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  • Panzee the chimp is a remarkable creature who has learned the value of trade. Here she is challenged to pick tokens to trade for food. If she really is as intelligent as her handlers believe she is, she should choose the tokens for all her favourite foods first. So is she up to the task? Subscribe: bit.ly/BBCEarthSub
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  • @somerguy3527
    @somerguy3527 Před 4 lety +7720

    2014: monkey learns to trade
    2030: monkey holds people hostage and demands bananas

    • @devonbeaumont7205
      @devonbeaumont7205 Před 4 lety +149

      I like this comment.

    • @FreshBagelz
      @FreshBagelz Před 4 lety +34

      Yes.

    • @kevindube7096
      @kevindube7096 Před 4 lety +93

      If she wasn’t in a cage she would’ve murdered them both and eaten all the bananas & oranges. Followed by a slow zoom-in shot, Pansy does a Kanye shrug 🤷🏽‍♂️ and the Curb Your Enthusiasm theme plays

    • @someman6395
      @someman6395 Před 4 lety +25

      Somalian pirates have been doing it for years

    • @Akshitguleria7
      @Akshitguleria7 Před 4 lety +5

      Made me smile

  • @thecsslife
    @thecsslife Před 6 lety +7616

    The chimp is probably thinking, "humans are weird but whatever it takes to get my favorite food"

  • @motab9981
    @motab9981 Před 4 lety +2011

    This is what it feels like to be a business student

  • @1absolute8
    @1absolute8 Před 4 lety +467

    Man : What do u want?
    Chimp: I’ll have two number 9s, a number 9 large, a number 6 with extra dip, a number 7, two number 45s, one with cheese, and a laaarge soda

    • @apokalypthoapokalypsys9573
      @apokalypthoapokalypsys9573 Před 4 lety +14

      Should be top comment

    •  Před 4 lety +3

      Pretty sure, only a tiny number of people understand this one xD

    •  Před 4 lety

      @Peter Phillips Well, to be fair, the GTA base isn't small^^

    • @wjeffcunningham
      @wjeffcunningham Před 3 lety

      Came to the comments to see if anyone else was bothered by the unjustified inferences made by the researchers in this case. Stayed for the lols

    • @patriciacook3981
      @patriciacook3981 Před 3 lety

      🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

  • @climid
    @climid Před 10 lety +10853

    its all fun and games until the banana markets crash and then the 1% control all the grapes!

  • @ProfessorBorax
    @ProfessorBorax Před 10 lety +5206

    How does this experiment show she understands the concept of value? To me it just seems she understands that one drawing means orange, and another means bread.

    • @ProfessorBorax
      @ProfessorBorax Před 10 lety +1767

      What would be interesting is to have all the coins be the same, and making a fruit worth 3 coins, and a bread worth one.

    • @ThePeacemaker848
      @ThePeacemaker848 Před 10 lety +531

      Exactly what I thought.
      Boy, some people get Grants to research utter nonsense. Its a slap in the face to people who do labour jobs. Makes these researchers go work in a warehouse or shop or something. Make them realize that when you get paid to do something you need to get results.

    • @zenzaiL4D
      @zenzaiL4D Před 10 lety +1505

      ThePeacemaker848
      Sometimes in science, a finding may seem insignificant because it does not have a practical application at the time the discovery is made. But this does not mean that the finding will not contribute to science in the future. This is what separates applied research to basic research, and is why the layperson often fail to understand the importance of the latter (it looks insignificant). Let me illustrate this with an example; Oklahoma senator Tom Coburn criticized scientific projects that sounded "funny", among them was one project that involved effective ways for freezing rat sperm. Many critiqued the study because it sounded bizarre and weird. What the layperson did not know is that we have very valuable rat strains that represent particular models of human disease, and if one is able to freeze the sperm, researchers could re-create that rat, and save a lot of money (Boyer, 2010, p.62).
      Keep in mind also that you are basing your opinion on a 3:09 minute long clip. Do you believe that you have a full understanding of the whole study, the methodology used, or the controls they use to measure variables? This is a clip that is made for the sole reason of giving a glimpse at what is being researched, not a clip that tries to educate us on the inner details in their experimental setup.

