Orangutans

Orangutans and cannibalism: The bizarre OG script for ‘Anchorman’

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Orangutans and cannibalism: The bizarre OG script for ‘Anchorman’

A plane full of news anchors crashes into a mountain, and their lives become a battle for survival against hostile predators. Eventually, they must consider — will we have to eat human flesh to survive? While this sounds like a familiar movie plot, it’s not for the movie you might expect: It was one of … Read more

Orangutans are better beatboxers than us: Is this how human speech began?

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Orangutans are better beatboxers than us: Is this how human speech began?

Monkey see, monkey groove. New research has found that orangutans (which are indeed apes, not monkeys) possess beatboxing skills as good, if not more impressive than their primate cousins — us — and it may be a huge clue to the evolution of human speech. “Humans rarely produce voiced and voiceless noises simultaneously. The exception … Read more