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Nowhere in this article are any secrets revealed. It's the second article from BBC with misleading title this week. I will avoid next time.
by leaveyou 12y ago
Nowhere in this article are any secrets revealed. It's the second article from BBC with misleading title this week. I will avoid next time.
- paublyrne 12y agoIt says the secret is that they lie down, whereas monkeys do not, and - consequently - do not sleep as well.
- logfromblammo 12y agoWhat a cunningly well-hidden secret! I shall attempt it myself at my earliest opportunity! But wait! Surely there are multiple possible orientations and degrees of freedom for a horizontal human body? Even collapsing left-right symmetries, there is still a half-circle of potential orientations between supine and prone. And even that ignores the multiple possible limb orientations. Obviously, more research is required. Also, if the monkeys sleep lightly for fear of predators, I wonder how thoroughly the researchers disguised the human presence for the monkeys held in captivity. Both chimpanzees and humans are, after all, known predators of monkeys.
- sitkack 12y agoI'd put dress clothes on monkeys and send them coach to the other coast where they are to give a presentation to other monkeys on how best to convince a third set of monkeys to buy brand x bananas. And if they do sleep, it will definitely be sitting upright.
- bryanlarsen 12y agoIt's standard science reporting. Science rarely gives a firm answer; firm answers in science reporting is usually a sign of bad reporting.
- cdelsolar 12y agoThe article also misused "begging the question".
- aptwebapps 12y agoWe had this argument already. I think 'bane won, but you may disagree. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3592345 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3592345