by inkling 6 Replies latest jw friends
Ok, so I posted this link on the recent thread about "Ape Rights", but for those who didn't
get three pages into that thread, this is an amazing video that makes me realize just how thin
and arbitrary the wall is that we place between ourselves and other animals.
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/susan_savage_rumbaugh_on_apes_that_write.html
[inkling]
That was super interesting....
They are so gentle, the hair cut to baby that's talent without hurting it.
And playing "Pac Man" .........lol
Nice video
hope4others
Geez, I thought this was gonna be about the governing body
absolutely facinating
That's a great video - thanks. Pac-Man! LOL
I love that TED site. Could watch it all day.
Good idea to devote a separate thread to this interesting topic!
Here's my reply to this video on the other thread:
inkling, Thanks for posting this impressive video on bonobos. Very interesting the researcher says that cultural exposure plays a more important role than biology (by the way, this makes us rethink the fancied importance of speciation). In the 16th century native Tasmanians were reported to lack any stone tools, fire and even music. Should they receive human rights? Of course, what makes us human is to a large extent culturally determined. So, when our closest relatives in the animal world are treated respectfully and given rights they start to behave human-like including (written) language, music and toolmaking. I believe this is the most civilized decision to take.
Chimpanzees just took a different turn somewhere down the evolutional path than we did and so the difference and we took more time with tool making and traveling farther and being adaptable to different climates once we discovered how to use animal skins and fire.
Can we really say they are that different from us as to feeling pain and uncomfortable due to domination and imprisonment in zoos or laboratory cage for drug testing or some other experiment?
