Chimp Cross Code

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Tue 5 Sep 2006 13:51
Chimp Cross Code - Xileno {P}
This is quite funny and sort of motoring related...

news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/tayside_and_central/5...m

Experts studying chimpanzees while investigating the evolution of human social behaviour have uncovered their ability to safely cross roads.
They said the discovery has shown chimps' ability to cope with the risk of man-made situations.

Some additonal details added to give people a clue as to what your link refers to - DD
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Tue 5 Sep 2006 14:54
Chimp Cross Code - artful dodger {P}
>>Experts studying chimpanzees while investigating the evolution of human social behaviour have uncovered their ability to safely cross roads.

Just shows you should not monkey about on the roads. Its a shame that some of our youngsters do not have the same self preservation instincts that these chimps are showing, the road death figures would certainly be a lot lower.


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Tue 5 Sep 2006 15:11
Chimp Cross Code - Lud
My daughter used to have a fine black castrated tomcat, an adventurous animal that roamed the neighbourhood even crossing the main road in front of the house late at night. I watched him once coming back across the road. He looked carefully up and down the road a couple of times before darting across, but ran straight into the front wheel of a passing bicycle, evidently not regarded as traffic, and knocked the rider off. The cat, slightly flustered but not seriously put out, scooted round the corner to gain the back gardens and cat door into the house, pursued by the furiously growling cyclist. Very funny.

He was run over in the end though, like nearly all London cats.
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Tue 5 Sep 2006 20:38
Chimp Cross Code - pksknqx
remember: look left, look right, look left again, then quickly right, then look once more left, then right again just in case
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Tue 5 Sep 2006 22:01
Chimp Cross Code - BazzaBear {P}
I'm sure you missed out a left there. Or was it a right?
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Wed 6 Sep 2006 00:47
Chimp Cross Code - Lud
Then go blinding across the road straight into a lot of spokes. Miaow already.
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Wed 6 Sep 2006 00:48
Chimp Cross Code - mk124
My GF and I were talking about how integent monkeys were (forgotten which kind) since they could be instructed by sound and vision to do diffrent tasks. The only thing was that the monkeys had nothing active to say. Humans can create conversation, monkeys can only communicate very select need like 'Hunger'.
However upon further reflection this may be flawed. Animials as simple as rodent's, like skwirrals can work out how to get through the most complex assult courses to get food, working out one step at a time. Prehapps the key was the moneys were able to process more than one step at a time within their heads.
In applying animal phycology to roads would it not be best to ask weather they looked just one direction, or both directions before proceding to cross?
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