    • @1missing
      @1missing Před 10 lety +469

      ThePeacemaker848
      Because you are an expert on experimental psychology apparently. "Privileged" is also not the word I would use, they went through 8+ years of schooling to get to do what they do, that you don't consider their research worthwhile doesn't mean it isn't

    • @ThePeacemaker848
      @ThePeacemaker848 Před 10 lety +50

      1missing
      well its worthwhile to them because they are getting paid to do it.
      Have you been to university? Most of what they teach is useless.

  • @jamesblunt006
    @jamesblunt006 Před 4 lety +1116

    Chimp: "I've trained these humans really well. They understand which food item they should give me for which token. They might even have an understanding of trade and value!"

    • @qitzpaquitojr.reston2337
      @qitzpaquitojr.reston2337 Před 4 lety +2

      i think dogs are more trainable and intelligent than chimpanzees or any other primates.

    • @affirmationsandlovesimplys1260
    • @All4reason
      @All4reason Před 4 lety +5

      Chimps don't have a Theory of Mind developed enough to make assertions about the contains of a human brain (and it is doubtful they can do it with grapes besides some perspective-taking)

    • @jamesblunt006
      @jamesblunt006 Před 4 lety +20

      @@All4reason O RLY? Looks like you don't have a Theory of Mind developed enough to make assertions about the contains of a joke.

    • @aarontheperson6867
      @aarontheperson6867 Před 4 lety +13

      @@jamesblunt006 damn, that's an old ass meme but you burnt that guy alive

  • @robyshaji3445
    @robyshaji3445 Před 5 lety +300

    * C H I M P C A P I T A L I S M *

  • @lobsterworldwide
    @lobsterworldwide Před 5 lety +691

    0:45 this test is at the cutting edge of research into chimp intelligence. *Goofy music plays*

    • @ke1399
      @ke1399 Před 5 lety +2

      LobsterProductions 😂

    • @19MEJIA93
      @19MEJIA93 Před 4 lety +2

      LobsterProductions it kinda reminded me of the pink panther song

    • @djstarsign
      @djstarsign Před 4 lety

      😂😂😂

    • @gopalpathamukherjee175
      @gopalpathamukherjee175 Před 4 lety

      Ha ha

    • @mayur7262
      @mayur7262 Před 3 lety +1

      I know right!! This is how Elon Musk needs to film the next SpaceX launch 😂😂

  • @royhoco5748
    @royhoco5748 Před 8 lety +1106

    if the chimp was really smart it would take the board with the chips over to food and eliminate walking back and forth

    • @gromitpesley
      @gromitpesley Před 8 lety +74

      Smart? Or laziness?

    • @royhoco5748
      @royhoco5748 Před 8 lety +101

      +Gromit Pesley lack of understanding of the system

    • @karipundai4725
      @karipundai4725 Před 5 lety +70

      Those have already evolved and now commenting to each other on CZcams.

    • @5alidal
      @5alidal Před 5 lety +3

      Kari Pundai
      Why do you think that some evolved while the others remained the same? Either they would all evolve or all would remain the same.

    • @reapz3919
      @reapz3919 Před 5 lety +30

      @@5alidallol what a dumbass

  • @devandevan1403
    @devandevan1403 Před 4 lety +141

    Chimp 1: hey bro can I have a piece of that fruit
    Chimp 2: Sure dude, here.
    Researcher: *e x t r a o r d i n a r y*

    • @rodolfolaravaldes1627
      @rodolfolaravaldes1627 Před 4 lety +16

      Haha It's kind of extraordinary. True altruism is rare in the animal kingdom, but it's pretty common within humans. Studying apes and their behavior really could teach us a lot about how we evolved.

    • @gloverelaxis
      @gloverelaxis Před 3 lety +28

      i love that capitalism is so deeply soaked into our society that the voiceover claims that this is some kind of "investment", rather than just an ape giving their friend some fruit.

    • @hubblebublumbubwub5215
      @hubblebublumbubwub5215 Před rokem

      Unlike this experiment it's actually pretty sophisticated. Most group animals have a simple fixed order of who eats first. Chimps remember who owes who and if you don't play fair they'll destroy you. They recognize there can be personal gain in altruism and have a strong (too strong) sense of justice.

    • @Douio
      @Douio Před měsícem +1

      ​@@gloverelaxis because if you see ape documentaries and such it usually isn't so linear. Several times some apes only give out food specifically for tactical reasons either to build relationships to make power moves in rising up the ranks in their own group. While in this environment it's less serious

    • @KannaFan
      @KannaFan Před měsícem

      @@gloverelaxis
      Giving to friends helps strengthen bonds. They're more likely to have your back if the need arises. So yes, it could be called a sort of investment.

