Scientific ape tickling


	Scientific ape tickling
JohnWaterman
6-4-2009 1:31 PM
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6-4-2009 3:31 PM
tanyamm
I thought it was cute how it held it's foot up for more.
6-4-2009 3:35 PM
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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/aa72ca50-a68b-46a3-9006-3681cc953aa9/9652413F-D7AA-4437-BE67-00C4360B800E/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://scienceblogs.com/notrocketscience/2009/06/scientists_tickle_apes_to_reveal_evolutionary_origins_of_hum.php" href="http://scienceblogs.com/notrocketscience/2009/06/scientists_tickle_apes_to_reveal_evolutionary_origins_of_hum.php" style="font-size: 11px;">scienceblogs.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://scienceblogs.com/notrocketscience/2009/06/scientists_tickle_apes_to_reveal_evolutionary_origins_of_hum.php">If you tickle a young chimp, gorilla or orang-utan, it will hoot, holler and pant in a way that would strongly remind you of human laughter. The sounds are very different - chimp laughter, for example, is breathier than ours, faster and bereft of vowel sounds</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://scienceblogs.com/notrocketscience/2009/06/scientists_tickle_apes_to_reveal_evolutionary_origins_of_hum.php">But in context, the resemblance to human laughter is uncanny</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://scienceblogs.com/notrocketscience/2009/06/scientists_tickle_apes_to_reveal_evolutionary_origins_of_hum.php"> <A href="http://www.port.ac.uk/departments/academic/psychology/staff/title,73074,en.html">Marina Davila Ross</A> of the University of Portsmouth has used these noises to explore the evolutionary origins of our own laughter</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://scienceblogs.com/notrocketscience/2009/06/scientists_tickle_apes_to_reveal_evolutionary_origins_of_hum.php">tickled youngsters of all of the great apes</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://scienceblogs.com/notrocketscience/2009/06/scientists_tickle_apes_to_reveal_evolutionary_origins_of_hum.php">to build an acoustic family tree, showing the relationships between the calls</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://scienceblogs.com/notrocketscience/2009/06/scientists_tickle_apes_to_reveal_evolutionary_origins_of_hum.php">listen to MP3s of a tickled <A href="http://scienceblogs.com/notrocketscience/upload/2009/06/scientists_tickle_apes_to_reveal_evolutionary_origins_of_hum/Chimpanzee%20Laughter%20MP3.wma">chimp</A>, <A href="http://scienceblogs.com/notrocketscience/upload/2009/06/scientists_tickle_apes_to_reveal_evolutionary_origins_of_hum/Gorilla%20Laughter%20MP3.wma">gorilla</A>, <A href="http://scienceblogs.com/notrocketscience/upload/2009/06/scientists_tickle_apes_to_reveal_evolutionary_origins_of_hum/Bonobo%20Laughter%20MP3.wma">bonobo </A>and <A href="http://scienceblogs.com/notrocketscience/upload/2009/06/scientists_tickle_apes_to_reveal_evolutionary_origins_of_hum/Orangutan%20Laughter%20MP3.wma">orang-utan</A></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://scienceblogs.com/notrocketscience/2009/06/scientists_tickle_apes_to_reveal_evolutionary_origins_of_hum.php">The tree linked the great apes in exactly the way you would expect based on genes and bodies</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://scienceblogs.com/notrocketscience/2009/06/scientists_tickle_apes_to_reveal_evolutionary_origins_of_hum.php"><div align="center"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/hG8pigpYIn0&hl=en&fs=1" height="329" width="400" wmode="opaque" quality="high" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://scienceblogs.com/notrocketscience/2009/06/scientists_tickle_apes_to_reveal_evolutionary_origins_of_hum.php">even though human laughter sounds uniquely different, it shares a common origin with the vocals of great apes</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://scienceblogs.com/notrocketscience/2009/06/scientists_tickle_apes_to_reveal_evolutionary_origins_of_hum.php"><div align="center"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/XbJQiZGXZ7c&hl=en&fs=1" height="329" width="400" wmode="opaque" quality="high" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; 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