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Chimpfluencers Stick Grass in Their Ears and Butts in Latest Viral Trend

• gnabgib 1y ago
  This came up in 2014 (61 points, 26 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12946505 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12946505
  • Natsu 1y ago
    "Monkey see, monkey do" as they say.
• abejfehr 1y ago
  gracias
  • IAmBroom 1y ago
    Underrated.
• bitwize 1y ago
  Ah, the old "Ass Grass" Challenge.
• readthenotes1 1y ago
  This explains so much about us.
• kelseyfrog 1y ago
  The chimpfluencer market is severely limited. We SWOT-ed it in 2022 and found the biggest weakness we uncovered was the lack of financial fluency in the sector.
• aaronbrethorst 1y ago
  this reminds me of the viral endangered teen Hawaiian monk seal challenge: stick an eel up your nose. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/dec/06/hawaiian-monk-seal-eel-stuck-up-nose-why https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/dec/06/hawaiian-mon...
  • pcthrowaway 1y ago
    Also Orcas wearing fish hats: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salmon_hat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salmon_hat
    • gs17 1y ago
      > One hypothesis is that orcas wear salmon hats to display high food availability, or that the same individuals that originally started the trend revitalized it. Just like humans, 80s nostalgia is going strong.
• Obscurity4340 1y ago
  > "Yet, when selection pressures relax (e.g., due to systematic provisioning in captive care), chimpanzees may extend their social learning occasionally to behaviors without direct instrumental utility." Its expensive and time-sucking to be poor