scientists make orangutans giggle

[woolymonkey]

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.

Comments

[porridgebird.livejournal.com]

How cool is that!!

the building blocks of positive emotional contagion
Now there's an idea whose time has come :)))