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Scientific sensation: chimp able to read The Sun"Oxford (dpo) - Are our animal relatives more intelligent
than we had previously thought? Scientists from the Oxford
Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology have
now succeeded in teaching a 15-year-old chimp how to read
and understand The Sun. Having read the paper, Coco the
chimp, who takes about 30 minutes for a complete edition,
is able to correctly reproduce the content of every single
piece of news. PETA activists have been criticizing this
experiment as animal torture.
“Up to now, we were convinced that chimps cannot read”,
primatologist Lydia Luncz explained, “All trials including
children’s books, texts written in Simple English and even
other newspapers failed. However, the unique combination
of short words and emotional imagery we find in The Sun
enables the chimp’s brain to cognitively process written
information, although it is of course built in a much
simpler way than a human brain.”
With the help of sign language, Coco can correctly reproduce
all of the celebrity rumours and inflammatory articles
on migrants, as well as wild speculations about the coronavirus.
However, not everyone is quite as enthusiastic about
Coco’s amazing abilities. Activists from animal rights
organisation PETA have been demanding an immediate stop
to the cynical experiment. They classify the test as an
exceptionally severe case of animal torture – unforeseeable
long-term psychological effects included.
Primatologists from the Oxford Institute of Cognitive and
Evolutionary Anthropology have been able to dispel these
concerns though: test chimp Coco has been refusing to read
The Sun for a few days anyway. He has unmistakably signalled
that the paper is no longer meeting his intellectual needs
as the articles use the same thinking pattern time and
again and incidents are reported in an unnecessarily
exaggerated and over-the-top style. Also, the occasional
half-naked girl in the paper is decidedly not hairy enough
for his taste.
According to the institute, Coco is now increasingly
indulging in another favourite pastime of his: throwing
his own faeces about."
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