearly prefer to be looked after and not live in the wild
https://orangutanjungleschool.com/beni/
- you have to wonder whether or not responsible animals could/should be allowed to roam amongst humans especially if they're unhappy under captivity, as someone's pet, and going to the wild isn't really a genuine option (we know that semi-wild/domesticated birds, monkeys, moose, cows, etc... are able to live with humans)? Sometimes, it feels as though animals just need a bit of education sometimes?
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-12-30/desexing-dogs-is-not-always-the-best-thing-to-do/11814796
https://www.news.com.au/technology/science/animals/how-goats-saved-ronald-reagan-library-from-los-angeles-wildfires/news-story/eb9783e1240ac02913cbb2e4dcd72e84
https://www.lifehacker.com.au/2019/12/5-brain-games-you-can-play-with-your-dog/
https://www.nationalgeographic.com.au/animals/are-you-a-cat-whisperer-a-few-special-people-can-read-feline-expressions.aspx
https://catdogwelfare.wixsite.com/catfaces/cat-faces-interactive-quiz
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/not-blanky-panda-doesnt-want-151213634.html
monkey buddhist temple
- what's obvious is me is that it's pointless having particular animal behaviour (whether innate of conditioned) if they are as primitive as some people would choose to make us believe?
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/a-67-year-old-woman-has-become-china-s-oldest-new-mother
- they seem to experience many human emotions and feelings and seem to have a governing structure/societies? Much like many former indigineous societies they may simply be less advanced?
- they migrate towards food which means that they know what their food source looks like, may know where to find more of it, understand navigation, have some sort of critical thinking, have decent memories, etc?
Amidst the stringent laws of nature, exist certain miracles that have the ower to confound us beyond measure. One of these wondrous creations is the swimming camels of Kutch. Residing in the diverse land of Kutch, the Kharai breed of camels is one-of-a-kind. These animals swim over 3 kilometres to the islands off the coast of Kutch, where they feed on lush mangroves over a 3-4 day long stay. They then swim all the way back, with their herders in tow, to the vast desert that is their home.
Not only are these camels capable of swimming, but they are also able to survive on saltwater — which is where the name ‘Kharai’ comes from. The world’s only swimming camels, the Kharai were bred by the thousands by the Rabari and Jat community of camel herders. These two communities believe that Kharai camels originated from the sea. This is why they have dedicated their lives to the health and well being of the magnificent animals.
https://www.deccanherald.com/opinion/panorama/saving-the-swimming-camels-790897.html
Good boy licks his way to freedom
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQeUomBKc_w
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/small-town-residents-win-fight-to-allow-mob-of-20-emus-to-keep-roaming-the-streets-after-authorities-wanted-to-kick-them-out/ar-BBYXOVr?li=AAgfIYZ
https://au.news.yahoo.com/tragic-story-behind-photo-of-orangutan-clinging-to-branches-220015610.html
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-11-01/kangaroos-digging-for-water/11654984
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=chimp+memory+test
animal migrate towards food
Some animals travel relatively short distances to find food or more favorable living or breeding conditions.Most animals that migrate do so to find food or more livable conditions. ... Frogs and toads often move very short distances to breeding ponds and lakes to lay their eggs.
- there are some free courses of animal psychology out there but not as many as I'd like
animal psychology certificate free
https://online.duke.edu/course/dog-emotion-cognition/
- they get lonely. Some are are able to differentiate between live and inanimate objects
Ponso The 'World's Loneliest Chimp' Befriends Chimp Expert Estelle Raballand  _ Dodo Heroes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIUERvpLtoE
Will Ponso The Loneliest Chimp In The World Fnally Get A Friend And A New Home
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=098Q_j7lq5U
Ponso the Chimpanzee, at Grand Lahou, Cote d'Ivoire
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HY9P1mTw7bE
Ponso gets a stuffed animal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mO6qUrdKf3k
- they seem to understand if/when you're trying to help them and when they're being experimented on?
Chen Chen Plays With Babies After Receiving A Head Injury _ Orangutan Island
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNtypScB8L0
EPIC ORANGUTAN RELEASE!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFHPUHqtf5c
The Real Planet of the Apes (Documentary)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69LDbyl4Xjs
Chimp Test Pilots _ Aeromedical & Bioastronautics Research _ USAF Documentary _ 1967https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-GXQzPZbsM
Save the Chimps is a Sanctuary for Air Force and Other Chimpanzees
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwQXe9RLcEQ
NASA's First Trained Astronaut in Space
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ya_1-8VzJlI
- like humans they often have very different personalities. They effectively have home schooling in the wild. This place is being taken up by sanctuaries (created by humans) now
https://gizmodo.com/these-birds-learned-to-avoid-yucky-food-by-watching-vid-1841817791
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=orangutan+school
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=chimp+school
How Caretakers Teach Orangutans to Fear Snakes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vUM8qFX1fs
Taking The Next Step Towards Releasing Orangutans Into The Wild _ Orangutan Island
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoTeQcsO8QM
https://www.youtube.com/user/ThePurpleKharma/videos
https://www.youtube.com/user/gorilladoctors/videos
https://www.youtube.com/user/smithsonianchannel/videos
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=baby+orangutan+borneo
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=baby+orangutan+hug
- they have parenting issues
https://indianexpress.com/article/trending/trending-globally/baby-gorilla-urges-father-to-play-fort-worth-zoo-6543952/
https://www.msn.com/en-us/video/animals/young-gorilla-at-fort-worth-zoo-really-wants-to-play-with-his-dad-but-dad-s-not-having-it/vi-BB17FdQw
