Chimpanzees May Use Innovative Foresighted Methods to Fool HumansA team of researchers from Lund University in Sweden studying the behavior of Santino the chimpanzee at Furuvik Zoo in Stockholm has found that he uses innovative foresighted methods to fool zoo visitors.
His behavior was reported as an example of spontaneous planning for a future event, in which his psychological state was visibly quite different from that of his subsequent aggressive displays.
The new study, published in the journal PloS-ONE, shows that Santino not only gathers stones and manufactures projectiles in advance – he also finds innovative ways of fooling the visitors.
The behavior of the chimpanzee Santino is of particular interest because it is done while the humans to be deceived are out of sight. That means that the chimpanzee can plan without having immediate perceptual feedback of his goal – the visitors to the zoo – to aid in his planning. Previously, such cognitive abilities had been widely believed to be restricted to humans.
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