A chimp named Juma stuck grass in his ear. Within a week, his whole group was doing it. Then he put grass in his rectum. They copied that too. What this tells us about the origins of culture is genuinely unsettling. #Primatology #HumanEvolution #AnimalCulture https://www.primatology.net/p/grass-in-the-ear-grass-in-the-rectum
Grass in the Ear, Grass in the Rectum: What Chimpanzee Fads Reveal About the Origins of Culture

A sanctuary in Zambia accidentally documented something strange about why animals — and maybe humans — copy each other.

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