Click image for more cuddles …

Experiments with baby apes have shown that they prefer fake furry mothers with no food over fake non-furry mothers (just a bleak wireframe model) that offered food.

So we primates need warmth, closeness and love more than anything else when we are small and vulnerable.

Nature is not just cruel, it also knows the benefit of love.

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New Scientist: Bad boys can blame behaviour on their hormones

Sometimes I wonder how little we know about ourselves – or how little we integrate scientific insights into our daily lives?

Instead we are more influenced by simple urges and chemistry we like to admit or like to deal with. Aggressive and anti-social behavior is often tolerated or brutally suppressed with even more violence.

Emotional Intelligence should be as normal as treatment for “bad chemistry”. We do treat depressions much more willing than aggression, because we still consider aggression a “good” character trait in boys and good canon fodder for the military.

One of the greatest Stars of our time recently celebrated his 75th Birthday – Cheeta from Tarzan. He played that charming ape friend of Johnny Weismüller’s in all the Tarzan movies in the 1930s and 40s. And he even got his own Star on Sunset Boulevard. Wow!

And as chimp he is extraordinarily, because their usual  life expectancy is only about 40 years. So Cheeta, you are the real King of the Jungle!

More? Cheeta @ Wikipedia

You know that ugly, terrible, totally annoying and nerve wrecking itch right between your crotch and your butt – and you are on the street or in a meeting. So you can’t whip down your trousers and simply scratch it or ask some other human to do that for you.

Chimps can. Mutually grooming, scratching, caring and cuddling is an important part of their – and many more primates – favorite social event.

I wish we would be more social like that. Our human culture could use some more backslapping, cuddles and scratching …

Documentary / Channel 4 / 55+ minutes

It’s always good to check from time to time who you are and who we are. Some nice insights about humans, apes, brains and our heritage in this documentary.

We share 96% of our DNA with Chimps (or even 99% according to another study) and a similar amount with many other primates. But we still treat our closet living relatives like shit and many primates face extinction from us.

We should establish a new status in our legal and scientific. Primates should no longer be classified as animals, but subhumans or sentient beings – and have almost human rights and most of all protection.