  • @aravindvissamsetty
    @aravindvissamsetty Před 4 lety +51

    Is everyone going to ignore the fact that the Chimp casually walked over when told to at 0:43?

    • @kingdedede2400
      @kingdedede2400 Před 4 lety +10

      Chimps are smart enough to know what pointing and certain sounds mean.

    • @manofgod7622
      @manofgod7622 Před 3 lety +2

      They have a really complex language which consists of many simple gestures.

    • @Carl-Gauss
      @Carl-Gauss Před rokem

      I like how the Chimp also touches her head with her hand as if silently saying “Yes, ma’am!”

  • @MysteryPancake
    @MysteryPancake Před 5 lety +1377

    by the end, Panzee has successfully gained type 3 diabetes

    • @front331
      @front331 Před 5 lety +4

      Lol.

    • @eamonahern7495
      @eamonahern7495 Před 4 lety +2

      Or coeliac disease because of the bread

    • @turtleextra4128
      @turtleextra4128 Před 4 lety +5

      Eamon Ahern bread does not cause the genetic disease celiacs

    • @eamonahern7495
      @eamonahern7495 Před 4 lety +14

      @@turtleextra4128 just like there's no type 3 diabetes.

    • @a.90129
      @a.90129 Před 4 lety +1

      Eamon Ahern It’s a joke.

  • @XxMr1XxX
    @XxMr1XxX Před 4 lety +26

    Aliens be like: "these humans are so primitive, they need their mouth to communicate."

  • @ME-pj6zl
    @ME-pj6zl Před 4 lety +8

    2045: chimp invests at the stocks market

  • @TheMariorrivera
    @TheMariorrivera Před 4 lety +85

    Joe Rogan must have watched this a thousand times.

  • @andrewb6194
    @andrewb6194 Před 5 lety +113

    5,000 years later
    “We live in a chimpanciety”

    • @Elyhhk
      @Elyhhk Před 4 lety

      ʕ º ᴥ ºʔaha

  • @CliffuckingBooth
    @CliffuckingBooth Před 5 lety +58

    Just wait when one day you handle him piece of bread and he yells NOOO !

  • @Nathan-xv7bc
    @Nathan-xv7bc Před 4 lety +84

    It’s all good until he starts trading drugs

  • @GetToThePointAlready
    @GetToThePointAlready Před 4 lety +11

    1:15 - Chimp looks at the camera like "You believe what these idiots make me do for food?"

  • @danieloktovian9523
    @danieloktovian9523 Před 3 lety +16

    2014 : Monke learn to trade
    2018 : Monke going to trade school
    2022 : Monke open up Oil company
    2026 : Monke Conquer stock market
    2030 : Monke become top 1%
    2036 : Age of monke

  • @hubblebublumbubwub5215
    @hubblebublumbubwub5215 Před 3 lety +62

    As other people have pointed out, this only means it can perform an action to get a thing. What would actually be interesting is to test whether they'd hoard tokens for future consumption. Would they trade carrots for tokens so they can later buy bananas?

    • @alexcisneros2980
      @alexcisneros2980 Před 2 lety +5

      Now that would prove the understanding of trades and currency. A dolphin did a similar thing.

    • @hubblebublumbubwub5215
      @hubblebublumbubwub5215 Před 2 lety +1

      @@alexcisneros2980 Is there a video or article about the dolphin? you got me curious

    • @peterp2153
      @peterp2153 Před rokem

      Be interesting but I wonder if chimps are hard wired to want what they want now, all at once.

    • @ethyr
      @ethyr Před rokem +7

      Yeah, that would be an actually useful study. Instead, all they did was teach the monkey a trick to know which token will give her which food... I could do the same with my dog.

    • @asher9827
      @asher9827 Před rokem

      Yea this is what I was wondering, like why didnt panzee just take all the token of her favourite foods all at once to the merchant and then trade. That would demonstrate she understands greed and manipulation which is a complex emotion. This also demonstrates she has the ability to think retroactively about cause and effect like how many tokens will get her what foods all at once. Which I believe is higher order thinking. Also doing that means to value currency which is a hallmark of trade.

