Juvenile great apes love to tease and annoy their elders, study finds
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#2Our teachers used to admonish us "no monkeying around" and "no horse play". The literal connection for the first was pretty obvious, even to us north american kids, but I was in my twenties before I learned that the latter refers to geldings' preferred method of play: biting little bits of fur off each others' faces.
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#3i've also seen this behaviour in rats, cats, and dogs. it's the cutest thing ever.
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#4> From 75 hours of footage taken at San Diego and Leipzig zoos, scientists documented 142 clear instances of great apes teasing their compadres
Less than 2 teases per hour! I wish some juvenile homo sapiens I know were that well behaved.
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#5Having a part-grey-beard manager role of a team with junior software engineers, I can attest that this is true hahahahaha! :)
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#6Oh, I have also seen this with the juvenile great apes in my family.
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#7Looking at my teenager kid and his friends, I question whether teenagers are actually human...
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#8>If, for instance, a young ape teases another and the second one does not respond, it tells the first individual how far one can go with the second individual, providing vital information about growing up within a social group and establishing hierarchies.
Will apply this at workplace.
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#9> From 75 hours of footage taken at San Diego and Leipzig zoos, scientists documented 142 clear instances of great apes teasing their compadres Less than 2 teases per hour! I wish some juvenile homo sapiens I know were that well behaved.
The article indicates that you might have to react sooner, for them to stop sooner.
I remember when I was younger, and I did that, but because I was their third child they were kind of already annoyed, so my parents' reaction was immediate and usually quite shouty.
I do find it adorable seeing these juveniles annoy the elderly.
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#10Oh, I have also seen this with the juvenile great apes in my family.
The only peace in this family of apes is when them big brother ape and the little brother ape are in different places.
Sigh.