http://www.exn.ca/news/video/exn2005/03/22/exn20050322-chimp.asx
I saw this little clip on one of daily planet’s japan week specials and really wanted to see it again. Luckily i found it on the internet. Some really mindblowing research going on here. Do watch the whole thing.
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Chimpanzee’s that do math<<<
so there’s still some hope left for some guppies 
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^ Heartless creature! How can you overlook our ongoing effort? 
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Some chimps can be sofisticated too. They can learn, they can conclude.
Ignorant people like me often say they are inferior to human beings as they are different.
But how different? The fact is, the human genome – the total amount of genetic information, unique to each of us, wrapped up inside the packages called chromosomes contained in each and every one of our cells – is almost 99 per cent identical to that of the chimpanzee our nearest primate relative. And what we know about the impact of this diminutive percentage is about to change radically. Scientists working at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Washington University have already sequenced the chimpanzee genome (or Pan troglodytes, to give the species its proper name) and the results of a comparison they are now making with the human version of this genetic recipe are imminent and potentially explosive.
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^ Glad you realized you are not very different from them. :p
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so, now…( 
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I thought you were talking about NRIs in the US on H-1......
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There was an article in the Guardian some time last week concerning Chimps that had become addicted to smoking. There was one who was sexualy frustrated, annother whos partner had died and was consequently grieving - and a third I fail to remember.
Interesing, although it stands to reason that nicotine should be as addictive for Chimps as humans it was the phychological reasoning behind the addiction that intregued me.