Things animals do as well as people Bashny.Net

If you have someone in the bus or bed called the "animal", offended in any case impossible.
Because the person in itself belongs to the order primates, class mammals.
Unlike human brothers and sisters, our smaller not leave behind garbage and indifferent to money.
And of course, in many animals, many things turn out better than we do. Or worse. And then the animal can rightfully to call others like him being "a man».




For example:

1. Parrots give their names to the young

Because of disagreements on the question of what to call the child, many parents quarrel and do not talk to each other for a few days, silently going through the minds of all known to them, as well as fantasy names. The main criterion - that teased at school to neurosis. Olga Christina or be undoubtedly more convenient than Lucretia or the Olympics. Anyway, my father at the christening rename.


Parrots priests and schools there, but the problems are the same. For as well as dolphins, crows and primates, the kind of language used Ptakha and unique calls of facing the various members of the pack. That is, within the community of parrots, each animal was once called, literally. And not necessarily "Kesha" or "Butt-fool».


When scientists learned that the parrots are calls of identification, naturally there is a question: who and how they are appointed? Themselves whether the birds choose their nicknames? Maybe it does pack leader? Or the parents of a new member of the community? In search of answers, in 1987, a group of ornithologists from Cornell University went to Venezuela, where he made a film about the relationship between wild adult parrots and their funny chicks.


It turned out that the names of the young parrots still give their parents before malyshnya learn tweet. And when the chick will grow up and become independent, he gets right to rename itself by appointing a "nick", too, however, different from the father and the mother-given name. After the parrots do not sit on the internet.


2. Whales sing pop songs

Another, unnamed greater difference between man and animals is that people have pop culture. Someone comes up with a haunting song, record it in the studio, and then thousands of people sing it and rehash. Interestingly, almost the same thing exists in the "culture" giants of the deep sea - whales.


It is noted that whale populations all males usually "whistling" the same song - just like that, nothing else to do. Once their old "Hit" bothers someone comes up with a new one, and the other pick. Often, a new song is a remake of a previous or even "mix" of a few.


If the song is good, its popularity is not limited to a single herd. Scientists have noticed that some whale "hits" have become fashionable in the world-wide ocean - from Australia to Arabia, from Japan to California. And whales in the Indian Ocean are more creative - Pacific imitate them banal.


3. Chimpanzee playing with dolls

Childhood young human female is usually held in puppet worlds. 99% of its spend on fancy girls loved Barbie and Mashenek. It was found that the same age are engaged in a carefree young female woodcocks wild chimpanzees.


Researchers at Harvard University have found that these immatures very clever man kin train your imagination and maternal instincts on sticks, pieces of bark and twigs, small sticks in. His wooden puppet monkey lull, "educate", hit by the pope, and walking a little lodge in special houses sockets. They sleep with them as a "teddy bears" in an embrace.


Fourteen years of observations rewarded biologists unusual discovery - chimpanzees, boys too are toys. One such young male caught with a wooden 'plane was ", and the other got a girly doll after noticing that his mom got pregnant again.


Dreamers sometimes indulge in reflections on the theme of evolution. Say, if in the wild are found intelligent animals and one of them appear not only monkeys, elephants and dolphins, that were it not for people "suppress their intelligence", some octopus could create a civilization of soft-bodied, and the bees ants - build an interplanetary ship and fly into space for a bribe.

About how some animals like humans, we continue our story.

4. Among songbirds found advocates literacy

Ardent supporters of strict compliance pravelo ruskavo ezeka and ingleesh when communicating on the Internet called grammar Nazis - «grammar nazi».


Similar characters tragicomedy of life found among birds, whose "speech" is sometimes easy to transfer to a sheet of paper or a screen in the form of combinations of letters, "tweet", "curry", "doodle", etc.


The so-called Bengali finches, which are in fact not brought in Bengal, and in Japan, singing is subject to strict rules of syntax. When one begins to confuse finch "letters", certainly is another who gets angry at the "illiterate" kinsman.


Kyoto University researchers have devoted a lot of time recording "Chirikov," "drink-fyutov" and "chi-chi-chi-Weary" experimental finches, and then lost the file a few times another Kompashki these birds singing - how to convey musical greetings. The researchers then assembled from the sounds of new songs, and when listening to one of these birds came to the outrage of evil. They began to shout angrily, making sounds with which the Bengali finches quarrel with swarms of enemies of his same species. After losing the "grammatically flawed" version of a group of finches, who grew up not in nature, but in the cell, the researchers did not encounter any protest - domestic songbirds, apparently, enjoyed another "alphabet." After all, in Japan they are known to be two and a half.


Then a flock of finches from the cell lived next door to the first two groups songstress. For some two weeks they have mastered a foreign vocabulary and become as violently react improperly mounted songs.

5. The resolution of disputes chimpanzees rely on third parties

If two people are not able to resolve the conflict between them, they have to either argue forever, or go to court, where a decision for them to take a disinterested person - the referee. Even as a child, after a quarrel, we are looking for someone intelligent, who could reconcile. Independent arbitration - one of the best achievements of human civilization.


However, it appears that the institution of professional judges exists in schools chimpanzees. Over millions of years of social existence, these monkeys dotumkal to amusing things. If two males quarrel over the fact that someone "threw shit at the fan," they do not let his fists and teeth, and try to stay away from each other for so tselee will. To help in resolving the conflict comes to a wise old female, which at her age debaters have no interest, as "a man».


While waiting for the old woman, who will judge and reconcile, males can spend a few days, "not talking" and not touching the subject of the dispute, to whom may be, for example, food or a good place to nest. About the same two years, the human man can sue for a place in the garage.


Mature female first comforting or soothing konfliktera one, then another, and then takes over the first leg and the second is to make peace. Reconciliation originally recorded - two male synchronously stroked back to the judge. The court is over, everyone goes nice and joyful. On the subject of the dispute plaintiff and the defendant is quickly forgotten.

6. The monkeys know a lot about money and selling yourself

Money by itself does not represent anything of value - so, paper wrappers and bits of metal. But these useless on its chemical essence of things can be exchanged for food, toys and services. It is believed that no one in the universe, except for people who do not understand the concept of money. None but creatures that are ranked lower - some species of primates from the wild


Once the scientists set up an experiment at the Capuchins. They gave the monkeys a handful of silver discs (conditional coins) and demonstrated that in exchange for a coin animal can get something, having a real significance. For example, banana or water. A few months later capuchins learned to buy food from a person when they want to eat, and water when thirsty. Moreover, during the hours of satiety monkeys willingly took biologists coin than bananas or grapes.


Chimpanzees have known the meaning of money much faster and even learned to distinguish between denominations conditional and unconditional payment units.


But back to the Capuchins. One day, when all the test animals in a total cell already knew that some things are more expensive, and others less, one of the monkeys entered the chamber, where he kept the municipal treasury and appropriated all the coins themselves, fighting off people trying to take away from her metal production. So the monkeys made the first "bank robbery».

A few more days and Capuchins discovered the phenomenon of the sale of a favorite. Young male gave a coin female. Scientists thought fell in love and made a gift. But no, "the girl" came for the money with her partner in a sexual relationship, and then went to the window, behind which scientists were on duty, and they bought a few grapes. All were satisfied, especially biologists, to learn the basics of the beasts of the capitalist economy.

And you say, "Fly on the field went fly coin found" ...