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Brother Buzz

(36,422 posts)
Tue Mar 23, 2021, 10:51 PM Mar 2021

If a monkey hoarded more bananas than it could eat....

If a monkey hoarded more bananas than it could eat, while most of the other monkeys starved, scientists would study that monkey to figure out what the heck was wrong with it. When humans do it, we put them on the cover of Forbes. - Nathalie Robin Justice

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If a monkey hoarded more bananas than it could eat.... (Original Post) Brother Buzz Mar 2021 OP
Lol monkeys cannibalize their young. Loki Liesmith Mar 2021 #1
Monkeys do have a fairly fine-tuned sense of inequality, though. BobTheSubgenius Mar 2021 #2
And Republicans put money and power before every single form of life. C Moon Mar 2021 #4
Yup SheltieLover Mar 2021 #3
That's a good one. calimary Mar 2021 #5

BobTheSubgenius

(11,563 posts)
2. Monkeys do have a fairly fine-tuned sense of inequality, though.
Wed Mar 24, 2021, 12:00 AM
Mar 2021

I saw a pair of monkeys in separate cages, doing some defined task, after which, they each got a piece of cucumber. All good.

Second time, one monkey got a piece of cucumber, while the other got a prized grape. The one that got the cucumber went off, and ended up throwing the cucumber out of the cage.

Monkeys might not take too well to another monkey hoarding bananas.

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