Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Bonobos Together: Apes, Jokes, Interspecies-Wiki-Virtual-World-Graphy

I was wondering today about Bonobo chimpanzee jokes. What are some? Please write them in the comment section below if you know any.


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Here's primatologist and Bonobo-researcher Sue Savage-Rumbaugh in a TED Talk entitled "Apes that write, start fires and play Pac-Man" - ted.com/index.php/talks/susan_savage_rumbaugh_on_apes_that_write.html. She does joke here that Bonobo are much like humans in their great interest in sex. This talk is funny, inspiring, balanced, edifying and compassionate.


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I'd like to examine how Bonobo chimpanzees in the Congo might engage in forms of INTERSPECIES-WIKI-VIRTUAL-WORLD-GRAPHY. {Here are thoughts about ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy ~ http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2009/01/eliciting-resting-neurochemistry.html}. Just as Koko, the mountain gorilla in Woodside, California, has learned more than 1,000 signs and can understand more than 2,000 words in English, might Bonobo begin to wiki {edit web pages of (ape-graph to?) [practice apography?] a Congo-Bonobo-Wiki-Virtual-World}, using a similar logographic-sign-language approach to Koko's, as well as wiki-virtual-world-build the world they live in, in a virtual world?

I would also like to find people interested in co-creating specific Bonobo habitat, as place, in a virtual world, with Bonobo.

Interspecies wiki-ing will open fascinating new avenues in ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy.

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