actually i've always been kind of curious as to what would happen if animals had human intelligence and the ability to communicate. equal rights and all that.
Most of us would accept them into our society, but some people would say its against the bible and some weird people in the south would kill and eat them.
Pretty much the same thing with aliens and if we hard stuff like in Greg The Bunny with puppets running around or in Rodger Rabbit with toons.
A foal is an equine, particularly a horse, that is one year old or younger. More specific terms are colt for a male foal and filly for a female foal, but these terms are used until the horse is age three or four. When the foal is nursing from its dam (mother), it may also be called a suckling. After the young horse has been weaned from its dam, it may be called a weanling.
After a horse is one year old, it is no longer a foal, and is called a yearling. There are no special age-related terms for young horses older than yearlings. When young horses reach breeding maturity, the terms change: a filly over the age of three (four in horse racing) is called a mare and a colt over the age of three is called a stallion. A castrated male horse is called a gelding, regardless of age. (There is no specific term for a spayed female horse, they are simply "spayed mares".)
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I always thought it'd be awesome if chimps could be trained from birth to sign and stuff
like, a simian culture formed that could communicate with humans, interact and all that
I mean, after many generations of signing and interacting, I wonder how much smarter they'd get
These two anthropologists, husband and wife, in the 70s, had a baby, and they brought a baby chimp into their home at the same time and raised them like brothers. The chimp learned some signs, and even how to say three words. The baby began speaking chimp. They discontinued the experiment.
I will come back and update this when I find the specifics. I have a poor memory, and some of these details may be slightly off.
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All the sigs and avatars of this show have made me go "huh?" and thus led me to this thread. I am going to watch this soon and uh, see if I like it. The amount of positive feedback from people on SE++ has only made me more confident in doing so.
did the chimp tear the kid in half at any point? chimps will do that
'discontinued the experiment'
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Okay, I'm looking at my copy of "The Dragons of Eden", and Carl tells the story of Beatrice and Robert Gardner, and the chimp Washoe, who was actually female. There's nothing in here about their kid, or if they even had one, but it's immediately preceded by an anecdote about a baby and a chimp raised together. However there's nothing there about the baby learning to speak chimp. Roger and Deborah Fouts had a kid who learned a lot of signs from Washoe, though. Hm.
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Okay, the chimp who was raised with a kid and could say a few words was a female named Viki, raised by Keith and Katherine Hayes, and after seven years she could say "mama", "papa", "cup", and "up". Let me see what it says about their kid...
edit: Okay, it seems they didn't have a kid. So I guess I was conflating the Gardners and the Hayeses and the Fouts, and the kid learning signs became learning speech.
But the truth is still amazing! That chimp could say four words with her mouth. And now chimps and gorillas learn sign language all the time. We truly live in an amazing world.
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Most of us would accept them into our society, but some people would say its against the bible and some weird people in the south would kill and eat them.
Pretty much the same thing with aliens and if we hard stuff like in Greg The Bunny with puppets running around or in Rodger Rabbit with toons.
Seriously. Intelligence is all we've got going for us. Imagine if, say, bears were as smart as us. we'd be fucked
like, a simian culture formed that could communicate with humans, interact and all that
I mean, after many generations of signing and interacting, I wonder how much smarter they'd get
We've got opposable thumbs.
We can manipulate things bears can't.
ALTERNATIVELY: We will beat the intelligent bears in thumb wrestling.
smart enough to realize they can tear your jaw off your face and go through your wallet before you can scream for help
god damn it Mysst
I'm just saying, a simian ruler of a nation would own
nevermind
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KXf3kwjKQ0&feature=related
Rarity just went up a lot in my book
Pinkie Pie's still best pony though
Luna's been around many, many years too.
I just saw this thread and proceeded to marathon all the episodes on youtube. I am officially a fan.
I'm going to be anime famous
And we're about 24 hours away from the new Pinkie Pie episode going up on Youtube, give or take a couple hours.
When Pinkie gets an excuse to toss even more candles on a cake, she'll take it.
This is correct. At four years of age fillies -> mares and colts -> stallions
your face
diplomatic immunity
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These two anthropologists, husband and wife, in the 70s, had a baby, and they brought a baby chimp into their home at the same time and raised them like brothers. The chimp learned some signs, and even how to say three words. The baby began speaking chimp. They discontinued the experiment.
I will come back and update this when I find the specifics. I have a poor memory, and some of these details may be slightly off.
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'discontinued the experiment'
edit: Okay, it seems they didn't have a kid. So I guess I was conflating the Gardners and the Hayeses and the Fouts, and the kid learning signs became learning speech.
But the truth is still amazing! That chimp could say four words with her mouth. And now chimps and gorillas learn sign language all the time. We truly live in an amazing world.
He replid no and asked if we knew mephisto. She said no.
So later I asked her if she knew twilight sparkle. She said yes and started talking about how she's read all the twilight books. :?
This.
My.
God.
Why can't I get my obsessed-with-cooking girlfriend to watch this show? Then maybe she'd make ME some Baked Bads. =/
But a crabby patty is pretty much a standard burger
Plankton will hear you.
and then someone made it