Are baboons the next humans?
Recent studies have shown that baboons are very intelligent. For when you are at the zoo, you will have to watch out that they are not going to repeat what you have said. They can recognize and repeat four-letter-words just as easy as they can make their own monkey sounds. The baboons in the most recent study have shown us that they can signify when they were shown a word or a non-word. To even recognise these differences remark of high intelligence. With 75% accuracy they have shown us proof that they can identify up to 7.000 words.
As my own opinion of this matter I must say that baboons must indeed be very smart. Especially in the ZOO where this experiment was done. Even Darwin and his theory are of the same opinion as me. He also believe that humans are developped from apes, and since baboon is an ape specie, it must be, that they too are very intelligent. To have shown to the researchers that they could recognise these words is just a pinch of their ability to learn fast and eventually be as smart or even smarter than human beings.
I laughed so hard at the title! But interesting piece.
BeantwoordenVerwijderenI am always very interested to see studies on apes and their intelligence levels. I saw documentaries about chimps and also orang oetangs, but never knew baboons could be able to understand these things. Whenever I think about baboons I think about those weird buts they have, or Rafiki from the Lion Kig. But on the other hand, he is smart too, so maybe they knew it all along.
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