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REH From: futurework-boun...@lists.uwaterloo.ca [mailto:futurework-boun...@lists.uwaterloo.ca] On Behalf Of Steve Kurtz Sent: Monday, September 16, 2013 6:28 PM To: RE-DESIGNING WORK, INCOME DISTRIBUTION, EDUCATION Subject: Re: [Futurework] <spamFilter -1.9 yellow> Re: Orangutans found to plan, communicate future routes Hard to do worse for the populace than the bought govt of the US. Steve On Sep 16, 2013, at 1:45 PM, Ray Harrell wrote: Is the point that even an Orangutang is capable of central planning? REH From: futurework-boun...@lists.uwaterloo.ca [mailto:futurework-boun...@lists.uwaterloo.ca] On Behalf Of Steve Kurtz Sent: Monday, September 16, 2013 5:58 AM To: Futurework list Subject: [Futurework] Orangutans found to plan, communicate future routes We are exceptional mammals, but mammals. Steve http://www.world-science.net/othernews/130913_orangutans.htm Orangutans found to plan, communicate future routes Sept. 13, 2013 Courtesy of the University of Zurich and <http://www.world-science.net/> World Science staff Male orangutans plan their trav-el route up to a day in ad-vance and com-mu-ni-cate it to oth-er orangutans, re-search in-di-cates. An-thro-po-l-o-gists at the Uni-vers-ity of Zu-rich found that wild-living orangutans make use of the plan-ning abil-ity to at-tract fe-males and re-pel male ri-vals. <image001.jpg> A male orangutan (Courtesy U. of Zurich) _____ For a long time it was thought that only hu-mans could an-ti-cipate fu-ture ac-tions, whe-re-as an-i-mals are caught in the he-re-and-now. But re-cent, clev-er ex-pe-ri-ments with great apes in zoos have shown that they re-mem-ber past events and can plan for fu-ture needs. The Uni-vers-ity of Zu-rich group in-ves-t-i-gated wheth-er wild apes al-so have this skill. The re-search-ers fol-lowed the apes for years through the thick trop-i-cal swamp-lands of Su-ma-tra. Orangutans gen-er-ally roam the for-est alone, but they do main-tain rela-t-ion-ships. Adult males some-times emit so-called "long calls," us-ing their cheek pads to am-pli-fy sound like a meg-a-phone. These calls tend have some-what op-po-site ef-fects on male and female hear-ers. Females that hear a faint call tend to ap-proach. Non-dominant ma-les, on the oth-er hand, hur-ry away if they hear the call com-ing at them loud and clear. To maximize this ef-fect, it "would make sense for the male to call in the di-rec-tion of his fu-ture whe-re-a-bouts, if he al-ready knew about them," said re-searcher Ca-rel van Schaik of the uni-vers-ity. Con-sis-tent with this idea, the team "ob-served that the males trav-eled for sev-er-al hours in ap-prox-i-mately the same di-rec-tion as they had called." In ex-treme cases, he added, long calls made around nest-ing time in the eve-ning pre-dicted the trav-el di-rec-tion at better-than-chance rates un-til the next eve-ning. In ad-di-tion, the males of-ten an-nounced changes in trav-el di-rec-tion with a new long call, the team found. And in the morn-ing, they found, the oth-er orangutans re-acted cor-rectly to the long call of the pre-vi-ous eve-ning, even if no new long call was emitted. "Our study makes it clear that wild orangutans do not simply live in the here-and-now, but can im-ag-ine a fu-ture and even an-nounce their plans. In this sense, then, they have be-come a bit more like us," said van Schaik. The find-ings are pub-lished in the Sept. 11 is-sue of the jour-nal PLoS One. * * * Send us a comment on this story, or send it to a friend <mailto:?Body=http://www.world-science.net/othernews/130913_orangutans.htm> _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list Futurework@lists.uwaterloo.ca https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
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