  • @deboogs
    @deboogs Před 2 lety +32

    She's so polite taking one at a time.

  • @jeffgreen3376
    @jeffgreen3376 Před 4 lety +15

    Next, you need to teach her that she has to work 8 hours a day to earn the tokens. lol

  • @ethanmendelson6978
    @ethanmendelson6978 Před 7 lety +44

    I'm not sure if this really shows that she understands trading and value in an abstract sense, but more so that she can correlate an image to a food and understands quid pro quo (which is super cool on its own).

    • @6Haunted-Days
      @6Haunted-Days Před 9 měsíci

      Yea let’s not listen to the DOCTOR doing a study with a chimp he knows INTIMATELY…….but listen to YOU, a nobody with god knows what education. I’ll say now, Even with just your silly inane comment…..you clearly can’t be THAT intelligent…..I mean Christ…..seriously? 🙄😂🤣😂😮‍💨🤡

  • @DiscipleOfHeavyMeta1
    @DiscipleOfHeavyMeta1 Před 4 lety +12

    2020: Humans teach chimpanzees how to build class society.

  • @geertwilders5994
    @geertwilders5994 Před 4 lety +15

    2030: Chimpansee owns microsoft

  • @thenightporter
    @thenightporter Před 2 lety +6

    Pansy is so polite and ladylike. She is adorable.🥰

  • @TheBoostedDoge
    @TheBoostedDoge Před 4 lety +43

    2014: Monkey is introduced to capitalism
    2024: Monkey discovers Oil
    Middle East: Ah shit here we go again

  • @martinjacobson3191
    @martinjacobson3191 Před 6 lety +167

    0:34 She forgot to remove the sticker from the Orange! not acceptable!

    • @Mike-kr5dn
      @Mike-kr5dn Před 5 lety +4

      Martin Jacobsen it was the dude cutting the food up

    • @tonistaak
      @tonistaak Před 5 lety +7

      They don't eat outer skin

    • @sabin97
      @sabin97 Před 5 lety +1

      thatś fucked up...
      who puts stickers on oranges?!

    • @ratdoto2148
      @ratdoto2148 Před 5 lety +10

      The stickers are actually edible.

    • @ratdoto2148
      @ratdoto2148 Před 5 lety +9

      @skylerelax No it isn't. The paper and the glue is made out of FDA approved materials that will pass through your system with no harm.

  • @_bad_wizard_
    @_bad_wizard_ Před 4 lety +5

    Just wait until they learn about communsim

  • @dtedmj
    @dtedmj Před 4 lety +7

    If they can understand trading, they can understand money. If they can understand money, they can understand to work for money. If they can understand work for money, they can understand if they work they can use that money to buy their favorite food from the supermarket. You can actually run a successful little business with these guys. They might even turn on you one day and overtake you as the head of that business

  • @angelicaantezana9114
    @angelicaantezana9114 Před 4 lety +12

    That’s really cool.
    I remember seeing some of the retired chimps at Project Chimp were taught by their previous owners to pick up trash from their enclousure and trade it for treats with the caretakers.
    I’m not an expert, just a big animal and science enthusiast. I can only imagine what sort of common exchanges take place among chimps.
    As an educated guess, I suspect trading is most common between chimps who are friends, or want to be friends. Sharing extra food with your pal who in exchange also shares their finds with you. Friendship could be what the chimps want to buy most, using service, favors, food and items of interest as their currency.
    There’s my 2 cents.

    • @genxx2724
      @genxx2724 Před rokem

      The orangutan rehab in Borneo showed an orange grab a bunch of her favorite turnips, sit by herself, defend the turnips against another who tried to take some, then share them with her friend when the friend arrived.

  • @stagger9660
    @stagger9660 Před 8 lety +134

    i dont think the chimp understand trade and value. i think it realizes that it can do this simple task. (like giving the man that specific object) and in turn the chimp gets a reward. all this was, was the illusion that the animal has that kind of capacity.

    • @8FoxyMokaDove6
      @8FoxyMokaDove6 Před 7 lety +14

      Bubbles keep telling yourself that buddy.