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/12376830/baby-chimp-djibril-cuddle-soft-toy/
- there are examples of anti-social primate and animal behaviour in the wild?
primates jail one another
The thief threatened children with bricks and ripped the buttons off shirts. He stole tomatoes from one home and snatched bread from another. Down the street, he briefly fled with a differential equations book and beat a calculator with his fist.
He was one bad monkey. And last week he was sentenced to life in prison for his crimes, inmate No. 13 at the country's only known monkey jail, where very bad monkeys are sent to live out their remaining years.
"He used to eat our guavas," Bhagwanti Devi said. "He would throw stones and try to hit us. Until we gave him flat bread, he wouldn't leave."
This jail is Punjab state's answer to the monkey menace in India, where killing monkeys is forbidden. Hindus consider monkeys sacred, living representatives of the monkey god Hanuman. Thousands of temples are dedicated to Hanuman, and many people feed monkeys in the hopes of divine rewards.
Monkeys have invaded government ministries in New Delhi, ridden elevators and climbed along windowsills. Monkeys slapped students inside a girls' school in a south Bengal suburb. A gang of monkeys in the city of Chandigarh ripped up lawns, broke flowerpots and yanked sheets off beds.
Some monkeys, mostly loners, have bitten people, injuring and even killing small children.
"Monkeys are very furious," said Ujagar Singh, the Patiala district spokesman. "They are dangerous animals."
Officials have tried many tactics to fight the monkeys, mostly of the pink-faced rhesus variety. They have told people to stop feeding the animals. They have given monkeys an herbal contraceptive mixed in with cashew nuts. Hundreds of troublesome monkeys have been sent to wildlife sanctuaries. Last fall, the Supreme Court even decreed that New Delhi should be monkey-free.
But nothing has really worked, not the court order, not loud music, not patrols of government buildings by leashed larger primates called langurs. Every few months, news of a fresh monkey panic is reported somewhere in India. Occasionally, people get fed up. Late last month, 59 dead monkeys were found, dumped in sacks along the road in Haryana state.
The monkey jail in Patiala, north of New Delhi in the Punjab state, is in a corner of the Motibagh Bir Zoological Park. In this vast country, someone else might have opened a monkey jail, but if so, officials do not know about it.
The Patiala jail is more like a single cell, about 15 feet wide, 15 feet deep and 12 feet high, with bars, chain-link fencing and wire mesh. A sign in front says: "These monkeys have been caught from various cities of Punjab. They are notorious. Going near them is dangerous."
None of these monkeys killed anyone. They're all basically thieves and pests. The first inmate was arrested in 1996, in the village of Sanam, after biting people as they shopped in a vegetable market.
Other monkeys stole clothes from nursing students and purses from women in an education administration office. One monkey stalked a housing complex in the Jalandhar district, stealing kids' lunchboxes and opening up water tanks, where he drank the water and bathed. Two monkeys were picked up from the chief minister's house, basically for loitering.
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She said monkeys can be rehabilitated, taught in sanctuaries to live in groups and eventually released into the forest.
"You can't treat them in the same way as humans, as bad and good," she said. "You can't just jail them."
The newest inmate at Patiala, trapped in a cage on Monday, is called Ayurvedic College Monkey, named after the healing-arts school near where it was captured. On Sept. 7, a local newspaper ran a photograph of the monkey, crouching in front of his captors. The caption proclaimed: "Team of forest and wildlife officials catching a hold of a terrorist monkey."
The next day, Ayurvedic College Monkey sat in his isolation cell, baring his few teeth and threatening to throw a bucket of water on anyone who came near.
In the neighborhood where he once roamed, people remembered him with a mixture of fear and fondness. Sure, he threatened the children with bricks, but he also was cute, people said. He was older, missing most of his teeth. His partner, who escaped, was the really scary monkey, they said.
At Baljeet Kaur's house, when the monkey demanded food, it was given cut apples and peeled bananas. Kaur, once bitten by a monkey, said she was happy this monkey was gone. But she also said she had no idea that it would spend its life behind bars.
"They told us they would keep him in the forest, with the other monkeys," she said. "They didn't tell us they would keep him in jail."
IN INDIA, BAD PRIMATES SPEND LIVES AS INMATES
https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-xpm-2004-09-17-0409161506-story.html
- many animals seem to have a lot of the same illnesses and problems that humans do (with similar treatments as well) which explains why they're the subject of such heavy experimentation?
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=monkey+experiment
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=chimp+ptsd
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=orangutan+trauma
Rescued Chimp Won't Stop Holding Hands With New Friend
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDaak7iymRo
Rescued Chimp's Dolls Make Her Feel Safe - FOXIE _ The Dodo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8m7xc1QZuTU
Chimp Rescued From Distressing Conditions Thanks Her Savior With A Powerful Gesture
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwxX2bZmzyc
Rescuing A Frightened Baby Orangutan Trapped In A Hunter's Home _ Orangutan Island
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tXlA7TvvSQ
Traumatised baby orangutan is saved from a palm oil plantation in Indonesia after his mother was 'ki
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4l8l6tmkeuc
Orangutan Pre-School - Traumatised Baby Ape On Road To Recovery
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9rk8WtFG_M
https://www.youtube.com/user/redapes/videos
animal suicide
