Re:[tips] Who's on first?

2010-10-28 Thread Mike Palij
On Wed, 27 Oct 2010 15:31:08 -0400, Allen Esterton wrote: Mike Palij wrote, quoting me first: On Tue, 26 Oct 2010 23:50:01 -0700, Allen Esterson wrote: On 26 October Michael Sylvester wrote: I saw a program on Jane Goodall where she saw chimps use sticks to fetch ants from an ant hill. She

Re: [tips] Who's on first?

2010-10-28 Thread Allen Esterson
- Re:[tips] Who's on first? Mike Palij Thu, 28 Oct 2010 06:38:39 -0700 On Wed, 27 Oct 2010 15:31:08 -0400, Allen Esterton wrote: Mike Palij wrote, quoting me first: On Tue, 26 Oct 2010 23:50:01 -0700, Allen Esterson wrote: On 26 October Michael Sylvester wrote: I saw

Re:[tips] Who's on first?

2010-10-27 Thread Jim Clark
Hi Before Mike leads us off into a pseudo-scientific Freudian explanation, how about the more mundane hypothesis that most people in the west probably associate termites with home structures, rather than mounds of dirt, with which we normally associate ants? Actually it might be a fun

Re:[tips] Who's on first?

2010-10-27 Thread Pollak, Edward
1) Chimps are apes. They are NOT monkeys 2) They were eating termites (more closely related to cockroaches than to ants) 3) The young female Japanese macaque who invented potato washing also invented a technique for separating wheat from sand. She was something of a monkey genius. 4) The NOVA

[tips] Who's on first?

2010-10-26 Thread michael sylvester
Not referring to an Abbot and Costello flick, but I saw a program on Jane Goodall where she saw chimps use sticks to fetch ants from an ant hill.She was fascinated by their tool utilization and alerted the scientific community who initially remained skeptical. However ,when I was at Wishita

Fw: [tips] Who's on first?

2010-10-26 Thread michael sylvester
Not referring to an Abbot and Costello flick, but I saw a program on Jane Goodall where she saw chimps use sticks to fetch ants from an ant hill.She was fascinated by their tool utilization and alerted the scientific community who initially remained skeptical. However ,when I was at Wichita

Re: [tips] Who's on first?

2010-10-26 Thread Serafin, John
@fsulist.frostburg.edu Conversation: [tips] Who's on first? Subject: Fw: [tips] Who's on first? Not referring to an Abbot and Costello flick, but I saw a program on Jane Goodall where she saw chimps use sticks to fetch ants from an ant hill.She was fascinated by their tool utilization and alerted

RE: [tips] Who's on first?

2010-10-26 Thread Marc Carter
-- -Original Message- From: Serafin, John [mailto:john.sera...@email.stvincent.edu] Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2010 2:15 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: Re: [tips] Who's on first? Yes, that certainly looks like the same story. Let's just leave out

Re: [tips] Who's on first?

2010-10-26 Thread michael sylvester
- Original Message - From: Marc Carter marc.car...@bakeru.edu To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) tips@fsulist.frostburg.edu Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2010 5:21 PM Subject: RE: [tips] Who's on first? People will believe the strangest things... m -- What are you

Re: [tips] Who's on first?

2010-10-26 Thread Christopher D. Green
Along similar lines, I recall seeing a nature show on television many years ago in which a macaque had learned to swim, and the behavior had spread to others of the colony, but was not seen in other macaque colonies. I have a good use for such an example but I have never been able to find a

Re: [tips] Who's on first?

2010-10-26 Thread Serafin, John
john.sera...@email.stvincent.edu From: Mike Palij m...@nyu.edu Reply-To: TIPS posts tips@fsulist.frostburg.edu Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 16:55:15 -0400 To: TIPS posts tips@fsulist.frostburg.edu Cc: Mike Palij m...@nyu.edu Subject: re: [tips] Who's on first? By the way, according to the voice