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(The Case Against $15 Minimum Wage) Study: Apes Could Make Competent Bartenders
The Spirits Business ^ | 15 August 2016 | Nicola Carruthers

Posted on 08/15/2016 3:35:40 PM PDT by DogByte6RER

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Study: Apes Could Make Competent Bartenders

An ape in Sweden has demonstrated human-level flavour prediction abilities by memorising cocktail ingredients, according to a recent study.

By providing a captive orangutan with its own personal cocktail bar, a group of researchers found that large primates exhibit a type of taste memory thought to be unique to humans.

In a new study published in the Animal Cognition journal, researchers at Lund University in Sweden offered Naong, a male orangutan at a Swedish Zoo, three distinct tasting juices – cherry, rhubarb and lemon – as well as cider apple vinegar.

Each in a small bottle on a table adjacent to his cage, Naong accessed the juices using a straw. He learned their flavours, and also the flavour of every possible pairing of the liquids mixed for him by a personal bartender.

The researchers found that Naong not only remembered the flavour of each combination, but could predict whether combinations he had never tasted before would taste pleasant.

Gabriela-Alina Sauciuc of Lund University told New Scientist: “It has been considered that only humans can [make predictions in this way], but we challenged this and showed that an orangutan was able to predict whether never-before-experienced mixes would taste good or bad, and that he could do this as well as 10 human ‘control’ subjects.”

To ensure that it wasn’t colour he preferred, the researchers repeated the experiment using dyes to alter the natural colour of each juice, but it was still the taste rather than the colour that he chose.

Naong stuck with his favourites 88% of the time when offered them in three further rounds of trials.

The study illustrates that it is not just humans who can use prior experiences to predict what will happen in new situations, a ability called “affective forecasting”.

In 2014, researchers at Santa Fe College discovered that chimps and gorillas first developed a taste for alcohol more than 10 million years ago.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: apes; bartender; beerandwine; booze; cheers; liquor; minimumwage; mixology; monkeybusiness; orangutan; planetoftheapes; weird
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Dr. Zaius reading newspaper photo apes5_zpsrgnnpcxn.jpg "The Forbidden Zone was once a paradise. Your SEIU made a desert of it, ages ago."
1 posted on 08/15/2016 3:35:41 PM PDT by DogByte6RER
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Wanda: Oh, right! To call you stupid would be an insult to stupid people! I’ve known sheep that could outwit you. I’ve worn dresses with higher IQs. But you think you’re an intellectual, don’t you, ape?
Otto West: Apes don’t read philosophy.
Wanda: Yes they do, Otto. They just don’t understand it.


2 posted on 08/15/2016 3:37:13 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: DogByte6RER

Harambe memes in 3-2-1....


3 posted on 08/15/2016 3:46:03 PM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: DogByte6RER

They’re also wonderful bouncers.


4 posted on 08/15/2016 3:51:07 PM PDT by Buttons12
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“a group of researchers found that large primates exhibit a type of taste memory thought to be unique to humans.”

It seems pets and other large animals have this - they tend to like certain things and know to avoid certain things that may harm them.

I don’t see how this is some new discovery.


5 posted on 08/15/2016 3:53:36 PM PDT by b4me (Idolatry is rampant in thoughts and actions. Choose whom you will serve....)
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To: DogByte6RER

What do you mean that you’re out of bananas for banana daiquiris again?


6 posted on 08/15/2016 3:55:05 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (Shut up, Bob Costas. Shut up! Shut up! Shut up! Shut up! Shut up! Shut up!)
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To: DogByte6RER

Always tip your bartender. Or they’ll rip your arms out of their sockets.


8 posted on 08/15/2016 3:57:33 PM PDT by Sirius Lee (If Trump loses, America dies)
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To: DogByte6RER

As a former restaurant owner are you telling me bartenders aren’t monkeys? Who knew? :)


9 posted on 08/15/2016 3:59:57 PM PDT by mort56
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use prior experiences to predict what will happen in new situations, a ability called “affective forecasting”.

But not liberals. When their experiences go awry they just double down. I think we need a designated branch on the human family tree for them. A stumpy branch that never flowers.

10 posted on 08/15/2016 4:02:12 PM PDT by To Hell With Poverty (Paisley Park is in my heart.)
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To: DogByte6RER

The machines are going to take over.

This is the future because businesses cannot be competitive in this environment. Regulation, taxes, HR costs, labor strikes, lawsuits, rising health care costs, wage increases, and more hidden costs for employees are strangling business. Once automated machines are available any business owner would be a fool to not invest heavily in them and shed themselves of problems and costs.


11 posted on 08/15/2016 4:04:33 PM PDT by volunbeer (Clinton Cash = Proof of Corruption)
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To: DogByte6RER

As long as they make a good 7 and 7.


12 posted on 08/15/2016 4:28:03 PM PDT by chargers fan
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I started bartending at a young age.

By the time I was 26 I was managing a series of bars.

Once, another bartender and I were confined for three hours in a ‘bar’ (really just a occasional use bar for meetings of this type) while awaiting the end of an owners association on a lake in Minnesota. VERY expensive property and open bar for 300+ folks from all over the country.

The other bartender and I made a wager: pick the last five drinkers to leave the annual meeting.

His picks were #1, #3, #4 and two others who left much earlier.

I won with #1, #2, #3, #4 and, damn it(!) #6.

It was easy for me... by that time I had 15+ years reading folks who order drinks.

No monkey can do that...


13 posted on 08/15/2016 4:33:38 PM PDT by BBB333 (Q: Which is grammatically correct? Joe Biden IS or Joe Biden ARE an idiot?)
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To: To Hell With Poverty

Heh ... this reminds me of a variation on an old joke that could go something like:

Wondering about his ancestry, a liberal-progressive looked up his family tree and an ape sh!t on him ...


14 posted on 08/15/2016 4:37:30 PM PDT by DogByte6RER ("Loose lips sink ships")
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Some bartenders were created greater than other bartenders.



15 posted on 08/15/2016 4:46:58 PM PDT by Bratch ("The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke)
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To: volunbeer

I, for one welcome our automated AI robotic overlords.


16 posted on 08/15/2016 5:07:17 PM PDT by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
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To: DogByte6RER

already happened.

My kids and I joke around as we walk around and say , “Robot”. Burger flippers, pizza makers, ticket takers, servers at theaters, check out clerks, mechanics, etc...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBF7EE2xnN4


17 posted on 08/15/2016 5:14:01 PM PDT by Dick Vomer (2 Timothy 4:7 deo duce ferro comitante)
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Won’t stop the inventory shrink...

http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/nature/chimpanzees-found-routinely-drinking-alcohol-in-wild-10309101.html


18 posted on 08/15/2016 5:25:47 PM PDT by ameribbean expat
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Damn dirty ape photo image_zps9ujxi0r5.gif "Take your stinking paws off that bartender you d@mn dirty ape!"
19 posted on 08/15/2016 5:34:41 PM PDT by DogByte6RER ("Loose lips sink ships")
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To: BBB333

What if the monkey were expert at selling the drinks?


20 posted on 08/15/2016 6:32:45 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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