Scientists taught monkeys the concept of money!
Keith Chen and Laurie Santos gave capuchin monkeys a silver piece with a hole and taught them that the coins could be traded for things like fruit. After all the monkeys understood, each one was given 12 coins to spend on items like grapes and Jell-O.
To find out if the monkeys were mindlessly spending, Chen and Santos lowered the price of Jell-O and raised the price of grapes. The monkeys responded by buying more Jell-O and less grapes, just like how humans act with cash.
The monkeys were even taught to gamble and the monkeys made the same choices as a human would! Later on, observers noticed that one of the capuchin monkeys paid another monkey for sex using the specialty coins. Monkeys aren’t so different from us after all.
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pimp:
HANDS DOWN THE BEST THING I’VE SEEN ON TUMBLR EVER.
WHAT IS AIR
i cannot
I have a feeling you don’t have enough Star Wars win on your dash. :D
oh my god this is amazing
Shaking with laughter.
Oh god, I was trying so hard not to crack up during the actual show when I was there.
Eric…..
Someone said my name?
Also, I’ve seen this in person.
Shit is cash.
Ohhkay. It’s been a while. Update time.
As usual, I never update this thing but I feel like I need to do a little diary time.
Ok. So
- Ryan and I have been together for about 6 months
- DAMN 6 MONTHS?
- I love him
- He loves me
- Blah blah mushy mushy I know, but I’ve never had anyone treat me as amazing as he does. He talks to me like he doesn’t even see any of my flaws, which is also both astounding and confusing
- I’m broke, but I am happy with where I’m at
- I love my little home, and my new puppy
- MY NEW PUPPY. I GOT ONE. His name is Gambit (after the X-men obvi), and he is the cutest little chihuahua ever
- Christmas is coming up and I CANNOT WAIT. CHRISTMAS MUSIC ERY DAY!!!
- I have gotten SO MUCH BETTER with food!!! (this is a big one) I no longer binge, and I don’t eat crap when I’m not hungry anymore.
- I’ve always been a loyal gym rat (even when the food issues were BAD), but I’ve been beast moding even harder lately and it’s showing! I rarely weigh myself but when I do, I’m not hating the numbers (which is AMAZING), and I’m def more toned overall
So aside from being too broke to do much, I’d say I’m in a happy place right now :)












