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Apes Enjoy Joking and Teasing Each Other

Great news: Apes have a sense of humour and they enjoy teasing each other

New research finds that it’s not only human babies who love to playfully tease each other. Researchers reasoned that since language is not required for this behaviour, similar kinds of playful teasing might be present in non-human animals such as chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas and orangutans. Now cognitive biologists and primatologists have documented playful teasing in four species of great apes. Like joking behaviour in humans, ape teasing is provocative, persistent, and includes elements of surprise and play. Because all four great ape species used playful teasing, it is likely that the prerequisites for humour evolved in the human lineage at least 13 million years ago.

Bonobos Can Inspire More Peaceful Democracies

Bonobo Pan paniscus are highly intelligent and use tools. as seen here fishing in a river using a tree branch.

Bonobos can inspire a more peaceful democracy. Primatologists explain the fascinating lives of these mostly peaceful primates. Boycott palm oil when you shop!