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Chimp Outsmarts Tube
Researchers at the Max Planck Institute in Germany capture a chimpanzee's ingenious efforts to get unreachable peanuts out of a tube.
Feb 29, 2008 4:06 AM
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Its the same as that old folk story about the bird who cant reach the water at the bottom of a jug so he keeps dropping small stones into it until the water level rises.
By: shadowbot
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Why do I think of Noam Chompsky? Something like inherited knowledge, or at least physiologically-dependant intelligence. The monkey seemed already to KNOW what to do. All kinds of philosophical questions. Are all men created equal?
By: RabidMadness
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Not a monkey. Chimpanzees are a member of the great apes. Far different.
As for this clip? Necessity is the mother of. Well, you know.
As for this clip? Necessity is the mother of. Well, you know.
By: spam_vigilante
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Okay, be honest: How many of you thought: "Smash the glass tube!" Bad aggressive species, bad!
By: azuray
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I thought of the solution before he solved it, but I didn't feel like having wet nuts.
By: scleve
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You may have won this round chimp. But let's see you build your own website. milkandbananas.com
By: rickhatman1984
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I keep thinking.... What if there were TWO peanuts, and the Chimp offered the other one to me. Would I eat it, knowing how he got them both out of the tube?
By: OregonMike
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That looks like a trained chimpanzee. I would'nt be suprised if it took three days or more to learn that trick.
By: haffee
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I would have peed in the tube... so I guess the chimp still wins.
By: athomascrawley
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Honestly that was my first thought too because you cant see any water dish or anything in the picture. I wonder if that was intentional just to make you feel stupid, because im sure that if they showed water right next to the tube it would be an automatic response for almost anyone. Lets see how that chimp gets something that doesnt float out of that tube.
By: shadowbot
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I thought of peeing into the tube the moment I saw the opening frame. But I guess I'm trained ape too. Seeing a chimpanzee on an internet video always makes me think of pee.
By: loqi