    • @bezwzglednypierozek7884
      @bezwzglednypierozek7884 Před 5 lety +19

      Nick and what is trade if not just that? should they do the experiment with real money for you to see it? I personally think they should do this with real money, it would be funnier

    • @jules_logan4305
      @jules_logan4305 Před 5 lety

      Nick Watch this and tell me you don’t think they understand trading: czcams.com/video/ovpsuyRanw8/video.html

    • @eclogs9117
      @eclogs9117 Před 5 lety +7

      That's called value though. Money is just a item that we realize can do tasks or get us things. That's literally . you said

    • @4f52
      @4f52 Před 4 lety

      Yes, this experiment is all wrong.

  • @notintohandles
    @notintohandles Před rokem

    Excellent production.

  • @jackwindensky5606
    @jackwindensky5606 Před rokem +3

    An interesting test would be what would she would do if she found them lying on the ground, especially if she wasn’t hungry. Would she store them and wait to use them later?

  • @FUBARGunpla
    @FUBARGunpla Před 5 lety +4

    It's not just the fact that she's understanding the concept of trade, or doing something to recieve something, I mean we can see that in rats with drug tests. But more importantly it's the fact she took the time to decide based off of what she likes, her tastes if you will, before the trade hahah she took the time to peruse the wares

  • @JulieWallis1963
    @JulieWallis1963 Před rokem +12

    She only takes one token each time. She’s never greedy! What a good girl Pansy is.

    • @trollol_
      @trollol_ Před rokem

      monkey very greedy it trained to take one at time. when monkey take one, give treat. if monkey take none or more than one, no treat. pretty soon, monkey just take one at time.

    • @irgendeinname9256
      @irgendeinname9256 Před rokem +1

      Not about greed since she takes all she wants anyways. She is inefficient

    • @user_anonymous000
      @user_anonymous000 Před 11 měsíci

      Yeah she sell me a unused car yesterday. Guess what? I got scammed.

  • @braedennn4050
    @braedennn4050 Před 4 lety +2

    I feel like these videos are videos we would watch in school
    But I love them

  • @silvers2211
    @silvers2211 Před 3 lety

    This is truly fascinating

  • @KachinggaKisses
    @KachinggaKisses Před 10 lety +16

    And people say animals are stupid. They're so intelligent. Animals are amazing.

    • @cplpetergriffin1583
      @cplpetergriffin1583 Před 5 lety +3

      Some animals are very very stupid. Like deer for example

    • @Corzappy
      @Corzappy Před 5 lety +5

      Some animals can’t even be called stupid. Like the jellyfish for example, it has literally no brain so you can’t call it stupid.

    • @mcskillet7106
      @mcskillet7106 Před 5 lety

      my dog can't recognize me if im standing in a stairway

    • @mcskillet7106
      @mcskillet7106 Před 5 lety

      my other dog eats his own poop and throws up afterwards

  • @flakeyfilms5792
    @flakeyfilms5792 Před 3 lety +3

    Next up: Trading paper clip for a house.

  • @roncoulombe1058
    @roncoulombe1058 Před rokem +1

    What she really understands is if the fence was down she would be conducting a completely different experiment.

  • @laisbarros2889
    @laisbarros2889 Před 3 lety +5

    É muito bom ver como são inteligentes

  • @MrGrombie
    @MrGrombie Před 6 lety +2

    I've always been a proponent in the qualities that we define as "human" are not really human at all. But are shared by many animals. And their "intelligence" is based on a fish's ability to climb.

  • @samm1809
    @samm1809 Před 9 lety +182

    1:04 'This will demonstrate that she understands the concept of currency and value.' What? More like she knows how to order at a buffet. I love how that chimp experiment room has all the feel of a prison.

    • @samm1809
      @samm1809 Před 8 lety +8

      Darnocium Sweggiest lord of all Yeah I know, I'm just saying... That is one depressing room.

    • @squashedshibber2684
      @squashedshibber2684 Před 8 lety +31

      clearly they have a big roomy outside enclosure they spend the majority of their time in so why do you care?

    • @SpencerOilChangeLOL
      @SpencerOilChangeLOL Před 5 lety +8

      its just because chimp hasnt used the "renovate my cage" chip yet.

    • @GinoNL
      @GinoNL Před 4 lety

      They don’t know what a human prison is. They just know it as an area.

  • @fluffywuffykinsies
    @fluffywuffykinsies Před 10 měsíci

    Even though I couldn't see it up close it was still so cute when the chimp took the m&ms in her hand

  • @libbeytds
    @libbeytds Před rokem +2

    Doesn't mean the chimp understands the concept of currency/value. This is basic conditioning: If I bring the orange square, I get an orange.

