Simians are people too

by Luke Rodgers on July 4, 2008

First we have spear-fishing orangutans, then Spain passes legislation affirming that great apes are entitled to human rights, and now scientists have showed that monkeys can count.

I think it’s about time we retired the idea that humans possess some sort of special intellectual powers that are radically different from those of other animals. Hopefully events and discoveries such as these will continue to push us in that direction.

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