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Post by Cosmic Wonder on May 3, 2024 21:51:08 GMT -5
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Post by Dub on May 3, 2024 22:52:08 GMT -5
Yeah, I saw that this morning. Very cool indeed. |
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Post by Dave Poor on May 4, 2024 0:25:38 GMT -5
I wonder if the orangutan might have seen humans using this medicinal plant and thought, "What the heck? Can't be worse than this cut under my eye!" |
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Post by Cosmic Wonder on May 4, 2024 0:54:27 GMT -5
Yeah Dave. I don’t know. Clearly animals have more going on than we’ve given them credit for. At some level they get cause and effect. When we had two miniature dachshunds, our long haired older girl would snag the best spot on a pillow in front of the fire in the winter, until our short hair would bark at te window and which would get the long hair to investigate and join in the barking also vacating the prime spot. The short hair would then take over the prime spot with an eye on me to see if she would get scolded. Conniving little girl she was. She could also open kennel latches.
Mike
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Post by millring on May 4, 2024 5:13:35 GMT -5
Before you know it they'll be playing trombone.
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Post by Cornflake on May 4, 2024 7:22:28 GMT -5
Very interesting. There's a lot about animal intelligence that we don't understand.
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Post by theevan on May 4, 2024 7:26:35 GMT -5
Obviously smart creatures. Smarter than us in that regard it seems. Modern Western medicine has a lot going for it, but I think a lot has been lost to time. The Maasai do remarkable things with plants and herbs found where they are. Though they still need help with malaria!
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Post by drlj on May 4, 2024 8:33:01 GMT -5
But ask an orangutan a math problem and they will just stare at you.
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Post by Cornflake on May 4, 2024 8:49:51 GMT -5
"But ask an orangutan a math problem and they will just stare at you." Ask me a math problem and I'll just stare at you.
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Post by Village Idiot on May 4, 2024 9:35:43 GMT -5
Cornflake beat me to it.
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Post by Dub on May 4, 2024 9:40:05 GMT -5
You have to be very careful around orangutans, they’re likely to cut you up with a razor and stuff you up the chimney. At least that’s what I’ve read.
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Post by james on May 4, 2024 11:24:09 GMT -5
I went jungle trekking in Gunung Leseur national park in the '90s. Staying for a fabulous week or so, very near an orangutan rehabilitation centre. Splendid animals. There were gibbons and other beasties in the area too. Gibbons are thrilling and beautiful to watch moving through the trees. Happy memories.
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Post by david on May 4, 2024 12:41:06 GMT -5
Having read this, I will never eat another orangutan.
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Post by TKennedy on May 4, 2024 12:53:56 GMT -5
Smarter than the parents we had that were putting cow manure polities on their kid’s open extremely wound.
Spoiler alert- it didn’t work out as they had hoped.
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