  • @jorjicostava9802
    @jorjicostava9802 Před rokem +2

    If you really want to test it you should let her work a couple of times a day with puzzles or something like that for cheap tokens and teach her if she works for days and saves up tokens she could get the oranges or she can use the tokens instantly for bread grapes and so on

  • @noeesparza39
    @noeesparza39 Před 6 lety +67

    I truly love seeing this stuff. I hope one day our species can live together. Maybe not completely the same or anytime soon, but I believe these studies are baby steps.

    • @Callummullans
      @Callummullans Před 2 lety +6

      100% agree just look at the habits and behaviours they are capable of copying just out of their own curiosity. I feel that it is our obligation as apex apes to pass on knowledge, it stars with comprehension.

    • @gaming4K
      @gaming4K Před 2 lety

      Check out Kanzi the bonobo way better research bzt don't get as much credit. 😒

    • @truth_powers
      @truth_powers Před 2 lety +13

      Bro wut…

    • @hubblebublumbubwub5215
      @hubblebublumbubwub5215 Před rokem

      Chimps are violent monsters. Orangutans are not only more friendly but also more intelligent.

    • @mistycloud4455
      @mistycloud4455 Před rokem +1

      A.G.I Will be man's last invention

  • @asher9827
    @asher9827 Před rokem +1

    Yea this is what I was wondering, like why didnt panzee just take all the token of her favourite foods all at once to the merchant and then trade. That would demonstrate she understands greed and manipulation which is a complex emotion. This also demonstrates she has the ability to think retroactively about cause and effect like how many tokens will get her what foods all at once. Which I believe is higher order thinking. Also doing that means to value currency which is a hallmark of trade.

  • @CradleRobbingRuthy
    @CradleRobbingRuthy Před 3 lety

    I can watch this again and again

  • @Kenny-ut6he
    @Kenny-ut6he Před 4 lety +6

    I would love to work with these wonderful smart animals

  • @mandoman6786
    @mandoman6786 Před 3 lety +3

    This is literally minecraft IRL the chimps are just villagers

  • @MrHaydnSir
    @MrHaydnSir Před 4 lety +1

    could watch them for hours

  • @laptopdroptop9457
    @laptopdroptop9457 Před 4 lety +1

    0:45 “this test is at the cutting edge of chimp training” -- 2 people talking to a chimp

  • @BusyBadger1
    @BusyBadger1 Před 4 lety +3

    Chimp: S T O N K S

  • @Burakismus
    @Burakismus Před 4 lety +27

    when capitalism reaches animal kingdom

  • @thunderlips5293
    @thunderlips5293 Před 4 lety +1

    *Their evolving.*

  • @karmamantegna5322
    @karmamantegna5322 Před 4 lety

    Thatis absolutely amazing

  • @andrewgodly5739
    @andrewgodly5739 Před 4 lety +4

    I dont think they've taught him to trade. It's more like an extra step to get food. Like training a dog to sit before it gets a treat. It's just more complex as the chimp gets to choose it's treat.
    For this to be a scenario where the chimp is trading it would need to think that it owns the little tokens. This could be displayed by the chimp storing them somewhere, like a hole in a tree or sack of some sort. Your right to property extends as far as you're willing to fend off others from taking it, property is naturally a very aggressive concept. So if someone tried to take the tokens away he would need to react in a way that prevents them from taking the tokens. Then he would need to approach the person with food when ever he feels like it. It can't be in controlled demonstration, because he would be trained to perform the actions instead of genuinely meaning them

    • @Alizudo
      @Alizudo Před 4 lety +1

      We already know chimps understand the concept of property, so your idea should hopefully be put into practice for an experiment. In the BBC show "Spy in the Wild" a 5-year old chimp (a completely WILD chimp, I might add) kidnaps a robot turtle and keeps it as a pet/toy. Going so far as to fight off any other chimp who tries to touch it, let alone take it.

    • @Gruff46
      @Gruff46 Před 3 lety

      Comparing a dog to a chimpanzee is pretty irrational

    • @andrewgodly5739
      @andrewgodly5739 Před 3 lety

      @@Gruff46 we compare ourselves to other animals all the time. It's the only way we can understand them as we can only understand behavior similar to ours. You dont even know what "Irrational" mean or how and where to use it. Lol

    • @Joshua-xy1lr
      @Joshua-xy1lr Před 3 lety

      Strawman argument

  • @Lemon-yp5ed
    @Lemon-yp5ed Před 5 lety +5

    The problem is, a possible form of inflation with wood!

