Chimpanzees show genuine reasoning and metacognition — the ability to weigh evidence, update beliefs and judge what they do or don’t know — while current AI systems do not. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/12/09/world/what-chimps-think-of-ai/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #chimpanzees #primates #artificialintelligence #ai #intelligence
Ulrike Hahn
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🐒💭 A psychologist at #Utrecht University tested #chimpanzees at #Uganda’s Ngamba Island Sanctuary in five experiments using boxes and hidden food, finding they weigh evidence and change decisions when confronted with contradictory information. The results suggest rational thinking evolved in our primate ancestors and challenges the assumption that reasoned decision-making defines humanity.
👉 https://www.sciencealert.com/chimps-can-revise-their-beliefs-when-shown-new-evidence-study-finds
#psychology #evolution #primates #science #behavior #research #animals
🐒💭 A psychologist at #Utrecht University tested #chimpanzees at #Uganda’s Ngamba Island Sanctuary in five experiments using boxes and hidden food, finding they weigh evidence and change decisions when confronted with contradictory information. The results suggest rational thinking evolved in our primate ancestors and challenges the assumption that reasoned decision-making defines humanity.
👉 https://www.sciencealert.com/chimps-can-revise-their-beliefs-when-shown-new-evidence-study-finds
#psychology #evolution #primates #science #behavior #research #animals
Jane Goodall revolutionized our understanding of chimpanzees, highlighting the threats they face, such as poaching, disease and habitat loss while emphasizing their intelligence and emotional depth. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/10/06/world/chimps-need-a-champion-afer-jane-goodall-death/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #janegoodall #chimpanzees #conservation #endangeredanimals
Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦
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What a wonderful woman. A gift to the world. Her legacy cannot be overstated.
On Jimmy Fallon’s show, she said:
“There’s so much wrong with the world today, and there’s so much need for a message of hope. Because if we all lose hope, then we may as well give up.”
RIP, Jane Goodall.
OliverUv
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Jane Goodall – a life in pictures
The world-renowned primatologist Jane Goodall has died at the age of 91
What a wonderful woman. A gift to the world. Her legacy cannot be overstated.
On Jimmy Fallon’s show, she said:
“There’s so much wrong with the world today, and there’s so much need for a message of hope. Because if we all lose hope, then we may as well give up.”
RIP, Jane Goodall.
Jane Goodall's first scientific paper was sent back to her with amendments, the editor having replaced every "he"/"she" (referring to chimpanzees) with "it", and every "who" with "which". She changed them back, refusing to mark non-human animals as inferior.
https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2015/05/27/annals-of-animals-which-get-who/
#JaneGoodall #language #EnglishUsage #grammar #PoliticsOfLanguage #pronouns #science #animals
Here's a wonderful little clip of Goodall greeting the world, chimp-style
More on pant-hooting and other chimp-related communication in these excerpts from her book "In the Shadow of Man"
https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2015/06/28/chimpanzee-pant-hooting-termiting-and-gesture/
#JaneGoodall #animals #chimpanzees #primatology #animals #books
A still from Miss Goodall and the World of Chimpanzees
Photograph: CBS Photo Archive/CBS/Getty Images
Jane Goodall with one of her research subjects in the Gombe national park in northern Tanzania, 1972
Photograph: Bettmann Archive
Jane Goodall appears in the CBS television special Miss Goodall and the World of Chimpanzees in 1965
Photograph: CBS Photo Archive/CBS/Getty Images
A still from Miss Goodall and the World of Chimpanzees
Photograph: CBS Photo Archive/CBS/Getty Images
Jane Goodall appears in the CBS television special Miss Goodall and the World of Chimpanzees in 1965
Photograph: CBS Photo Archive/CBS/Getty Images
Jane Goodall – a life in pictures
The world-renowned primatologist Jane Goodall has died at the age of 91
Scientist and global activist Jane Goodall, who turned her childhood love of primates into a lifelong quest for protecting the environment, has died at the age of 91. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/environment/2025/10/02/wildlife/jane-goodall-obituary/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #environment #wildlife #uk #janegoodall #chimpanzees
