5 fascinating facts about the symbol of 2016 - a monkey

1. Endowed with human rights h2> For the past 7 years the great apes - chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans - in Spain shall enjoy the rights to life and freedom on a par with ordinary Spanish citizens.

Freedom was given to monkeys efforts of the deputies of the Socialist Party, supported by the Communists. Against this resolution were conservative Democrats from the "People's Party". Thus the civil rights received 315 monkeys that were kept in zoos in Spain. Release them from the enclosure to the street parliamentarians did not dare, for obvious reasons: to have someone to care. But now it is forbidden to sell and buy monkeys to carry out medical experiments on them, and use of primates in circuses.

At the same time it stated that the conditions of their detention in zoos must be improved: the cells and cages do more extensive and comfortable.

2. Pumped lips h2> Monkeys long before modern beauties learned lipstick and make plastic. In this case particularly adept snub-nosed monkey from the Old World monkey family. But unlike the people themselves do not lip females and males!



When starting during the mating season, from the dominant alpha male lips swell as some of pop divas, take half his face and turn bright red. This is a sign that the hairy gentleman ready for amorous pleasures. Females in this start to go crazy. At the same time, the older and more experienced womanizer, the redder and more in his lip. But the males of the tribe have a lower social status, avoid twisting novels, and lips have become thin and pale.

3. Speak a foreign language h2> By the way, the great apes no sillier than some of us. American scientists who conducted experiments with chimpanzees, gorillas and bonobos, found that those perceived by the ear a few thousand words. And can be used to communicate with people up to 1000 characters intermediary language. Larynx primates are not adapted to articulate speech, but they can communicate with us by gestures - with the help of sign language.

The most talented monkeys (those who communicate with people from infancy) have a vocabulary of middle school graduates - from 2,000 to 5,000 words. And some of you know, and strong language. When the gorilla Mike broke his favorite doll of her friend Coco, she gestured, "You dirty, poor bathroom." I swear shorter.

A striking example of the linguistic abilities of primates became a story that happened in Izhevsk Zoo, where in Germany on an exchange program brought four African mandrill. Between humans and apes originated the language barrier. German monkeys do not understand what they want from the Russian officers. As a result, the latter had to go through German courses.

4. Love cooked meal h2> Chimpanzees know a lot about high cuisine and well versed in cooking. These conclusions were biologists from the Royal Society of London. In one of the experiments, chimpanzees received potato tubers. At the same time they had a choice: to eat raw potatoes, but now. Or take them to the kitchen and wait until the cook fried potatoes. So, our relatives always chose the second option. And the fact that they preferred to "delayed gratification" indicates gourmet tendencies chimpanzees.

In another case, monkeys suggested two containers - with raw and cooked food. The crude was easier to get. And to get to the dishes, it was necessary to work as it should. All the monkeys given up on semi-finished and started to produce bread in the sweat of his brow.

5. Ready to build capitalism h2> Once the biologists decided to see whether monkeys to understand the nature of monetary relations. Earn money our smaller brothers as follows: in the aviary was set lever. To pull for him, I had to make considerable efforts, however, the scientists immediately pay wages. They were plastic circles that can then be exchanged in a special little window on a sprig of sweet grapes.

When monkeys have realized what was happening, they were built in a few weeks ... the modern capitalist society. There were enterprising fellow who pulled the lever to exhaustion (record - 185 times in a row) and the vine became millionaires. They immediately flew bandits who wanted to work but were prepared to take away the plastic money. There was a layer of parasites that are not robbed and did not work, but preferred to beg alms from the rich.

Soon some samochki discovered the phenomenon of selling love. In the pack were young males, whose status had no right to enjoy the favors of the fair sex. But they received a coin from the ladies all wanted. Those, in turn, immediately merchandised coin primatologists have to give the grapes after the act of mating. "We did not expect that the monkeys as quickly mastered the basics of economic relations", - says biologist.



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