Animal suicide refers to any kind of self-destructive behavior displayed by various species of animals, resulting in their death. Although contradicting the natural progression of life and an animal's evolutionary instinct for survival, some situations may lead to an animal inducing their own death. Animal suicide in the defense of the group could be instantaneous or altruistic self-removal once an animal becomes diseased.[1] There are anecdotal reports of grieving pets displaying such behaviour after the death of their owner, or monogamous animals refusing to feed after the death of their mate.
Some parasites manipulate the behavior of their host, causing them to expose themselves to greater risks of predation to enable the parasite to proceed to the next life-cycle stage. Some carpenter ants and termites use autothysis, producing a sticky secretion to trap colony marauders, and pea aphids will sometimes explode, protecting other pea aphids from ladybugs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_suicide
http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20160705-many-animals-seem-to-kill-themselves-but-it-is-not-suicide
monkey schizophrenia
Prefrontal dysfunction and a monkey model of schizophrenia
Many of us have known a dog on Prozac. We've also witnessed the eye rolls that come with canine psychiatry. Doting pet owners—myself included—ascribe all sorts of questionable psychological ills to our pawed companions. But the science does suggest that numerous non-human species suffer from psychiatric symptoms. Birds obsess; horses on occasion get pathologically compulsive; dolphins and whales—especially those in captivity—self-mutilate. And that thing when your dog woefully watches you pull out of the driveway from the window—that might be DSM-certified separation anxiety. "Every animal with a mind has the capacity to lose hold of it from time to time" wrote science historian and author Dr. Laurel Braitman in "Animal Madness."
But there’s at least one mental malady that, while common in humans, seems to have spared all other animals: schizophrenia. Though psychotic animals may exist, psychosis has never been observed outside of our own species; whereas depression, OCD, and anxiety traits have been reported in many non-human species. This begs the question of why such a potentially devastating, often lethal disease—which we now know is heavily genetic, thanks to some genomically homogenous Icelanders and plenty of other recent research—is still hanging around when it would seem that genes predisposing to psychosis would have been strongly selected against. A new study provides clues into how the potential for schizophrenia may have arisen in the human brain and, in doing so, suggests possible treatment targets. It turns out psychosis may be an unfortunate cost of our big brains—of higher, complex cognition. 
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Every elephant is special. And when you know a blind elephant is restless in his/her day-to-day life -- but stops still, is calm when listening to music -- it feels quite special.
- given the intellect of many animals it makes sense that some would choose to place them on a higher level? It makes sense that many would be torn on the issue of animal rights
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ptsd abattoir
Slaughterhouse work has been linked to a variety of disorders, including post-traumatic stress disorder and the lesser-known perpetration-induced traumatic stress. It has also been connected to higher incidents of domestic violence, as well as alcohol and drug abuse. A pig slaughterer said the “worst thing” about the work is its “emotional toll”. He explained: “Pigs down on the kill floor have come up and nuzzled me like a puppy. Two minutes later I had to kill them – beat them to death with a pipe.” A worker at a chicken plant said one of his colleagues was “hauled off to the mental hospital” after he “kept having nightmares that chickens were after him”.
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Frontline employees in this multibillion-pound industry are often paid the minimum wage. Vulnerable animals are often slaughtered by some of society’s most vulnerable humans. Most people don’t like to think about the effect that buying meat has on animals and the environment. Few are even aware of the plight of slaughter workers. But market forces are simple – every time you put meat in your shopping trolley, you are funding the slaughter, globally, of 70bn farmed animals each year, the destruction of the environment and yes, the exploitation of vulnerable workers.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/nov/19/christmas-crisis-kill-dinner-work-abattoir-industry-psychological-physical-damage
https://metro.co.uk/2017/12/31/how-killing-animals-everyday-leaves-slaughterhouse-workers-traumatised-7175087/
Working at slaughterhouses often leads to a high amount of psychological trauma.[33][34] A 2016 study in Organization indicates, "Regression analyses of data from 10,605 Danish workers across 44 occupations suggest that slaughterhouse workers consistently experience lower physical and psychological well-being along with increased incidences of negative coping behavior."[35] In her thesis submitted to and approved by University of Colorado, Anna Dorovskikh states that slaughterhouse workers are "at risk of Perpetration-Inducted Traumatic Stress, which is a form of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and results from situations where the concerning subject suffering from PTSD was a causal participant in creating the traumatic situation."[36] A 2009 study by criminologist Amy Fitzgerald indicates, "slaughterhouse employment increases total arrest rates, arrests for violent crimes, arrests for rape, and arrests for other sex offenses in comparison with other industries."[37] As authors from the PTSD Journal explain, "These employees are hired to kill animals, such as pigs and cows that are largely gentle creatures. Carrying out this action requires workers to disconnect from what they are doing and from the creature standing before them. This emotional dissonance can lead to consequences such as domestic violence, social withdrawal, anxiety, drug and alcohol abuse, and PTSD."[38]
Slaughterhouses in the United States commonly illegally employ and exploit underage workers and illegal immigrants.[39][40] In 2010, Human Rights Watch described slaughterhouse line work in the United States as a human rights crime.[41] In a report by Oxfam America, slaughterhouse workers were observed not being allowed breaks, were often required to wear diapers, and were paid below minimum wage.[42]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slaughterhouse

