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Can Communications Be Learned From Chimps?
Pine UK writes "The Zoological Society of London are looking for volunteers who are willing to 'talk chimp' in everyday life. The ZSL will be studying the volunteers to see how talking chimp affects situations like workplace conflicts. According to BBC News, the volunteers are expected to show their emotions in a chimp like fashion. This can be done by baring their teeth and by using submissive body language such as lowering their heads and crouching. The ZSL will publish their findings later this year."
Animal behaviour experts at ZSL are asking volunteers to 'talk chimp' in everyday life and see how primate patter can resolve workplace conflicts
I can just imagine the natural progression of such an experiment:
2004: "Oooo oooo ooohhh AAHH AAHH ooo oo AAHHH AHHHH ooo ooooo..."
2005: "We own Linux."
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That humans have finally been trained to communicate after years of work!
If by "commnuication" you mean throwing your own poo to show disgust, then I would say "yes!".
When the chimp warns about WMD, there is a strong chance of war
Of COURSE we can learn communications from chimps. Didn't you see Planet of the Apes? Wait a minute... Statue of Liberty... That was OUR planet! And you blew it up! DAMN YOU!!! DAMN YOU ALL TO HELL!!!!
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This gives a whole new meaning to "Going Ape-Shit" in the work place.
Legitimizing Ape-Shit behavior between team managers definately does not provide a positive answer to the question: "Is this good for the Company?".
If acting like a monkey can take away a person's first ammendment right's in the name of terrorism, It must have something right.
"see how talking chimp affects situations like workplace conflicts"
I'm no expert in Zoology, but I'm assuming you'll have the shit beat out of you by the end of the day. It would be about as bad as saying "someone has the case of the Mondays" on a construciton site.
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Righto, good chap. In jolly olde England some words are spelt differently.
Animal behaviour experts at ZSL are asking volunteers to 'talk chimp' in everyday life...
You can't be on the Internet for more than five minutes without seeing this.
OMG! Lik can u beleev teh chimps r talkin now? ROFLOLOKOL!!1!1!
The chimps is here, and they is us.
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Why don't they just put a camera in SCO's offices?
The trolls here have been communicating on the level of lower primates for years.
Of course... give an infinite number of chimps an infinite amount of time and they will produce all the knowledge in the known universe.
Give a finite number of chimps a finite amount of time and they will produce slashdot comments.
Give a single chimp a broken typewriter and a banana and he will post dupes as CowboyNeal.
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... if I can retain the copyright on the Shakespeare plays I produce whilst participating.
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I wonder how they would respond to this, "Have you gone bananas?"
Our president and most of the republicans in political offices across this land are proof of that. So the REAL question is... is learning communication from chimps a good thing? ;P
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...how this would be any different from my current communications with my co-workers and family members...?
The morphed orangutan librarian of Unseen University on Discworld is pretty expressive with variations of "ook". Many people in the novels understand him.
...to have everyone talk like dolphins ended in abject failure. And the raw Mackerel was disgusting.
poo flinging behavior to show disgust (literal or figurative)... check
:-)
parasite grooming (a.k.a. the search for salty snacks)... check
flying off the handle for no readily apparent reason and causing others around you to follow same panicky behavior... check
Just like looking into the mirror!
Ook! is a programming language for orangutans. It workers can be building skills in conversation!
I think some of my coworkers have already agreed to participate.
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I was threatened with a law suit when I tried grooming that hottie 3 cubes over from me at work. I'll have to tell them that it is part of a real scientific study, so maybe I'll get off with a small fine and restraining order.
Ceci n'est pas une sig.
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Accordint to the structuralist theory of language and society, you cannot copy the former without copying the latter. This means that if this experiment is supposed to have any value, all the participants should also create a martriarchal polyamorous sexual commune. Which reminds me: do they still need volunteers?
You mean like picking bugs out of each other's hair to show support?
Or having sex with all the females in the office in front of the men to show your power?
Or flinging sh*t at people who say stupid things in meetings?
The funny thing is, it'd still be better than the way things work at my office.
There was quite an extensive study on a high profile figure in US Politics, and the results can be viewed here
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I'd have to say yes.
They should just study the behaviour of frat boys. Drunken ones to be specific. ;)
Sig? No thanks, I don't smoke.
Would make for some interesting board meetings, yeah?
CEO: Profits are well and truly up because of my wonderful leadership!
*sound of several bits of dung being flung through the air with dull plops*
CEO: You're too kind, really.
A monkey's uncle.
Somehow I see the dolphin experiment going horribly wrong after about three minutes.
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Didn't we prove someone could learn communication from chimps and then promptly elect them president? The surprising thing is that it seems like Bush got some of the looks in addition to the mannerisms.
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I'm not a chimp, but !
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Ten, if they're called Guybrush Threepwood.
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Take a baby, Give it to some apes, and let them raise it, then teach it english later, and have it tell us wtf they are saying
Britian spread English throughout the world during it's rampant...
Obviously we didn't spread it well enough...
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