  • @synthiapyre5618
    @synthiapyre5618 Před 4 lety

    It's all fun and games until a chimp finds a hunny-bun under their pillow.

  • @alexanders2669
    @alexanders2669 Před 4 lety +1

    You ever just get sucked down a wormhole of chimp videos

  • @uesdtosignin1038
    @uesdtosignin1038 Před 4 lety +4

    0:33 Is that M&M ?

  • @ChrissyD22472
    @ChrissyD22472 Před 5 lety +3

    She brought the bread token but didn't really want the bread, lol..

  • @viklondon3466
    @viklondon3466 Před 4 lety +2

    2:36 that chimp is beautiful

  • @jakemarshh
    @jakemarshh Před 4 lety +2

    A smart chimp would take all the coins and buy all the food.

  • @SkYHawK2600
    @SkYHawK2600 Před 5 lety +3

    What I would do is I will give him a labor that he have to do eat and give him a token with every labor he accomplished. And every food item needs a certain amount of token to aquire it. For example he have to do the labor once to get the bread but three times to get the banana. Then let's see if he understands the concept of currency.

  • @Eskey__
    @Eskey__ Před 4 lety +8

    2:22 I’m in love 😍

  • @EpistemeUM
    @EpistemeUM Před 4 lety +1

    There's an Orangutan in Myrtle Beach that adopted a dog. Or maybe more like the dog adopted him... The park owners don't feed the dog, Suryia does, giving the dog food when he's fed. He will also split his treats, they'll give him something and he breaks it in half and gives half back to them. Pretty cool stuff. Channel w/vids is "MyrtleBeachSafari".

  • @givanza1188
    @givanza1188 Před 4 lety +1

    Just wait until the grape value crashes.

  • @GigaGoose123
    @GigaGoose123 Před 5 lety +14

    Bananacoin will go to $100k! Mark my words

  • @joecloonan4269
    @joecloonan4269 Před 4 lety +3

    Governments running an economy: an inside look

  • @ramon1f
    @ramon1f Před 4 lety

    the very last part shows how smart chimps really are to think that thru

  • @sfsen
    @sfsen Před rokem

    Aliens watching humans do their tests and gasping "awww" would probably be not so far away.

  • @SineEyed
    @SineEyed Před 5 lety +5

    Regarding the concepts of value and trade, I'm inclined to point out that - Bonobos do it better.. 😉

  • @MrMexikin
    @MrMexikin Před 5 lety +32

    That woman in red was beautiful

  • @ubuntuposix
    @ubuntuposix Před 3 lety +1

    Teaching the chimps bureaucracy.

  • @djrobb-hv8ck
    @djrobb-hv8ck Před 4 lety

    Omg. The chimps has been right there with us but making us do all the work.

  • @colorado841
    @colorado841 Před 5 lety +5

    The chip first learns to point at symbols to get a certain food, then to carry the symbols over to another person. It is a very basic level of intelligence that could be demonstrated without any concept of value, trade or currency.

  • @rsabinioan
    @rsabinioan Před 5 lety +8

    All it takes now is to make it work 8 hours a day in order to get thr tokens and you can enslave them
    Really makes you think

    • @June28July
      @June28July Před 5 lety +3

      Animals in the wild have to search/hunt for their food. That takes work. I have a job that feeds me and that also takes work.
      It's as if nothing really has changed over millions of years and across species lines: survival takes work. We're all slaves to our mortality.

    • @vladimirsukmeovf1211
      @vladimirsukmeovf1211 Před 5 lety

      @@June28July Slaves to our mortality? You mean slaves to our biological desire to survive? Cause death is real easy, i can not give a fuck about anything and slit my wrist right now.. and that would be the exact opposite of what you meant to say, that would be the ultimate freedom from my biological programming.

  • @Renatinho12ful
    @Renatinho12ful Před 4 lety +1

    everybodys gangsta teaching chimps till they discover the fire

  • @HDitzzDH
    @HDitzzDH Před 3 lety

    2040: Chimps starting up companies.

