Re:Young Gorillas Observed Dismantling Poacher Snares
by krschultz on Tuesday July 24, 2012 @10:03AM
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Maybe if you read the book he mentioned you would find out the answer to your question.
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Re:Young Gorillas Observed Dismantling Poacher Snares
by a_bonobo on Tuesday July 24, 2012 @07:08PM
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These are just hints to similar behaviour, _no definite proof_ is available and impossible to obtain.
Which is why behavioural biologists don't even go down that path of "humanizing" animals - all they do is link certain behaviour to certain actions (famous example: anal-sniffing as sexual behaviour in guinea-pigs or dogs). Looking at animals through the "human glass" can lead to some insights, but can certainly lead to terribly wrong results, too:
It's like overfitting a statistical model, you'll get noise where you expect results.