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fromwww.scientificamerican.com
2 weeks ago

Do apes have an imagination? A new study suggests Kanzi the bonobo did

Amalia Bastos first met Kanzi the bonobo in 2023. Bastos was starstruck, she recalls: Kanzi was famous for learning how to communicate with humans using a keyboard of symbols. Upon first seeing Bastos, Kanzi immediately pointed at her and another scientist. Then the ape pointed to his lexigramsthe symbols he used to communicateselecting the icons for chase and tickle. The two researchers obliged, pretending to chase and tickle each other.
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fromPsychology Today
4 weeks ago

A Deep Dive Into Why Joy is Essential, Who Feels It, and Why

Rapid, short-lived 'woo-hoo' joy and longer transcendent joy occur across diverse animal species and likely evolved as adaptive emotional states.
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fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

How the Search for Meaning Helps and Hurts Us

Humans' language-driven overgeneralization causes psychological difficulty; animals avoid this through limited verbal labeling, enabling them to move on.
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