What apes can tell us about the origins of teasing
Science Weekly
The Guardian
4.2 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 15 February 2024
⏱️ 16 minutes
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| 0:55.0 | Mull-a-light, get the good going. You don't need to have children or even siblings to know what it's like to be teased. |
| 1:12.0 | You know, it's probably familiar to many of us with the kinds of lovingly messing around |
| 1:18.0 | with someone else within you know a friendship a relationship some type of close relationship you have than another. |
| 1:24.5 | We all know people who find it hilarious to prod and poke, pinch and tickle, or do any of those |
| 1:30.4 | other fabulously annoying things, all in the name of fun. But are humans the only ones to tease each other or are other animals in on the act? |
| 1:41.0 | So we were trying to find this space in the middle where apes are kind of doing things |
| 1:45.7 | interacting with one another. They're not fighting, they're not sleeping, they're not |
| 1:50.2 | grooming, but they're also not sort of wrestling in a very active play |
| 1:55.9 | context. After watching 75 hours of footage of great apes, scientists have |
| 2:01.4 | concluded that they're just as keen on winding up their |
| 2:04.3 | friends and family as we are, and the behavior could date back 13 million years. |
| 2:10.7 | I like to say that what we're trying to do is to build a serious science of being |
| 2:16.1 | non-serious. And I think the question of when and why should you be non-serious or should |
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