[Albion Wilde]

"The very plasticity that enabled humans to invent reading and writing can be harnessed to overcome dysfunctions in the underlying neural circuitry."

OMG, don't let the gay lobby hear this.

[bgill]

This isn’t earth shattering but what is is the so many humans refuse to believe animals have any sense at all.

[Keli Kilohana]

Run this one by them: WHY BUTT PINK?

[reagan_fanatic]

"He called me a baboon, thinks I'm his Wife!"

[dainbramaged]

If they open a machine shop, give me a call.

[Revolting cat!]

Heck, some of them have signed up as members here!

[kathsua]

The claim that “Zevs” is a “nonsense” word might come as a shock to the French street artist named “Zevs”.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zevs_(artist)

[Chode]

they recognize shapes not words...

[Popman]

The champion speller was a baboon called Dan, who learned 308 words, around three times as many as his chums.

This baboon was probably homeschooled / s

[Popman]

They learned to distinguish scores of words, identifying them with an accuracy of 75 percent,

Hmmm....how does a baboon "learn" a word and not remember it later ?

Someone posted up thread said they recognize shapes not the words...seems the 75 % number would make sense sense that letter as shapes in a minimum of 4 "letters " would confuse them....if only one letter was different in the sequence

[mjp]

When they are able to connect particular words to concepts and then use them as their basic means of survival, then I will be impressed

[the invisib1e hand]

So, you’re saying they can read a teleprompter?

[hosepipe]

Must be why even democrats can vote..

[Dick Bachert]

This really IS good news.
The next conservative administration can replace all those worthless and dangerous bureaucrats with baboons. I hear they work for peanuts and they smell better.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

[SWAMPSNIPER]

We now can expect baboons being recruited to vote democrat.

If they push the Obama button they get a free banana.

Hell, they would fit right in with the current crop of Obama voters.