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Orangutans can help each other get food by trading tokens, scientists have discovered – but only if the help goes in both directions.

Researchers from the University of St Andrews found orangutans could learn the value of tokens and trade them, helping each other win bananas.

An article in Biology Letters, claims it is the first evidence of “calculated reciprocity” in non-human primates.

Gorillas and chimpanzees were much less willing to co-operate, they report.

In his book Origin of Life, Oparin, my fav Soviet scientist, argues that no real difference exists between the organic (living) and the inorganic (dead). The line between a mineral and a mind is unbroken. The basic behaviours of a creature can be found in a crystal. On the royal path of science, the only human activity that truly matters, we are more and more coming to see that there’s little or no difference between us and animals. For us to continue speaking about differences, it can no longer be a matter of breaks but of intensities. In the way that there is rain, steam, and snow, there are ants, orangutans, and humans.

Charles Mudede—who writes about film, books, music, and his life in Rhodesia, Zimbabwe, the USA, and the UK for The Stranger—was born near a steel plant in Kwe Kwe, Zimbabwe. He has no memory...

7 replies on “News from the Animal Kingdom”

  1. Reading one of Charles’ posts is like watching a butterfly drowning in a glass of red wine. Right before the butterfly dies it belches “UGH TITS” and rubs its tiny butterfly penis against the side of the glass.

  2. Why don’t you just type monkey sounds with little references to Marx and other worthless commies thrown in the mix now and then? It would make just as much sense as the all the other shit you post.

  4. @3, i almost feel the same way. i might even call peck’s post a work of art.

    but i must stress this: i’m not a “titties” man. they are the last things i notice.

  6. I have been of the opinion that it was man’s intense study of the other animals, either for food or to avoid being food, that gave him his enlarged brain. Gracile Australopithicus showed the first signs of thought by developing and using tools to get at bone marrow that other animals would not or could not get to. That was, I believe, 1.2 million years ago. We were pro-active participants.

  7. So the guy is rejecting dualism. Wow. What a genius, innovative mind. He should write a book about it a couple hundred years ago.

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