  • @adimanav5455
    @adimanav5455 Před 8 lety +8

    Drilling CAPITALISM into chips .. just hilarious

  • @TristanJCumpole
    @TristanJCumpole Před 10 lety +7

    Interesting. I don't think humans have actually come that far from our relative's trading/investment strategies. Cynical? Definitely, but we do dress it up with feigned altruism to the point where we ourselves don't know that we're acting with our own self-interests in mind.

    • @fuqmeplzable
      @fuqmeplzable Před 9 lety

      Prostheta It's not feigned. The reason our race survived is because we evolved to be concerned about furthering not only our own genes but the genes of those we're related to and even the genes of the human race. Altruism is evolutionarily advantageous for a species and that's why we have it... And it's not unique to humans.

    • @TristanJCumpole
      @TristanJCumpole Před 9 lety

      Cyrus Toles In that instance, it is not altruism. There is specific return (the furthering of one's own and related genes) which makes it an investment strategy. Altruism by its very nature is for no return or reward.

    • @fuqmeplzable
      @fuqmeplzable Před 9 lety

      Prostheta
      And I'm saying that altruism by its very nature of selfless concern, is actually a biological investment strategy. You're not cognizant of it being an investment strategy when you do it, only your genes know the truth.

    • @TristanJCumpole
      @TristanJCumpole Před 9 lety

      Cyrus Toles The word altruism is being used incorrectly, then. You're correct that altruism is a selfless concern, so any involvement of an investment strategy means it is no longer altruistic. Perhaps it has the appearance of altruism, however behind it is a simple drive towards return by preservation of one's (or one's closest) genes.

    • @TristanJCumpole
      @TristanJCumpole Před 9 lety +1

      Human "altruism" is riddled with strategies such as image preservation, false flag deception and all manner of social layers; cognisant or not. We're no different to animals, no matter how much we'd like to pretend we are.

  • @justconfused6591
    @justconfused6591 Před 4 lety +1

    You can even see in the beginning of the video he understands where they want him to go to

  • @uoilo
    @uoilo Před 4 lety +2

    Chimp: walks into room
    *sees shopkeeper guy and the girl with the tokens
    "here we go again"

  • @aleanicole7836
    @aleanicole7836 Před 5 lety +7

    How could anyone dislike this she’s a genius

  • @guthoriantony
    @guthoriantony Před 6 lety +139

    Why are all these animal loving chicks hot?!

  • @welldone6080
    @welldone6080 Před 3 lety

    Chimp Learns to Trade - sounds like title of wall street educational book.

  • @knight_king3135
    @knight_king3135 Před 4 lety

    Beautiful animals they are

  • @quackack7145
    @quackack7145 Před 4 lety +5

    Even I want a woman in red to study me😭

  • @markh9875
    @markh9875 Před 4 lety +3

    "Trade" involves giving up something of value. So that first experiment showed a grasp of sybols, but not of trade. The tokens had no value outside the limits of the experiment at that moment, so the ape gave up nothing. If the ape had finished by scooping up the orange tokens to use later, that would have given the tokens some value as storers of value.

    • @markh9875
      @markh9875 Před 4 lety

      @glyn hodges I agree. I particularly hate the "a new study shows X" kind of reporting. This is typical in issues of health and medicine, but also in politicized public policy issues. Reporters often either do not grasp statistics or simply will not be bothered with nuance or ambiguity.

  • @pranjalvw2193
    @pranjalvw2193 Před rokem +1

    This was 8 years ago.
    Today Ceser is a wall street derivatives trader

  • @JohnDoe-eh4id
    @JohnDoe-eh4id Před 3 lety +1

    I don't know what to say 😂 apes studying other apes with other apes watching on CZcams

  • @sandros.6371
    @sandros.6371 Před 3 lety +7

    This interpretation of that behavior is so ideologically driven.
    The ape remembers which token relates to which fruit. That doesn’t tell you anything about trade behavior.
    Interpreting a homo economicus character of apes into social behavior (among relatives) is dull to problematic.

  • @matthewd667
    @matthewd667 Před 5 lety +3

    Not sure this proves they understand currency and value. Surely it proves they can just pick the symbol that matches what's next to their favourite item

  • @LophyIsGoated
    @LophyIsGoated Před 4 lety

    that chimp is so cute :D

  • @S2I2
    @S2I2 Před 4 lety +1

    Imagine the chimp takes all of the tokens and runs away