Posted on 06/03/2015 12:54:06 PM PDT by Red Badger
They're not likely to start barbecuing in the rainforest, but chimpanzees can understand the concept of cooking and are willing to postpone eating raw food, even carrying food some distance to cook it rather than eat immediately, scientists reported on Tuesday.
The findings, based on nine experiments conducted at the Tchimpounga Sanctuary in Republic of Congo and published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, suggest that chimps have all the brainpower needed to cook, including planning, causal understanding, and ability to postpone gratification.
They do lack the ability to produce fire. But if they were given a source of heat, chimps "might be quite able to manipulate (it) to cook," said developmental psychologist Felix Warneken of Harvard University, who conducted the study with Alexandra Rosati.
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If chimps have the cognitive skills to cook, australopithecines likely did, too, said Wrangham, who was not involved in the study: "It suggests that with a little extra brainpower, australopithecines could indeed have found a way to use fire to cook food."
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Some of the experiments confirmed studies by other scientists, such as that chimps prefer seared sweet potatoes to raw. But those tests did not test whether chimps have the mental chops to cook.
Other tests did. For instance, the scientists presented chimps with two containers. One yielded cooked food through a false bottom, not actually cooking, and one did not.
The chimps learned that one transforms potatoes from raw to cooked. Given a choice of which device to put food in, they almost always opted for the "cooker," showing they understood and willingly waited for the raw-to-cooked transformation.
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Whatever you do, don’t call the Chef a ‘Monkey’..................
Funny, I was just wondering how the chimps would respond to a Moochele school lunch meal, and I think you nailed it.
I remember a trip to “The Monkey Jungle” when I was young in Miami. There was a sign at the chimp exhibit which said, “Throw chimps a peanut and they will clap for you”. When you did, all they’d do in return was fart and throw their feces back at the crowd.
Maybe that’s intelligence of some sort.
Thats oil.
OK as long as they can tell the difference between ‘rare’ and ‘medium’ when cooking steaks. A local ‘national’ steak house apparently does not...............
I believe it. I’ve seen The Cooking Channel.
My chimp uses the phone to order take out.
They do lack the ability to produce fire.
So, then... ...chimps DO NOT have all the brainpower needed to cook.
The people who decided what the experiments "suggested" are delusional, stupid, liars, or some combination of all three.
When I see chimps in the wild start cooking the chimp they just killed in a fight...
I’d be impressed...
I can’t decide if its sexist, racist, speciesist, or just hateful and bigoted.
But clearly you are guilty of SOME offense against polite society.
+1
That’s okay. I don’t drive a Toyota...
Now THAT’S brainpower!
Minimum wage would still go up and chimps would get to vote.
I went there in the summer of 1969, I won a trip with a group of other paper boys in Birmingham, AL, for getting the most new customers!....We stayed in The Fountainbleu.........
I like to drop a shot glass full of Jaegermeister into a mug of dark beer. Tastes great with a medium/full-bodied madura wrapped cigar.
They’re very good steamed over salt water in the microwave, then drizzled with olive oil and roasted in a regular oven with dried cranberries, a bit of garlic and parmesan.
Sounds weird, but they’re tasty that way and it’s a good side with Thanksgiving turkey.
Would go great with a dark German beer! I’ll have to try it!...............
You’ve got competition...
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