Jan. 3rd, 2008

woolymonkey: (wtf?)
Dr Marina Davila Ross, from the University of Portsmouth and Professor Elke Zimmermann at the University of Veterinary Medicine in Hanover, Germany, studied the play behaviour of 25 orang-utans aged between two and 12 at four primate centres around the world.

Dr Davila Ross commented: "What is clear now is the building blocks of positive emotional contagion and empathy that refer to rapid involuntary facial mimicry in humans evolved prior to humankind."

Hard to keep a straight face, isn't it?

News story and giggling orang pic here.

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Last year's one-and-only resolution was to get a clarinet and learn to play it.
Done!
If you define "play" as knowing the scale of G and being able to stumble through "The Medallion Calls" and "Roumanian Horra and Bulgar".

This year I want to:
do pilates  at least 3 times a week;
play clarinet at least twice a week.

Lots of other good intentions, but am limiting myself to two actual resolutions for fear even that is more than I can manage.

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