• @YamahaRevstar
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    451 month ago

    Oh, shit. Good thing my boss is a chimpanzee.

    • @scarabic
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      31 month ago

      I mean… a lot of Bonobo behavior would be inappropriate in the workplace.

      • @YamahaRevstar
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        31 month ago

        Probably less racist than my Gen X conservative boss though. Probably smarter and more efficient too.

      • southsamurai
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        31 month ago

        I dunno, I think an increase in mutual oral activity would help most jobs

    • Flying SquidOP
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      31 month ago

      Chimpanzees and bonobos are separate species. Your boss cannot help you. You’re on your own.

      • @YamahaRevstar
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        221 month ago

        I know. That’s what makes my joke good.

        • Flying SquidOP
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          141 month ago

          Thank you for recognizing I couldn’t tell something and pointing me in the right direction. You would make a good bonobo.

  • @Adalast
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    51 month ago

    So Bonobos have more capacity to judge the topical authority of people than most people do. Very interesting.

  • @[email protected]
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    21 month ago

    We should put one and a human handler in the white house to see how knowledgeable the new admistration is.

  • @7uWqKj
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    -431 month ago

    “They can tell” implies "they can speak“. No they can’t. #Clickbait

    • @[email protected]
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      271 month ago

      “They can tell” implies "they can speak“

      That… isn’t what that phrase means in English. I assume you’re new to the language?

      • @7uWqKj
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        -261 month ago

        I’m not, and I’m perfectly aware of the ambiguity of “tell” meaning both “understand” and “communicate”. But so is the person who wrote that clickbait title.

    • Flying SquidOP
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      241 month ago

      If I’m choking, I can sure tell people about it despite being unable to speak.

    • @Carrolade
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      131 month ago

      Colloquially, in English, “I can tell that…” directly translates to “I can discern/detect that…”. An example would be in a game of poker, “I can tell that you’re bluffing”.

      The ability or desire to communicate what you have become aware of is irrelevant.

    • @ieatpwns
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      81 month ago

      Let me guess humans are the only intelligence on the planet too huh

      • Flying SquidOP
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        81 month ago

        Not the ones who use sign language, apparently.

        Or at least they can’t tell you anything.

        • @yesman
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          11 month ago

          This isn’t intended as a correction, more of a relevant FYI:

          Primate’s ability to sign has been wildly overstated. Koko the Gorilla was a lot closer to a chicken playing tick-tack-toe than Cesar from Planet of the Apes.

          Like the chicken, Koko’s ability seemed dependent on the presence of her trainer. For example, her trainer would often explain that a nonsense word or sentence that the animal signed “rhymed” with what that she intended. Of course “rhyming” in sign language is a thing, but it works completely different than it does in speech.

          Chomsky was right, language is human firmware and cannot be taught to our cousins. The history of our effort to do are mostly stories of animal abuse peppered with some human tragedy.

          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7wFotDKEF4

          • Flying SquidOP
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            31 month ago

            I wasn’t talking about non-human primates in the first place, but I do not disagree with you.

          • @[email protected]
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            123 days ago

            Oh, come on! Yes, that’s true, but this isn’t about language. It’s about communication, but not language. Bonobos pick up on our subtle tells, if we are unaware of something, it’s entirely possible that’s because they can smell our emotional state. That’s how dogs know. Animals aren’t stupid, just extremely limited and surprisingly alien.