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Scientists are increasingly convinced of “human intelligence” primates monkeys for example watching Tanzania’s chimpanzees arrange real wars for the territory, nothing in this dirty business (cruelty and treachery) no different from people.
And here the ecologists of the Rwanda Volcanoes National Park recently published data that mountain gorillas learned here fight poachers. The fact is that barbarian hunters are not despite the huge fines and even the threat of imprisonment, tens of thousands of traps and traps are installed in the park every year wild gorillas. Environmentalists spend a lot of time and money to disarm such devices.
Suddenly they began to notice that someone else was doing this. IN in the end, scientists determined that traps and traps the gorillas themselves are neutralized, not by adults, but by adolescents. As the monkey program coordinator writes about this Veronica Vecellio of the Gorillas Foundation Research Center, she had never before heard or read messages, to somewhere in Gorilla teenagers have done this.
Of course, the researcher notes, they have the largest base in the world of primates, so they were just lucky to notice it is possible that after this message in other parts of the world ecologists will reveal a similar ability of gorillas.
Surprisingly, Veronica Vecellio continues, that the monkeys at the same time not just demonstrate their mental abilities, destroying traps and traps, but even show subtle logical perspective oriented constructions. After all, they make to do this specifically for adolescents, thereby educating young people to be more resistant to barbarism on the part of people. Thereby gorillas very reasonably care about preserving their population.
