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Natural World: The Chimpcam Project

By BBC 2
Added: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 00:00:00 UTC

Via Atheist Media Blog
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66oPUyRd0QM

How does a chimpanzee see the world? A research project at Edinburgh Zoo is designed to answer just that question in an innovative new way - by training chimps to use video touch screens and giving them a special chimp-proof camera. How will they react to tools which in evolutionary terms are a few million years ahead of them? As chimp specialist Betsy Herrelko finds out, trying to communicate with chimps using video technology has its trials and tribulations.


TAGGED: BEHAVIOR, EVOLUTION, TV

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