[UA] Crosswords and Blue Teets

[Torsten Bernhardt]

>That is a bit of a puzzler, but it reminds me of the observations of the
>"genius bonobo."  (I think it was a bonobo.)  Anyhow, some researcher
>watching some group of monkeys found that one monkey discovered how to salt
>potatoes by washing them in the sea before consumption.  Before this
>"genius," no monkey had done so.  The others picked up the behavior from
>her and soon, every monkey was doing it.

Or birds in some English town. The number of different songs you know as a 
male bird helps you pick up chicks [awful pun intended], and I've read 
about birds learning the sounds of car alarms as songs and starting to sing 
them at daybreak. Better or worse than them learning Spice Girls songs? You 
decide.



Torsten Bernhardt
Redpath Museum
McGill University
Montreal, QC
Canada


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