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Some Chimps Are Putting Grass in Their Ears (2014)
- yousry 10y agoDid a doctor check the ears. Perhaps it is a contagious ear infection and the straw is a primitive replacement for a surgical drain to remove the pus.
- amelius 10y agoOr they were just trying to fool the behavioral biologists.
- jschwartzi 10y agoWhen I was at university, I was told a story that some of the chimps that were kept in the primate house at the school started popping the collars on their shirts after they saw humans doing the same thing. And yes, the chimps had clothes, and toys.
- puranjay 10y agoI can't upvote this joke enough!
- rangibaby 10y ago?
- mmlb 10y agoI think puranjay interpreted the snippet as a joke referring to college students in fraternity as the "primates in a primate house".
- jschwartzi 10y agoIt's not a joke. This is a thing that happened.
- Chris2048 10y ago"primate house at the school" hmmm....
- geooooooooobox 10y agowell not surprising, I mean try explaining to any organisms studying humans as to why we(humans) take so many selfies....for no particular reason....
- trentmb 10y agoI use qtips in my ear canal (even though i shouldnt) because it feels awesome. Maybe the chimps get a similar feeling?
- jobigoud 10y ago> because it feels awesome OK. Is this a studied phenomenon? It just feels normal to me, but my girlfriend is having much stronger reactions to it, like she's pleasuring herself. It's weird. (She has playfully used the term "ear orgasm"). Maybe there's a bundle of nerve ending beneath there. On my side if I touch a specific spot in the left ear it makes me cough for some reason.
- kiddico 10y agoI've got the same ear cough phenomenon. It's like my brain lost track of where it left all it's nerves, and when it gets a signal from one it lost track of it just does it's best. For some reason it's decided ear ~= throat.
- zhte415 10y agoGo to a hospital and find an ENT ward. Ear, nose and throat, very interconnected. Otorhinolaryngology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otorhinolaryngology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otorhinolaryngology
- lgas 10y agoThe traditional term is "eargasm".
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- nevster 10y agoI immediately thought they may be copying humans who seem to all have these white things trailing from their ears...
- wiredfool 10y agoThe Orcas in Puget sound do something similar with kelp, draped across their dorsal fin. Helpfully enough, it's called 'kelping'. There doesn't seem to be a point, other than style.
- mark_integerdsv 10y agoSo? Some Orcas are fabulous, get used to it.
- dharma1 10y agoIn-ear grass is so 2014. But still beats AirPods
- gulpahum 10y agoSome monkeys are also flossing their teeth and teaching it to their children. Smart animals. http://www.allaboutwildlife.com/2009-10/monkeys-teach-their-young-to-floss-teeth/3148 http://www.allaboutwildlife.com/2009-10/monkeys-teach-their-...
- spamm0r123 10y agoSome chimps are putting grass on top of their head and paint their face orange.