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- "The Commonwealth has used a single, inadequate piece of data — the robodebt algorithm — and used it to seize money and penalise hundreds of thousands of people," he said

"We'll allege that to simply collect money from hundreds of thousands of people by the simplistic application of an imperfect computer algorithm is wrong.

"We think that before the Government docked the pensions or took the tax refunds of widows and carers and aged pensioners it needed to have better evidence, it needed to consider each case individually."

Mr Gordon said up to 160,000 errors could be blamed on robodebt, and the legal action would seek both repayment of falsely claimed debts and compensation for affected people.

He said the system had unlawfully taken tens of millions of dollars from Australians, and he was "comfortably satisfied" the suit met the requirements of a class action.

"Not every case needs to be exactly the same. They only have to be roughly similar," he said.

Mr Shorten said he believed the robodebt billing practices were "verging on extortion".

Human Services Minister Stuart Robert has been contacted for comment.
- After all these decades of growth, the military-industrial-congressional complex is strong indeed. It’s not, however, omnipotent — not yet anyway. Its Achilles’ heel is funding. If Americans were, Proxmire-style, to start holding the weapons makers and the Pentagon accountable for their messes and mayhem in a language they understood — money — change might be possible. If, however, we continue to equate such deadly and staggeringly costly weaponry with safety and security, if that money continues to flow prodigiously to the Pentagon, the weapons makers, and their camp followers, you can count on two things: America’s forever wars will keep on churning and F-35s will soon roar loudly over a stadium near you.

