Some humans eat nettles. So do some gorillas. This report looks at twelve gorillas and a small portion of their gastronomic experience with nettles: “An experimental study of nettle feeding in captive gorillas,” Claudio Tennie, Daniela Hedwig, Josep Call, and Michael Tomasello, American Journal of Primatology: Official Journal of the American Society of Primatologists, vol. […]
The Ig Nobel Prize-winning “invisible gorilla” guys have a new book coming out. The book is about con men — about how (1) everyone can get conned, and (2) anyone can learn to not get conned so often. Dan Simons and Chris Chabris‘s new book is called Nobody’s Fool: Why We Get Taken In and […]
Of the approximately 330 million people in the United States of America, only one is known to have personally applied Gorilla Glue as a hair-styling substance. After that person shared her innovation in a TikTok video which became very, very popular, one university showed public-spirited quick thinking. Rutgers University issued a press release that immediately […]
Output takes center stage in this new study of what some gorillas left behind: “Daily Defecation Outputs of Mountain Gorillas (Gorilla beringei beringei) in the Volcanoes National Park, Rwanda,” Elie Sinayitutse, David Modry, Jan Slapeta, Aisha Nyiramana, Antoine Mudakikwa, Richard Muvunyi, and Winnie Eckardt, Primates, epub 2020. (Thanks to Damien Caillaud for bringing this to […]