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Wednesday, July 02, 2008

"Your species is not a beautiful and unique snowflake."

Monkeys can do math.

First, algebra, then, the world.

I, for one, welcome our new monkey overlords.

Counting monkeys - Boing Boing:
"Monkeys can count! Researchers report a study on macaques that suggests humans may not be the only animal that can do math. From New Scientist:
(Utah State University psychologist Kerry) Jordan and colleague Elizabeth Brannon, of Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, US, trained two eight-year-old female macaques to equate beeps to dots on a computer screen. So if a monkey heard seven beeps, it knew to tap a square on the screen displaying seven dots..."

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