One of these days, look for those same planes to be soaring in the skies over various unfortunate countries, dropping “Made in America” calling cards on their people. Just don’t look for them striking at cancer or climate change or solving any of the actual problems we face on this planet.
- "DULLES, Va., Sept. 16, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- A Raytheon Company team recently conducted a rapid set up demonstration of a land-based expeditionary version of its Joint Precision Approach and Landing System to a group of global military officials at Naval Air Station Patuxent River, MD. JPALS is a GPS-based precision landing system that guides aircraft to precision landings in all weather and surfaces conditions. 

"The entire system was fully operational in 70 minutes on Day One and 50 minutes on Day Two," said Matt Gilligan, vice president at Raytheon's Intelligence, Information and Services business. "Raytheon is offering the U.S. and its allies fast and accurate precision landing systems that support operations from bare-base locations." 

During the demonstration, military officials from all four services, as well as representatives from Japan, United Kingdom, The Netherlands, and Italy, watched multiple F-35Cs land on the same designated runway landing point every time over the course of six different approaches.

This was the second proof-of-concept event in 2019 showing how F-35s can use a reconfigured mobile version of JPALS to support landings in austere environments...."
- No we do not have enough to do it. We had 32, two have been lost (1 was repairable). That leaves 30, the E-3 goes to depot every 48 months, if we are generous they have 23 potentially available. Four are in PACAF leaving 19 for all other missions. 

Now make a list of places that would need coverage... DC/Pentagon, NY, etc, plus deployments to the middle east. You need 3 air frames ideally for each location. If the AWACS fleet was at 100% mission capable we have enough sir frames for 6 orbits and one spare. The USAF planners have been dreaming of a space based radar system to provide world wide 24/7 coverage since the 1980's (if not earlier) for a reason. With the USNs 40 ish Hawk-eye fleet taking part of the load, you lesson the load. 

These are specialized and expensive aircraft, like the Rivet Joints. We will never have enough to do that kind of mission for a prolonged time. After Sept 11th, we had NATO E-3s in the US assisting in providing air coverage. 
- Calculating the insects' top speeds, Pfeffer and Wahl were impressed to find the animals hit an extraordinary 0.855m/s (that is, 855mm/s or 108 times their own body length per second) during the hottest part of the desert day, falling to 0.057m/s at 10°C in the lab. In contrast, larger Cataglyphis fortis only get up to 0.62m/s (only 50body lengths/s), making C. bombycina the world's fastest ant and placing them close to the top of the list of world record-breaking creatures, alongside Australian tiger beetles (171body lengths/s) and California coastal mites (377body lengths/s).
- "Nobody wants their feeds to feel like one big ad and so, I get why there is a hesitancy [about being transparent with posts]. At the end of the day, if you're not being transparent with your followers, you'll lose trust over time," Ms Dash said.
- The Coalition Government has US$35 billion to spend on F-35 jet fighters. It has $90 billion to spend on submarines. It has $150 million to toss out to make US President Donald Trump happy, as a contribution to some space program. But there is no money for decent broadband that would enable people in all corners of the country to think of businesses that could be run remotely.
- "It has always been claimed that Poland suffered the most from the Germans," said Wozniczka, who teaches at the Silesian University. But it's not that simple, he added. The generation of Poles who could remember the division [under various European empires until 1918] saw not Germany but Russia as their worst enemy, the historian argues. "Czarist rule, quashed uprisings, exile in Siberia — the September 17 invasion brought all the memories back." It soon became clear that the Germans also posed a deadly threat this time. But while the Nazi occupation ended at some point, Stalin's legacy continues to this day.

The Polish people still mistrust Russia, and relations between the neighbors are burdened by more than just the 1939 invasion. People have not yet come to terms with the 1940 mass executions of thousands of Polish officers and other officials by the Soviet NKVD secret police in what is known as the Katyn massacre. This was denied by the Soviets well into the Gorbachev era of the 90s. In 2009, then-Prime Minister Vladimir Putin unexpectedly called the Katyn murders a crime during a commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the start of WWII and suggested Russia and Poland deal with it together.
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