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  • Dried Chimpanzee Dung
     OP - October 08, 2013, 06:46 PM
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    This week, the Professor of Ignorance John Lloyd and his curator Humphrey Ker welcome the crowd-sourcing rock star Amanda Palmer, evolutionary anthropologist Professor Volker Sommer and occult comedian Andrew O'Neill to discuss steam punk, cross-dressing, rock, sex, death, religion, humans and other great apes.


    http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03c2zwb

    In this programme, Professor Sommer leaves some chimp dung in the museum.  Why?

    Because chimp dung from different parts of Africa is different! It seems some chimps specialise in eating ants - not termites with their diets, others in other areas eat termites - not ants.  He ate ants to work out how many ants the chimps were eating.

    He then asked, are there other primates that do and do not eat certain foods on regional bases?  Yup, humans!

    He proposes that chimps have religion!  They use symbolic acts like eating something and not eating something else to mark who is a member of the group and who is not.

    Makes sense to me of the various bans on pork, shellfish, cows etc that us primates have!  Circumcision is another way to mark who belongs.
    When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.


    A.A. Milne,

    "We cannot slaughter each other out of the human impasse"
  • Dried Chimpanzee Dung
     Reply #1 - October 08, 2013, 10:09 PM
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    He proposes that chimps have religion!

    The third chimpanzee certainly does. Wouldn't be surprised if the other two do. Also, the program sounds good: "...discuss steam punk, cross-dressing, rock, sex, death, religion, humans and other great apes."
    Devious, treacherous, murderous, neanderthal, sub-human of the West. bunny
  • Dried Chimpanzee Dung
     Reply #2 - October 08, 2013, 10:22 PM
    That's interesting. Jewellery was once used to mark you as being friend or foe, why not diet in chimps?
    `But I don't want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked.
     `Oh, you can't help that,' said the Cat: `we're all mad here. I'm mad.  You're mad.'
     `How do you know I'm mad?' said Alice.
     `You must be,' said the Cat, `or you wouldn't have come here.'
  • Dried Chimpanzee Dung
     Reply #3 - October 09, 2013, 06:32 AM
    Maybe the reactions to Malala are similar "you have broken a taboo - you are not allowed to educate women, you have eaten termites - you must be punished.
    When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.


    A.A. Milne,

    "We cannot slaughter each other out of the human impasse"
  • Dried Chimpanzee Dung
     Reply #4 - October 09, 2013, 06:48 AM
    The more you look at the animal kingdom, the more you realise that not only are we not that special, we're not that evolved.
    `But I don't want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked.
     `Oh, you can't help that,' said the Cat: `we're all mad here. I'm mad.  You're mad.'
     `How do you know I'm mad?' said Alice.
     `You must be,' said the Cat, `or you wouldn't have come here.'
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